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October 15, 2024 By Salim Furth

Check out Alain Bertaud's Master Class lecture at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgTzaLl_qNIYou can also see the talk I gave the same day:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWwlBnNET4kPro: When you speak to architects as a practitioner, they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture and Design, video, World Tagged With: alain bertaud, India, video

Transit oriented development in Bengaluru could lead to additional $64 Million per year

September 27, 2024 By Sahil Gandhi

A new paper in the Journal of Development Economics by Liming Chen, Rana Hasan, Yi Jiang, and Andrii Parkhomenko estimates the welfare gains of Transit Oriented Development in Bengaluru. The Bengaluru metro or the Namma metro is around 170Km long including the planned sections.The evolution of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bengaluru, FAR, FSI, India, TOD

Retrospective: Sites & Services

June 26, 2024 By Alain Bertaud

The World Bank's "sites and services" generated many projects on which I spent several years of my professional life. Here's a description:Sites and services projects are government-sponsored packages of shelter related services, which range from a minimal level of "surveyed plot" to an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Development, infrastructure, World Tagged With: development, India, Mumbai

Mumbai upzoning

May 17, 2024 By Salim Furth

Geetika Nagpal's job market paper, written with Sahil Gandhi, shows that a 2017 increase in allowed floor area ratio in Mumbai had a tremendous impact on affordability by accidentally improving the economics of smaller apartments.(Note that the authors are updating the paper, so some of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: World, Zoning Tagged With: affordability, India, Mumbai, rezoning

The Human Cost of Zoning in Indian Cities

April 26, 2019 By Shanu Athiparambath

by Shanu AthiparambathYears ago, I worked for a magazine in Delhi. I wanted to live near the magazine office, but the rent was too damn high. In a low-rent area nearby, I rented a dingy room my girlfriend named “The Black Hole.” In buildings sitting across the street from mine, rents were many … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Policy, World, Zoning Tagged With: India, Mumbai, zoning

Market Urbanism MUsings March 25, 2016

March 25, 2016 By Adam Hengels

1. This week at Market Urbanism: Emily Washington described The Need For Low-Quality Housing in America's most desirable cities.People of very little means could afford to live in cities with the highest housing demand because they lived in boarding houses, residential hotels, and low-quality … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MUsings Tagged With: Chicago, India, Milwaukee, nyc

Market Urbanism MUsings: February 19, 2016

February 19, 2016 By Adam Hengels

1. This week at Market Urbanism:Shanu Athiparambath has his first post on the blog via Scott Beyer: Economist David Friedman Says India Must Go Taller to Make Homes Affordable I remember my father saying that when he visited India in the 1950s and 1960s, bureaucrats in Delhi made arguments for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MUsings Tagged With: David Friedman, India, london, Miami, Oklahoma City

Some notes on slums and free markets

June 12, 2011 By Stephen Smith

Recently I've been seeing a lot of articles about slums (the NYT on Gurgaon, India, and the Guardian on Cairo), and inevitably the phrase "free market" gets thrown around. And as it should – so-called "slums" often have very minimal active governance, and as a result they often have very dynamic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: India, slums

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