This ought to be good. What if the “messy,” unplanned parts of cities — the slums, the informal markets, the self-built homes — are not failures, but the city’s own rough draft?
Echanove and Srivastava argue that urbanism should start with the people who shape cities every day, not just the officials who plan them from above.
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This article lumps informal transport in with private cars and app-based cabs as part of the city's problem. Seriously? Informal transport is likely the stopgap that is preventing total gridlock.
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Gurgaon: Residents of newly developed sectors along the Dwarka Expressway have written to Prime Minister and chief ministers of Delhi and Haryana, see.
Report: From 2017 to 2024, jeepney operators in the Philippines resisted a top-down "modernization" approach to transport policy, and flexed their ability to influence policy.
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80% of urban planning research fails to integrate sustainability, smart cities, and master planning.
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Chennai's transport overhaul tackles buses, trains, and cycling. The integration challenges mentioned highlight why digital coordination matters as much as infrastructure investment.
https://jfwonline.com/article/is-chennai-shifting-to-a-new-dawn-of-transport/
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Weird. The article praises informal transport for its flexibility and ability to serve nearly all, before immediately criticizing its "unplanned and unregulated growth."
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Car dependency fuels loneliness, while public transport builds community. Shared mobility fosters the human connections that individual car ownership erodes.
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In Rwanda an 82 million Euro public transport investment shows how modern mobility planning can build on informal networks rather than replace them.
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Only two-thirds of national climate plans mention public transport, and most focus solely on electrification. But you can't improve what you can't (or won't) measure.
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Author(s): Millard-Ball, Adam; Reginald, Monisha; Yusuf, Yasmina; Bian, Christopher; Ng, Willa | Abstract: Walking and cycling are the ultimate in sustainable transportation. From a societal perspective, they are practically zero carbon, and emit no harmful air pollutants. They require minimal space on the street and for parked bicycles. And it costs cities little to provide infrastructure for sidewalks and bicycle lanes. From the individual perspective, traveling by foot or bicycle is free or low cost. And it helps people integrate physical activity into their daily routines.How can mayors, city officials, and other policymakers realize this potential and encourage more people to walk and cycle in safety? This playbook uses a new source – Google Environmental Insights Explorer – to provide data-driven guidance on how to encourage active transportation in cities around the world. Based on data on walking and cycling in 11,487 cities from 121 countries across six continents, it highlights success stories from a range of geographic and socio-economic contexts, including cities whose efforts have flown under the radar and attracted little attention to date.
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