Urban Development
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Notes on Affordable Housing programme (AHP). A long thread
1/3 "The ripple effects [of a default by government backed investment companies funding urban construction projects in Kunming] would be too big," according to a credit expert cite...
Let's analyse what makes Indian roads retarded. The first thing is that the gap between the road and the pavement almost always looks like this. It may seem harmless but this is...
Puzzled by this b/c local governments have been continuously "liquidating assets" for the past two-plus decades. Their main asset is land. They sell land use rights - typically pa...
1/7 Interesting article. A researcher at CASS said at a Tsinghua forum that "What is alarming is that we have been spending a huge amount of money on public infrastructure in the c...
Baltimore's Red Line isn't the only major rail line we could see coming to the table. Besides just an east-west corridor, the city is also lacking in a truly connective north-south...
90% of Singaporeans own their own home, and though they are mostly apartments, the government works hard to ensure that they can be upgraded: https://t.co/yshJlG0tRp https://t.co...
1. Much (if not most) of China's policymaking, particularly the last two decades, has revolved around urbanization 2. Urbanization is tied integrally into land development 3. Lan...
Nigeria has over 11,000 abandoned government projects worth over N7Tr. Despite the enormous resources allocated to these projects, they have been abandoned, leaving behind half-bui...
Why did we start building high-rises instead of homes? https://t.co/79cZ82lgnk
This is Barcelona at night, one of the world's most unique cities. But why does it look like that? Well, until 1855 it was overcrowded, dirty, and diseased — then something specia...
https://t.co/T2eHKJ1PTr Just ur avg inability to think of 2nd order consequences. Parking costs space & when u mandate developers to provide it, they pass on added costs to every1...
With Trump’s “Freedom Cities” proposal in the news, I thought I would take a look back at another ambitious American urban project: Walt Disney’s EPCOT 🧵 https://t.co/QTxgP7eVNc
I went to Caojiawan Station (yes that "ghost" one) in Chongqing and was not greeted by an empty station with barren fields overgrown with weeds but beginnings of dense mixed-use Ch...
.@liyuan6 in her recent NYT article focuses on Shangqiu 商丘 as part of a broader theme of over-investment "splurge" in HSR, among others. Shangqiu was connected to the HSR networ...
Chakrabarti was elected to the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows in 2018 and named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada (RAIC) a year...
Land data is hard to find When I am looking for land to develop, I always look first to open-source maps to determine if I might run into issues Here’s a reference 🧵👇👇 https://...
Today I would like to share what I have learned about water supply infrastructure development & services in last 1.5 years. 🥤🚿🚰 It is one critical aspect in governance, whose impo...
MRT Kajang Line Stations power ranking. Thought it would be fun since the launch of MRT Putrajaya to look back at the previous MRT line. I've visited every single Kajang Line stati...
In this @EACtoPM Working Paper, Dr @ShamikaRavi, Member, EAC-PM, writes that labelling settlements as "urban" and "rural" has significant policy implications in India, determining...
these go away when cities get richer and demand for housing increases, and they exist in saint louis primarily because the population has declined about 65% from its peak the hous...
Even after 75 years of independence and over 10 government schemes, why is having a roof over one’s head still a distant dream for many Indians? Despite being a basic necessity, o...
Chennai - Coimbatore is getting a Vande Bharat. It's an awesome development which is absolutely necessary. But there's a cautionary tale about a super fast train between Chennai a...
First trip on the Elizabeth Line this week so here are the obligatory images https://t.co/hSMLFli3RY https://t.co/1hrYdKnw9W
