The Potential City

In his classic book ' A System's View of Planning ', George Chadwick wrote: "Not only can the whole of mathematics be devel...

Have you even visited your own "Open Data" portals ? In Satyajit Ray's classic film "Jana Aranya", the character pla...

Information density at lowest levels of disagregation Let us continue the discussion on information loss and data aggregation by comparing t...

What is wrong with our land-use plans ? Well...nothing. Except, perhaps, the fact that they belong to an earlier epoch of technological deve...

The capital irony It is perhaps a capital irony of our times that precisely at the time when computers are more powerful and affordable than...

Smart in Space...Clueless on Land As India's capabilities in the field of space technologies increase continuously, the gap between the ...

I have written in earlier blogs about the trouble with GIGO (Garbage-In-Garbage-Out), which basically means that if the data that goes into...

Implementing at the cost of Planning A characteristic feature of large urban development schemes in India is that they are heavily implement...

Earlier today, I wrote the following on my linkedin status - GIS based Master Plans...it's a bit like saying pen based novels...or camer...