[sustran] India lives in her cities too!

[eric britton]

There is food for thought here that I can only strongly recommendation to
the members of this group. Eric Britton
 

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Transit <http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/transit-social-space/>
as a social space 

Karthik Rao-Cavale <http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/author/krc12353/>  |
September 5, 2010 at 10:25 PM | Tags: Mumbai local
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/tag/mumbai-local/> , Suketu Mehta
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/tag/suketu-mehta/> , Maximum City
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/tag/maximum-city/> , Raj Rao
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/tag/raj-rao/>  | Categories: Mumbai
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/category/mumbai/> , Needs
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/category/needs-assessment/needs-of-the-po
or/>  of the poor, Suburban
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/category/transportation-planning/suburban
-rail/>  Rail, social
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/category/social-spaces/>  spaces | URL:
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In a previous post, I had argued that air-conditioning transit is a wasteful
and avoidable expenditure that adds little to the comfort of the commuter,
and that city planners should instead seek to reduce crowding in transit by
increasing the frequency of service.  This, thankfully, is being attempted
for the Mumbai commuter rail system through [...]
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Metros
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/metros-and-social-justice-the-
case-of-mumbai/>  and social justice: the case of Mumbai 

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September 5, 2010 at 12:06 AM | Tags: Mumbai Metro
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/tag/mumbai-metro/> , MMRDA
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/tag/mmrda/> , Race Course
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/tag/race-course/>  | Categories: Equity
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/category/equity-in-planning/>  in
Planning, Metro
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/category/transportation-planning/metro/>
, Mumbai <http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/category/mumbai/> ,
Rehabilitation <http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/category/rehabilitation/>
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Amitabh Bachchan, the famous Bollywood actor, recently stirred up a
controversy when he complained in his blog about the intrusion of his
privacy due to the construction of the Mumbai Metro near his mansion
"Prateeksha" in Juhu. The city responded with anger - public interest cannot
be compromised for the benefit for one person, however [...]
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Vendors
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/vendor-are-the-security-cant-y
ou-see/>  are the security, can't you see? 

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August 30, 2010 at 8:47 PM | Tags: Jane Jacobs
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/tag/jane-jacobs/> , eyes on the
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/tag/eyes-on-the-street/>  street, hawkers
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/tag/hawkers/>  | Categories: Bangalore
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/category/bangalore/> , Mumbai
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/category/mumbai/> , Needs
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Vendors, homeless
<http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/category/homeless-persons/>  persons,
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Street vendors and homeless persons should be welcome on streets - between
the two groups, they occupy the streets at all times of the day and night,
providing stray walkers at night the security of not having to worry about
being the only person on the street. And yet, we find that governments
respond to their presence in exactly the opposite manner - Mumbai wants to
get security to keep people from "encroaching" the elevated walkways when
they could have gotten these "encroachers" to themselves serve as security -
at so much less expense and freeing up so much time of the already
overworked Mumbai Police.
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