Park and Perish

I am poorer by $118 thanks to driving in Manhattan. That would be $115 in parking ticket for misreading the distant sign,  and $3 for diligently feeding the parking meter – which conveniently will not indicate that I cannot park there during that time period. Having other cars parked in front of us certainly didn’t [...]

China Outta Control

A not-too-idyllic crystal ball projections on China’s growth in the next twenty some years. Link to the business week article by Dexter Roberts that heavily relies on projection numbers from McKinsey’s recent study.
Some Key Projection Stats from the article - China 2025
350 million rural residents(entire US population)  will leave the farm and move to cities
Chinese urban [...]

Courting the Median

I’ll leave you with images of pedestrian uses in two radically different pedestrian realm within a streetscape. One driven by desperation and other a conscious work of street design. The first one is of 11th Avenue in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and the other from the boulevard adjacent to Bibotheque Francois Mitterand in Paris. [...]

Green Washing the Glass Guzzler

The news piece in Architectural Record will make you roll your eyes looking at the title ” Chennai Airport to become India’s Greenest”…yet again. .’Green Washing’ the energy guzzler in a glass box. Not sure what these guys from Frederic Schwartz Architects, Hargreaves Associates, Gensler are smoking when talking about ‘lush’ 2-acre gardens [...]