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Rajasthan has been interestingly serious about cleanliness and aesthetics. It's the only state where they've attempted to remove all those ugly posters and billboards in front of every business that gives a typical third world appearance. I think there are some voices in the state who want to...

It is not skyscrapers and glass Malls that will transform Indian cities at scale. If we want widespread upgradation of our cities including tier 2 and 3, we need to built such mixed use building en masse, and ensure they don't get covered in posters while the sidewalks in front of the should be...

I'm normally desensitized at this point, but this thread got me really angry. Explains why our cities fucking suck. Just a sliver of the fraud that's going on.

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Even if it's CCP propaganda, it proves my point that China's villages are still typical developing country level. In fact the point is even stronger when it's CCP propaganda, since they try to show only the best in their country. @RoaringTigerHiddenDragon

I think it's the other way around. Transformation in Asian tigers started at tier 1 cities, then spread out to tier 2s and villages. Many of the smaller towns and villages in China look like Latin America or Vietnam even today. (Ignore the clickbait title, this video is quite fascinating...

There's a process. Proper barriers are required around the debris. The whole area can't turn into a bombed out Gaza street. Every country does maintenance and construction. In better countries, a temporary wooden pathway is kept alongside the construction area for pedestrians. It's ok, 99% of...

This is related to the point about renovating existing streets that I was talking about

France is the only country where such a trend happened. Lowering emissions while still having economic growth. Nuclear works.

Guwahati airports ceiling collapsed

India needs to stick with fossil fuels or go nuclear. I've always been skeptical of these maintenance intensive but low energy solar and wind solutions. No country of any decent size has managed to go the green way through "renewables". Combined with lithium mining for batteries, these end up...

Reason why I keep harping on about traditional architecture. Look at the difference.

Ultimately it's up to state governments how their cities turn out. If they want to crack the whip, it needs to be at the CM level where they reign in their municipalities from continuing as giant corruption schemes.

This is back from when western media was actually informative and allowed contrarian views. Milton Freedman's critique of government funded free housing schemes. It's worth knowing what can go wrong when public policy gets over ambitious.

South India needs to start waking up. Apart from Hyderabad, no South Indian city is serious any more about proper urbanization and upgrades. With the rate of progress with Gift city, Ahmedabad, Surat, Noida, Gurugram, and Mumbai, there's a major possibility that South India will lose its urban...

Nothing about my post was about making anyone give up any houses. It was about regulating new buildings to match an aesthetic standard, and providing incentives for older buildings to renovate it match that same standard. In that software analogy, it is tailored for the legacy system.

Building regulations provide a cheap solution to our urban ugliness problem for a start. Don't know the practicality of this considering the corruption of our municipalities, but if we want to fix our aesthetic problem long before we get enough money to build China style cities, then having...