another great read on the subject is Variations on a Theme Park. On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Radhika, Y. <[email protected]> wrote:
> history also determined the form of what we know as delhi today - 7 cities > of Delhi! and then the weird connections with New Delhi. I haven't seen > Delhi since the ring road days so would be interested in seeing what > happened to the old civil lines area that has a metro now! > Also not sure NY can be accused of homogenity. Historically the irish and > the italians and other immigrant communities had fairly strong territorial > lines, hence the neighborhoods even today. it is also debatable whether the > urban planning was truly more sophisticated - separation of use and zoning > have been held responsible for a variety of ills in the last 40 years > including sterility of the streetscape, loss of Main street (residences > above and shops below-reminds me of Chandni Chowk!), crime and isolation. A > great book on this subject is Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great > American cities (the reference point really is NY for this work). Robert > Moses, a very influential city planner in NY, singlehandedly destroyed > priceless artefacts of the past like Pennsylvania Station that rivaled Grand > central. Committed group of citizens recognized that his plans included > mowing down Greenwich village and SoHo and protests saved these two at > least! His preference for building infrastructure for private transit and > automobile rather than public transit is well documented and certainly gave > impetus to the destruction of many traditional neighborhoods, expansion of > ghettoes, urban flight. > > On the other hand, the landscape planning in NY, thanks to the influence of > Frederick Olmstead, is of a high caliber. > > > > Maybe cultural and linguistic homogeneity is an assumption for the law to > > hold. I'm sure both Bombay and Delhi didn't grow in the same organic > fashion > > as US cities might have due to such barriers which are far less in the > US, > > not to mention more sophisticated urban planning. > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 2009/5/21 Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]> >> >> > Additionally, I don't think Zipf's law holds well >> > for Indian cities. >> > >> > For "urban areas by population", the sink of all knowledge tells us: >> > Bombay 20,400,000 >> > Delhi 19,830,000 >> > Calcutta 15,250,000 >> > Madras 7,400,000 >> > Bangalore 7,030,000 >> > >> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population> >> >> >> >> >> Kiran >> > >
