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By: Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:39:08 +0000

[...] I have written about it in the previous three posts. (See 1. Inclusive Economic Growth, 2. India-The Land of Endless Opportunities, 3. The Urbanization Leap.) In [...]

By: Atanu Dey on India’s Development » The Urbanization Leap

Atanu Dey on India’s Development » The Urbanization Leap — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:17:10 +0000

[...] been discussing in previous two posts (“Inclusive Economic Growth” and “The Land of Endless Opportunities.”) The argument so far: Indi [...]

By: Nidarshan

Nidarshan — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:49:18 +0000

Sabeer Bhatia’s proposed project of a ‘Nano City’ in Haryana may indeed turn out to be the first (successful) model for the kind of ‘urbanization leap’ you talk about albeit at a slightly smaller scale.

He spoke about this recently at Stanford Business School. Watch his talk at,

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/globalspeaker_bhatia.shtml

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:55:09 +0000

But aren’t the same corrupt politicians and the same selfish capitalists that are going to enter this market too and destroy things in a hurry to eat as much as possible? Or am I still thinking at the same level?

-Mike

By: Manu

Manu — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:32:39 +0000

Atanu – Let me see… SEZs?

PS On telecom – Pramod Mahajan deserves some credit for keeping government largely out of over-regulating the telecom sector. Evidence that ‘alleged’ corrupt politicians can also do good for the country.

By: Sudipta Chatterjee

Sudipta Chatterjee — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:05:57 +0000

Atanu, I remember you having said earlier that the mobile market grew naturally in India because there was money and new technology available: meaning basically it just happened because the right ingredients were present at the right time: no-one really forced it to happen. Will you say that the same is true for the development of cities as well?

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World is Green A big Green Opportunity: 600 Sustainable Cities in India « — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:48:08 +0000

[...] the problem is clear, then a solution can be presented. In a second post, he provides the opportunities that large problems create. Where there be challenges, t [...]

By: End Lands » by: shiva

End Lands » by: shiva — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:34:41 +0000

[...] ar statistic (so dubious) is 700 million live in 600000 villages. … Original post by unknown and a wordpress plugin by Elliott [...]

By: Apun Ka Desh

Apun Ka Desh — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:09:13 +0000

The Telecommunications example is a good one.

Problem is not so much with the best way to do it, but with the intention itself. You need to wake up sleeping bureaucrats to get this done. And if you want to do it on your own – a behemoth called govt. needs to give you permission to do it.

To draw an analogy – education can be improved in India fairly quickly in a similar way – but govt. and politician clutches over it – just wont allow that to happen.

By: shiva

shiva — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:30:05 +0000

Atanu, do you happen to know what proportion of the Indian land bank is rural? We know that roughly 70% of Indians live in the villages. A popular statistic (so dubious) is 700 million live in 600,000 villages. If there is a disproportionate share of rural land (say 80% is rural land vs. 70% as population) it may be easier to plan new developments in the rural areas. Of course I must avoid over-simplifying these categories. One of the ways ruralites could be persuaded to sell their land for development is to give them a stake in the enterprse that comes up on it. Why not capitalise their land and make them preference owners?

By: Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Inclusive Growth Discussion

Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Inclusive Growth Discussion — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:09:20 +0000

[...] ages. India cannot afford to live in villages; it is not that rich. [Continued at “India—the Land of Endless Opportunities“.]

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