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Saturday, October 28, 2023

To Go or Not to Go --> (Urban Planning and the Distance Decay Function)

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The fine art of problem articulation  The important thing about mathematical urban models is not the mathematics itself but its application ...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Overcoming the fear of mathematics in planning education and practice

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A vital contradiction in our education system The former chief scientist of Airbus, Jean Francois Geneste said in a brilliant talk delivered...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Automating Planning Tasks 2 - (Programming with GRASS + Linux)

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In the first part of this blog we had discussed how the various steps of a particular planning problem (in this case the slum-proofing prob...
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...