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Gautam Bhatia Tags : Posted: Wednesday, Nov 05, 2008 at 0050 hrs

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Could imaginative transport systems and public landscapes be implemented in a place that has a stranglehold of bickering municipal bodies? Unconstrained by urban bylaws, has any builder ever attempted anything beyond the most predictable and banal? To connect the roof tops of apartment houses and create an unusual landscape of clubs and cabanas, like recent projects in Madrid? Or used particular species of trees along the road because they don’t restrict vision? Why bother — the profits are too comfortable to risk innovation.

The writer, a Delhi-based architect, is author of ‘Punjabi Baroque and Other Memories of Architecture’

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City planningBy: Kishan | 05-Nov-2008 Reply | Forward We used to hear that Indians good planners and poor executers.Bhatia proves that in planning also we are very poor.

planning of Indian citiesBy: s m aurora,QMS auditor | 05-Nov-2008 Reply | Forward had our planners applied the 8 principles of quality management systems explained in internalnational management standard ISO 9001-2000 we might have been spared of such follies

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