Ganapathy St, West Mambalam, Chennai and Scripps Ranch, San Diego — I have family living in both neighborhoods. .., they ought to have something in common. For starters they both have their fair share of faux pediments supported by Corinthian capitals. Both San Diego and Chennai are short on fresh water [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Urbanization’
May 15, 2009
When Surat = Los Angeles… 9xSan Jose=Bangalore
Link to a depressing article in today’s Wall Street Journal. But why would the authors pick an extreme case like Lucknow as their case study, I couldnt quite understand… Perhaps Patna didn’t make the cut. Its like choosing Detroit as a case study to talk about neighborhood foreclosures. A bit of smelly trivia from Lucknow [...]
March 11, 2009
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 [...]
November 14, 2008
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 [...]
