Article Archive for April 2008
This last week Delhi began a trial run for its first bus rapid transit corridor, a 5.8 kilometer stretch in the southern part of the city. To put it mildly, the start has been …
The sun setting in Mumbai. Photo by d ha rm e sh.
Earlier this week, TheCityFix ran the first part of an interview with Krishnaraj Rao, a citizen turned activist, who now spends a significant …
Here Pedestrians hold back traffic after painting a sidewalk on the street. Photo from Friendlyghost.
Krishnaraj Rao lives in Borivli, a suburb of Mumbai known for its famous Sanjay Gandhi National Park, and, more recently, …
Photo by Monica Almeida from The New York Times.
This weekend the New York Times had an article about a neat initiative to transform bus stops in Los Angeles into something called “community living rooms” – …
Crystal Davis looks at urbanization and its impact on environment and development in Part I of a three-part series. Check out other analysis by Crystal at http://earthtrends.wri.org.
Now home to half of the world’s people, …
Photo by existentist.
Today’s New York Times has a letter to the editor I wrote in response to the paper’s <a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/business/worldbusiness/15food.html?ref=opinion”recent article on the links between biofuels and global food shortages. Entitled “Fuel Choices, …
Photo by James Cridland.
In ancient Indian and Chinese texts, writers noted that the ultimate form of torture involved subjecting captives to loud and horrible noises. It’s an interesting paradox that we now live in …
Photo by MumbaiDailySnapshot.
From the Boston Globe, this just in: “More than 20,000 people have been killed on Mumbai’s notoriously overcrowded train system over the past five years — many of them crushed, run over or …
Photo by Lush.i.ous.
Joe Foti, a colleague of mine at WRI, just alerted me to a sprawling Wikipedia page on freeway revolts, a term referring to citizen efforts to stop freeway construction in their neighborhoods. …
Photo by padawan.
China: China’s Olympic anti-pollution plan to start in July[AFP]
China: Beijing Stops Construction for Olympics[New York Times]
United States: Push for Urban Parkland Takes Root[USA Today]
New York: ‘Biking Is the New Golf!’[New York Observer]
Washington …
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