Monthly Archives: January 2013

Reblogged from Open Geography: Or $73B or $150-$270B, or $1.6T, depending on how you define it. Details in this WaPo story. Read more… 3 more words About these ads

Reblogged from travelerreport: Despite of its love affair with cricket, India is a big failure in sports. Since 1896, India has won only 26 olympic medals, most of them in field hockey. How to explain such poor performances since so long ? There is no obvious explanation. … Continue reading →

Reblogged from geographical imaginations: Dirty wars: the world is a battlefield, a new film by the Nation’s brilliant investigative reporter  Jeremy Scahill and directed by Rick Rowley (of Big Noise Films) has won this year’s Sundance Film Festival Prize for best … Continue reading →

Reblogged from travelerreport: There is next to no training for would be drivers,… and the test is a farce. Licences are invariably obtained through bribery, and as a result there are real dangers on the roads and streets from poor … Continue reading →

Reblogged from PlanningTech: Today I gave a presentation called “Mobile Planning: There’s an App For That” for the American Planning Association’s Chapters and Divisions Webcast series. More than 400 planners across the US participated. This is part of my annual … Continue reading →

Reblogged from The Dirt: Curitiba, Brazil, and Bogota, Colombia are rightly famous for their world-changing bus rapid transit (BRT) systems and other urban transportation innovations, but other cities in Latin America are starting to give them a run for their … Continue reading →

Reblogged from Pollution Free Cities: Decarbonizing urban transport in European cities: four cases show possibly high co-benefits(10 page pdf, Felix Creutzig, Rainer Muhlhoff and Julia Romer,Environ. Res. Lett., Dec.19, 2012) Today we review an analysis of four policy scenarios for … Continue reading →