Category: India

The economics of water: Part 3, pre-urban rules for societies

2 April, 2008 (09:59) | Cities, History, India, Infrastructure, Multipart posts, Urbanization | No comments

[Continued from the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]
 
So far in our examination of the economics of water, drawing from Duke law professor Jim Salzman’s article Thirst: A Short History of Drinking Water and looking for principles applicable to 21st century urbanization in the world’s rapidly expanding cities and the spontaneous communities that represent their […]

The economics of water: Part 2, pre-urban rules for individuals

28 March, 2008 (11:08) | Cities, History, India, Infrastructure, Multipart posts, Urbanization | No comments

[Continued from Part 1.]
 

 
In Part 1, I opened with the economics of water, using as its inspiration Duke law professor Jim Salzman’s article Thirst: A Short History of Drinking Water, and looking for principles applicable to 21st century urbanization in the world’s rapidly expanding cities and the spontaneous communities that represent their slums.  Because housing is what makes […]

Cities are interdependent

22 October, 2007 (09:10) | Cities, Ecosystems, Global news, India | No comments

Recently I was in Mumbai for a few days, meeting Jockin Arputham, head of India’s National Slum Dwellers Federation (about which more in future blog posts).  Mumbai traffic being what it is, Jockin’s principal office is his car. 
 

Life in the fast lane – if it looks like we’re not moving, it’s because we aren’t
 
We […]