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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
Housing India
Why Mumbai Needs a Strategic Urban Design/ Ecological Master Plan
Revival of Historic cores of Cities
What Architecture means…
My big idea for cities in 2012: Cities with Shared Pod Car Systems
My big idea for cities in 2012: Making cities Sustainable
My big idea for cities in 2012: Making cities Sustainable
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The Urban Vision : Capture the BIG Picture
Big Ideas for 2012 Archive
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My big idea for cities in 2012: Transforming visions into reality…
Posted on January 6, 2012 | 10 Commentsphoto credit: SaGaR PuRo At The Urban Vision, We recognize that cities are at the heart of some of the most pressing problems the world faces today – whether it is climate change or poverty. We believe that they are also at the heart of... -
My big idea for cities in 2012: Cities with Shared Pod Car Systems
Posted on January 5, 2012 | 19 CommentsPod Cars are automated driverless vehicles that will operate on traditional roadways creating personal rapid transit systems” * use contributes to carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and hydrocarbon emissions * are expensive and if not shared typically are parked for most of there lifetime * uses of cars are... -
My big idea for cities in 2012: Social impact bonds, Outcomes-based permitting, Public Spaces
Posted on January 4, 2012 | 15 CommentsI have three ideas: . 1. Social impact bonds. Leveraging public dollars with private / nonprofit innovation and accountability. . 2. Outcomes-based permitting. Offering greater flexibility in urban design in order to stimulate private investment. . 3. Reclamation of government owned land for public space. Using vacant space (e.g., alleyways, utility... -
My big idea for cities in 2012: Integrated approach to Energy Efficiency.
Posted on January 3, 2012 | 6 Commentsphoto credit: phototouring Cities represent the pinnacle of human achievement, and we are becoming increasingly urban to the extent that we have well crossed the 50% urbanization mark in the last decade. Cities are increasingly becoming big consumers of energy. There is a never-ending demand... -
My big idea for cities in 2012: Applying “doubling factor’ to Urban Planning
Posted on December 30, 2011 | 42 Commentsphoto credit: Ray_from_LA My big idea. Work the doubling factor (Ortiz, et al) into law, engineering and architecture. Stop cities in their tracks and offer unlimited density and therby guarantee an unfragmented wilderness, or at least the potential for restoring one. Take any annual percentage rate... -
My big idea for cities in 2012: Making cities Sustainable
Posted on December 28, 2011 | 9 Commentsphoto credit: Barry & PK As an Urban Planner working for the last 5 years in small and big cities I have understood one thing that in order to reclaim the aura of Indian cities that existed in past, it is pertinent to focus on... -
My Big Idea for cities in 2012: Indian cities as a continuum of a culture and a civilization
Posted on December 27, 2011 | 11 Commentsphoto credit: rickbradley “When you know that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing, when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in favours, when you see that men get rich...
