Urban Issues
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People in metro cities:- Have to buy drinking water Dirty roads and drains Water rise upto 3-4 ft in a single rain Tap water smells like shit, looks like shit Traffic everywhere...
You hear about how bad San Francisco is. I was filming a shot of my father , Shelby Steele, and in the ten minutes we were gone our SUV was broken into and nearly $15k of cameras s...
"Virtue signaling" is an abused expression, but it's the perfect description for "I would simply have offered assistance to the mentally ill person shouting that he was going to hu...
Last night, I was driving back home. I had parked my car at airport only as it was one day trip to Delhi for a lecture for a book launch. & an incidence had almost sunk my heart....
Kolkata is a cruel city. Despite ample opportunities in last 7 decades, the Congress, CPM, and TMC have failed to address this issue. It begs the question: how difficult can it be...
This used to be a tourist lookout spot in San Francisco. People would sit, eat lunch, and take photos. Now it has a pile of abandoned trash, feces and belongings. It appears th...
Are you high? The City of Chicago had over 800 homicides in 2021, out of 1,472 in the whole state. Chicago has 2.7 million people, but Illinois' overall population is 12.67 millio...
I feel like I get to see a version of this hackneyed tweet every year around this time. https://t.co/UfQcAtPAqv
Was in Seattle recently, and it's even worse than you think. Two incidents in 10 minutes at a downtown Starbucks sum it up: 1. Homeless man walks in, pushes through line grabs a...
You want to know a quick solution for Mumbai's creaking infra issues? Move all top babus from Malabar Hill and Napean Sea Road to areas like Borivali and Vikhroli Make them comm...
Do not read this if you are easily grossed out. Last night at a party I met a woman who left San Francisco after her dog walker told her the dogs were getting addicted to meth-la...
BREAKING: NYC schools are projecting enrollment losses of 30,000 students for this Fall. Mayor Adams: โWe have a massive hemorrhaging of students โ massive hemorrhaging." Over 1...
The reason people don't care about about "walkable cities" and the urbanism push in general is because basically every public space in America ends up becoming the territory of men...
