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Aaj Tak says its anchors will report on Budget 2023 suspended from a tower at a height of 160 feet scroll.in/video/1042885/
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Trained Urbanist| Enjoy conversations on city building initiatives ,maps, travel and silly humour
Bangalore, IndiaJoined March 2017
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Cities that switch to priority-based #budgeting change everything. Maps every single dollar a city spends to a specific program — everything from “rodent baiting” to recycling collection — then scores each according to how it achieves city’s priorities.
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He was a legend and his rich legacy shall remain alive.For us students of architecture, he was and is an idol and a master. Today’s is a profound moment and yet this news makes all followers of architecture immensely sad as well. R.I.P sir !
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Legendary Indian architect and the only Indian winner of the Pritzker Architecture award, Balkrishna V Doshi (1927-2023), passed away today, aged 95.
A personal tribute to a person I barely knew but in whose creations I had the privilege to work in, and feel inspired (1/n)
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Actually sounded off ! Didn’t hear it last year
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Nothing ringing more true than these words: Republic Day Sale
No doubt one bit ! And please notice programming is the key.
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Today, Hawaii imports 90% of its food.
Before Captain Cook landed, the populous Native Hawaiians were entirely self-sufficient and produced more food using less land than modern Hawaiian agriculture.
Here is a quick tour.
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Apple Music chooses this as the cover for Delhi city. It’s a relief, and def a shift from the iconographic representation of the city.For me this is indeed the real Delhi.And in any case the iconic spots don’t echo the spirit of the city anyway! But Ironic isn’t it!
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Just posted a photo @ Lal Bagh Botanical Garden Banglore
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The image is strangely satisfying! In spirit, who and what wants to stick by rules anyway ?
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Imagine having an economic system where ecologically urgent and socially necessary things (renewable energy, public transit, affordable housing) are not produced simply because rich people cannot make enough profits doing so. Irrational barely begins to describe it.
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She’s bowing out, at 42! Rare & graceful in a world full of men who desperately cling to power even in their 70s, 80s & 90s, then become bitter, or demand ceremonial positions.
#JacindaResigns
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Jonathan Raban has died. His Soft City (1974) is one of the best books ever written about London and urban life more generally.
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Create opportunities for woman to work and live in the city but what do you do about the societal psyche that still considers working women a big social taboo
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via @NYTimes ok who wants to do a survey comparing landlords who do lease to single women to those who don’t??? And brokers. I want to create a respondent population on neighborhoods in some tier 1 and tier 2 cities and study associated FLFP, agency, etc. nytimes.com/2023/01/18/wor
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Looking forward to presenting findings from my book, #TheOriginsofInformality, and more recent work on informal IOs at on 6 Feb.
If you're in Bologna on that day, please join! Or, if not, you can also connect via zoom.
Info 👉 bipr.jhu.edu/events/4692-Th
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If you smell mud, it’s raining; if u smell tar, it’s elections — BBMP is working overtime to prove this adage right
📣 Happy to share my latest piece!
It discusses the hawkers and their agency as they inhabit the public space across Kolkata. It takes Oren Yiftachel’s work on gray space to understand how things work to suspend hawkers between the legal white and the non-legal black.
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Remember seeing this for some cities bombed during wwii..only seventy years and this dreadful comparison is just heartbreaking
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When the war ends, fighting in Bakhmut in Ukraine will be remembered as some of the fiercest since WW-2. New before & after images. Schools and building in Soledar in August vs all that remains now. 
:@Maxar #Ukraine
:@Maxar #Ukraine
Population density map of Tamil Nadu, India.
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Folks! We have 2 spots left on our Yelahanka Puttenahalli walk on 14th Jan. Have you planned your weekend yet? 😬🐦🦋🐞
Contact us here: wa.me/916364076683
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Excited to start the new year with our Urban Nature Walks in Bangalore city! This time around when we go walking, there will still be a wintery chill in the air, a lot more birds- we hope to find winter migrants. As always, insects and spiders!
Contact- wa.me/916364076683
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Leading this walk next Saturday, if anyone from Bangalore is interested :)
email intach@intachblr.org to register
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What an unbelievable game! #Argentina you are the #FIFAWorldCup champions. #Messi vs #Mbappe was the highlight. Messi is undisputed GOAT of his generation. Like Pele, Maradona before him ♥️
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Metro and bus systems now have systems to do real time tracking and online fare integration. What’s required as the next step is to now integrate both systems for consumer convenience
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Starting December 23, passengers can track @BMTC_BENGALURU buses on real-time basis on your mobile and pay fare through UPI apps and debit/credit cards.
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The Bangalore Literature Festival is fast approaching. Register today and be part of one of the most special gatherings of the year! Illuminating conversations and exciting activities await you on the 3rd and 4th of December, 2022.
bangaloreliteraturefestival.org/year-2022/regi
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Everything works for convenience
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Can destroying the eco-sensitive Nicobar be compensated by planting trees 2400Kms away near national capital? The government thinks so.
Beautiful story by @jayashreenandi
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Female history lovers and explorers, now what !
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Girls aren’t allowed inside Jama Masjid alone, anymore.
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Girls aren’t allowed inside Jama Masjid alone, anymore.
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Another indication on how complex the governance systems of our cities are . SPV have to embedded within the system.otherwise figuring out complexities of the system and its management gets tedious.Inaction obviously follows.What is it that we are not getting right?
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A city can not develop or become "smart" or improve liveability by creation of such institutions causing multiplicity, lack of accountability & responsibility. IMO SmartCities & many such SPVs don't have any place in a democratic setup & for urban planning and/or management
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At least now make them permeable ! What’s required also is a city guideline on how to make the right sustainable footpath
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This is how tax payers money misused and corruption takes place. Removing properly layed old culvert stones and again putting same stones to take bills @ Govindaraja Nagar Constituency.
@BBMPCOMM @BBMPAdmn @CMofKarnataka @VSOMANNA_BJP @PMOIndia plz take actions & save Bengaluru
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Not just shared autos, Blr should get mini-buses, shared cabs, black & yellow taxis, more electric AC & non-AC buses, e-rickshaws, double-decker buses, app-based bus booking facilities etc
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How Bengaluru auto drivers plan to take ‘control’ & challenge Uber, Ola with homegrown app
reports for ThePrint
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Poetry Comics Month, Day 17: Repetition
I haven't drawn a daily comic strip since college (way back in 2007 for ), so this month has been quite a challenge! I hope I'm getting better through deliberate practice.
#poetrycomicsmonth
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Not sure if this is the right comparison. Delhi is more like a city.. Would this be the case with major cities of all states?
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Animation: If every State in India lived as densely as Delhi – they can fit within the blue regions.
All of India would fit into one nice small blue area in the end.
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It’s here finally ! The much awaited
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Green Humour: Developing Nations at COP27: greenhumour.com/2022/11/develo