Mobility Archive

  • What is the greatest threat to our planet?

    Posted on May 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
    This 3-minute video asks the question “What’s the greatest threat to our planet?” and explains how sustainability is embedded in the way a city is built. A city that has an urban form that is sprawled, auto-centric, low- density and is not...

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  • New Ideas For Transit In Los Angeles

    Posted on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
    Mumbai and Delhi aren’t the only places with transit headaches. In fact, the mother of all freeway cities, Los Angeles, has reached its breaking point. Just try taking the 10 freeway eastbound any day after 4 p.m. I dare you. The effects of traffic and...

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  • Automobile and the city.

    Automobile and the city.

    Posted on January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment
    “Most problems the developing world is facing become better as one gets richer. Except for transportation, it gets worse.” Enrique Peñalosa, the revolutionary urbanist and the former mayor of Bogota said to me in an Interview in Mumbai, even as the rush-hour traffic soared...

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  • Have you walked in your city recently?

    Posted on January 26, 2009 | 5 Comments
    There was a time when I used walk extensively- from my college to the office and home and to almost everywhere else. I remember always looking forward to those walks to reflect, think and relax. I am nostalgic about those times in my favourite city...

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