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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Set theory, Systems and Jaga Mission

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In his classic book ' A System's View of Planning ', George Chadwick wrote: "Not only can the whole of mathematics be devel...
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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Otto Neurath...Vladimir Putin...and the economy of real things

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Just two days ago the Hindustan Times published an article with the headline, "US Senate clears long-delayed $95 billion aid package fo...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Of Planning Tools and Synaptic Connections

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In his last book 'Disintegration' , geo-political expert Andrei Martyanov described an interesting conversation. He wrote:   "...
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...