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Shopping malls as public space in India
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The Great FSI Debate : Increasing FSI improves housing solutions
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The Great FSI Debate : Indian Cities & the Shanghai Fascination
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The Great FSI Debate: Use FSI in a holistic manner.
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The Great FSI Debate: Benefits of Urban Density
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The Great FSI Debate: FSI versus Quality of Life
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Why small towns are lagging behind?
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Live: Highlights from Indian Budget 2013 for the Urban Infrastructure Sector
28 February 2013 7:15 AM | No Comments
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Live: Highlights from Indian Budget 2013 for the Urban Infrastructure Sector
Posted on February 28, 2013 | No Comments#budget2013 #infra #Cities Live Highlights from the Indian budget for the urban infrastructure sector. [View the story " #budget2013 #infra #Cities" on Storify] -
Vinayak Bharne on “The Emerging Asian City”
Posted on November 8, 2012 | 4 CommentsVinayak Bharne is the Director of Design at Moule & Polyzoides in Los Angeles, one of the founding firms of the New Urbanism movement; and a joint faculty of urbanism and planning at the Sol Price School of Public Policy and the School of Architecture... -
Has JNNURM succeeded in addressing urban poverty?
Posted on November 8, 2012 | 3 CommentsIgnorance is not bliss! – for Small and Medium Cities towards addressing urban poverty through JNNURM Pan-India ONE solution for Urban Poverty is failing. We have seen it in JNNURM and shall see it again in Rajiv Awas Yojana. Small and Medium cities are facing the... -
Getting Started :Urban Innovations in Portland City
Posted on August 26, 2012 | 40 CommentsAs the Young Urban Leader Fellow 2012, I have the opportunity to study the metropolitan of Portland and the brilliance achieved by Portland Metro in planning, for the next two months. The intent of this fellowship is to... -
Is JNNURM about Inclusive Development?
Posted on March 17, 2012 | 9 CommentsJawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission is a flagship city redevelopment program that was launched by the Government of India in 2006. The Mission is the largest initiative of Government of India for planned development of Indian cities. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh had highlighted on the... -
Bond measures: Innovative financing and acquisition of green spaces
Posted on January 20, 2012 | 27 CommentsNancy Chase, a senior planner with expertise in natural areas acquisition, has had experience working both with Metro and smaller jurisdictions in the Portland metropolitan region. She has the unique experience of working on both a bond measure[1] that failed and those that succeeded. In... -
The early bird builds its nest: Portland’s early start for promoting natural areas
Posted on January 20, 2012 | 54 CommentsHaving been here for a few months, it started becoming evident that a lot of the Portland metropolitan region’s innovative best practices in planning and conservation — be it the bicycle movement that Portland leads the US in, or progressive land-use planning — took root... -
Karachi , Pakistan: A case on the benefits of Federated Government Structure
Posted on July 24, 2011 | 14 Commentsphoto credit: Photogeraphar 0345-3333888 Karachi, Pakistan, with its 14 million inhabitants, is the largest city by population with a federated city government structure. The federated city system was implemented in Karachi over a three-year period – from 2001 to 2003 – and... -
Urban Growth Boundaries: An important lesson for India
Posted on June 29, 2011 | 7 CommentsPortland’s transformation into one of the greenest regions/cities in the US has been a slow and steady process over the past four decades. In addition to micro-level influences such as strong community involvement, visionary and realistic planning, and substantial activism for active transportation, a significant... -
Transportation Systems Management and Operations
Posted on June 1, 2011 | 14 CommentsManaging smooth flow of traffic has been a daunting challenge in Indian cities, where not only is car use growing exponentially, but the scope of modal conflicts is larger than in developed countries. Indian roads are used by over 18 modes of transport, including non-motorised...
