Hi Jonathan,

Do send me a copy of your paper- I am definitely interested in 
it!

Bina C. Balakrishnan
Consultant
Transportation Planning & Engineering
Mumbai, India
e-mail: binac@rediffmail.com



On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 Jonathan E.D.Richmond wrote :
>
>I have just finished a paper about educating Asians to be 
>professionals in
>transport-related development work. The paper starts with a 
>review of
>educational traditions in Asia, the tendency to rote learning, 
>and
>responses from students and government. I next discuss what I did 
>to try
>to bring an active and interactive approach to teaching transport 
>in two
>masters degree courses.
>
>If anyone would like to see the draft of the paper and provide 
>comments,
>please email me. I would be particularly interested (in the case 
>of
>Asians) to hear if the charcterizations of Asian education I 
>cite
>hold true in your own country, and the extent to which 
>modernization has
>taken place.
>
>I'll also advertize the fact here that I am currently looking for 
>a new
>job -- in academia or with an appopriate agency -- or consulting 
>work. I
>returned to the States last September, and have since been a 
>Visiting
>Scholar at Harvard, where I am writing up the research I 
>conducted in
>Asia (papers on transport planning in Singapore and Bangkok to 
>follow). I
>am interested in how to bring more effective planning techniques 
>to
>Asia, and in how institutional barriers may be overcome. I have 
>also been
>active in the debate over appropriate urban transport 
>technologies, and
>am interested in system management issues, such as providing 
>better
>management of bus and rail systems. I am flexible as to location! 
>Any
>leads would be appreciated!
>
>                                                        
>--Jonathan
>-----
>Jonathan Richmond
>Visiting Scholar
>Department of Urban Planning and Design
>Graduate School of Design
>Harvard University
>312 George Gund Hall
>48 Quincy St.
>Cambridge MA 02138-3000
>
>Mailing address:
>182 Palfrey St.
>Watertown MA 02472-1835
>
>(617) 395-4360
>
>e-mail: richmond@alum.mit.edu
>http://the-tech.mit.edu/~richmond/
>
>
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