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Thursday, September 28, 2023

Data and its Non-Use

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Tackling the dynamic with the static One of the primary challenges facing the management and governance of our cities is the fact that they ...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Automating Planning Tasks - Part 1 --> (100 mb Powerpoint file Vs 3 kb text file)

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What computers were not meant to do "But in running our institutions we disregard our tools because we do not recognise what they reall...
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Smartness...without the Stutter - what India's Smart Cities Mission could be about

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An obsession with "implementation" can create problems not just for planning (which is still struggling to open its parachute afte...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Split City - have our urban missions caused multiple personality disorder in our cities ?

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I had written in an earlier blog how the urban development process in India has overcome the "plan-was-good-but-implementation-was-poo...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Open Data...or Open Disdain ? Cognitive dissonance and Urban India's Open (GIGO) Portals

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Have you even visited your own "Open Data" portals ? In Satyajit Ray's classic film "Jana Aranya", the character pla...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Disaggregation Dilemma - Part 2...(from static land-use color codes to something like OSM features indexing)

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Information density at lowest levels of disagregation Let us continue the discussion on information loss and data aggregation by comparing t...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Disaggregation dilemma - Part 1...(Of GIS based PDFs and Water Soaked Blue-prints)

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What is wrong with our land-use plans ? Well...nothing. Except, perhaps, the fact that they belong to an earlier epoch of technological deve...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

The Data exists...right under our Mouses !

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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...
Thursday, May 4, 2023

Indian Space Assets and Urban Planning

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Smart in Space...Clueless on Land As India's capabilities in the field of space technologies increase continuously, the gap between the ...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

You cannot "find" data, if you cannot recognise it

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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...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Planning and the Complexity Conundrum

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