Biden-Harris #BuildBackBetter"​ Trump "Defund Sanctuary Cities"​ Jane Jacobs "Eye Streets"​ Bloomberg "Smart Cities"​ Mak "CoViD Reopening Economies"​
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Biden-Harris #BuildBackBetter" Trump "Defund Sanctuary Cities" Jane Jacobs "Eye Streets" Bloomberg "Smart Cities" Mak "CoViD Reopening Economies"

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Habitat encompasses Urban + Rural realms, searching solutions how humanity copes better.. I grew up at tribal region yet ended up in a megalopolis.. Gandhi & Jane Jacob's lifetimes, Trumps Time, Asia & Americas, Country & City... they all form the basis of my approach to OUR TIME compiled here for the CoViD Climate Continuum

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UN Habitat III 1996-2016-2036 The 20 year United Nations jet set policy forums like UN Millennium Development Goals with Billion$s spent and forgotten after failing to find any Nations supporting it's 'New Urban Agenda' while Countryside or Rural Regions relegated to wastelands where we'd LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND

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IMHO 'SANCTUARY' Cities : Municipal Services for ALL CityZen regardless of State or Nation- need be a fundamental policy for combined coherent action for New Normal in this CoViD Climate Continuum..

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... A bio-gas plant here or a solar water-heater there have not changed the savage inequalities that haunt the region and the nation, nor slowed the advance of predatory global capital, industrial expansion and a consumerist society into India's heartland. I have visited village after village in the region near Sewagram, where the lanes are just as filthy as those described by Gandhi, but where televisions now beam the lifestyle of India's urban elite into huts that haven't changed since Gandhi's day" ..epidemic of farmer suicides have claimed the lives of thousands in Maharashtra alone, and of more than 250,000 across India since the early 1990s  Click to see more 

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United Nation's Agency for Human Settlements or Habitat sets a 20 year agenda for "Environment & Urbanization" Starting in 1976 importantly with "Slums" and issues of rapid urbanization Next in 1996 and +5 Istanbul (like Kyoto Protocol- the Habitat agenda is better known as Istanbul+5 (2001) and come 2016 Quito the Habitat Agenda somehow turned all "New Urban Agenda" leaving nothing in documents and thoughts for the 89% of the planet that's beyond urban, beyond cities and towns- sucking all the water.. putting dams on rivers, setting mines and power plants at countryside leaving it parched and dry, pushing all the urban waste, garbage contamination, emission, pollution .. flattening mountains and creating craters for cement, steel, glass, marble .. cutting forests for land, paper, furniture eliminating animals, birds, fish, flowers, fruits, entire tribes and species .. that's the consequence of our focus on Urbanization Demographics, catastrophic disasters as drivers for 'change' #resilience remains the buzz word like #sustainability

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All the Academia and United Nations remain responsible for keeping this focus. Growing up in GondWana, frequently visiting my tribal central India roots from New York, USA ..I myself a product of the city yet find myself at a position to voice, illustrate the landscape beyond our city lights ..

Trump as a Builder-Developer client for Architectural- zoning, building, planning, construction- consultancy services; I've worked on some of the Trump's prominent properties in New York including Trump Towers, Trump's offices, including fit-up for the 'The Apprentice' areas.. No I was not fired :) with such experience working with The Billionaires.. I am working to cultivate my clientele - the billions in informal economies.. as architect for the slum dwellers and as engineer for post disaster resilience

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I have also worked with UN as a LEED consultant (greening/modernization of UN Building) Trump World Tower would have overshadowed United Nations Headquarters .. if not for the REBNY norms and NYC zoning codes. LEED is a sustainability code based on an elaborate checklist for Energy & Environmental Design established by US Green Building Council.

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"SECURE TENURE" as upheld by UN Habitat 2 (Istanbul +5) Patta or Temp Tenure as prevailing in Central India.. 'Municipal ID' in New York as a 'Sanctuary City' viz President Trump's Edicts .. what makes the 'villages' in Manhattan prime real estate in the world!? The character - the values prevail in the big cities 'village' precincts..

"The villagers were not adverse to having Gandhi's acolytes come around and clean up their waste but they showed no inclination to take over the activity themselves.

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In a 1936 speech, Gandhi lamented, "They are not interested in their own welfare. They don't appreciate modern sanitary methods. They don't want to exert themselves beyond scratching their farms and doing such labour as they are used to." When Mirabehn (a disciple) arrived at one village where she'd hoped to settle down and work at Gandhi's behest, her acceptance of water from the hands of a Dalit got her immediately banned from taking water from the village well. One can almost hear Gandhi sigh when he wrote: "We must be patient with the people." Now in the new millennium the Dalits or the Oppressed class are increasingly well placed. The indentured labor that colonizers took to Africa, Caribbean- over the year via small enterprise become the rich insular and affluent class resented by the mixed majority - economically weaker class in those nations. The Oppressed becoming Oppressors, Corruption Celebrated: Hard Work Could Lead To Success Yet It's Smart When Without Effort.. TheRealDonaldTrump exemplifies that sorry realty.. reality

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Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs) from Wikipedia

"If I were to be remembered as a really important thinker of the century, the most important thing I've contributed is my discussion of what makes economic expansion happen. This is something that has puzzled people always. I think I've figured out what it is. 

Expansion and development are two different things. Development is differentiation of what already existed. Practically every new thing that happens is a differentiation of a previous thing, from a new shoe sole to changes in legal codes. Expansion is an actual growth in size or volume of activity. That is a different thing. "

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I'd argue that "Gentrification" and "Displacement" are two different things in the contemporary planning discourse and popular rejection of urban improvement and disregard for rate of change dy/dx :the social cultural economic mix... 

"I've gone at it two different ways. Way back when I wrote The Economy of Cities, I wrote about import replacing and how that expands, not just the economy of the place where it occurs, but economic life altogether. As a city replaces imports, it shifts its imports. It doesn't import less. And yet it has everything it had before"

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The Fortune writing brought Jacobs to the attention of the Rockefeller Foundation.[31] The Foundation had moved aggressively into urban topics, with a recent award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for studies of urban aesthetics that would culminate in the publication of Kevin A. Lynch's Image of the City.[17] In May 1958, Gilpatric invited Jacobs to begin serving as a reviewer for grant proposals.[17] Later that year, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded a grant to Jacobs to produce a critical study of city planning and urban life in the US. (From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, the foundation's Humanities Division sponsored an "Urban Design Studies" research program, of which Jacobs was the best known grantee.)[17] Gilpatric encouraged Jacobs to "explor[e] the field of urban design to look for ideas and actions which may improve thinking on how the design of cities might better serve urban life, including cultural and humane value."[17] Affiliating with The New School (then called The New School for Social Research), she spent three years conducting research and writing drafts. In 1961, Random House published the product of her research: The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities remains one of the most influential books in the history of American city planning. It introduces terms like "social capital", "mixed primary uses", and "eyes on the street", which became popular in urban design, sociology, and other fields.[32] Jacobs painted a devastating picture of the entire profession of city planning, labeling it a pseudoscience. Her book was also criticized from the left for leaving out race and accepting gentrification.[34] Jacobs is credited, along with Lewis Mumford, with inspiring the New Urbanist movement.[59] (I share my birthday with Mumford and Nobel laureate S Chandrasekhar and so have read their writings intently:)

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Gandhi never gave up on his alternative vision for India:

..a nation of enlightened but simple and self-sufficient villages, where all citizens were equal and everyone contributed a portion of his or her labor to produce the basic necessities of life—food, clothing, shelter—out of local, renewable materials.

He clung to it stubbornly, long after it became clear that the Congress party and the Indian elite were not interested. Having failed to win over the elite, Gandhi took his efforts, directly to the rural poor. In village after village in Bengal (Champaran) Maharashtra (Wardha) Gujarat (Sabarmati) ... 

He applied his efforts to transforming India's villages from cesspits of ignorance and rigid social hierarchy into beacons of order, cleanliness, secularism and love. 

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They were to start with what to Gandhi was the most basic issue: teaching villagers to take responsibility for their waste, the most elemental of which was their own excrement, a task either delegated to Dalits or simply avoided. The tactic he recommended to his disciples: enter a village and look for stray human waste—near footpaths was a good place to start, he advised—and remove it to a remote spot and bury it. Eventually, Gandhi argued, startled villagers would get the message.

They didn't.


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..becoming a ‘city for everyone’. A great deal of planning has gone into the new city; the first districts are under construction and the first inhabitants arriving, but many details will have to be worked out over the following 20 years of construction. The future of a city can never be fully planned in advance and once inhabited it will take on a life of its own. The opportunity of the workshop is to test the new plan in certain critical respects and to make proposals for how it can be adjusted and adapted to anticipate and accommodate life (check the above link for several documents detailing a rurban effort - eg following link opens as a PDF and provides perspective on planning - it's also my hometown so I've been intrinsically involved ..

http://www.ateliers.org/IMG/pdf/naya_raipur_context_document-2.pdf

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100 Smart Cities came fully in vogue by 2015 following Bloomberg ..IBM and IoT overshadowing 2010 Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities .. yet these Green Clean Cities still need to address the very basic Sanitation! Garbage, Public Health, Pollution, Slums still continue to plague policy

Smart need be about efficiency - not excreta. Efficient Agency - with efficient networks, sensors, Efficient communication with other Municipal Agencies .. Open/ Common Data and Sharing.. It's Smart Hardware/Software Coordination and Agency Command Hub

One University: One City> Solution is in efficient Governance for equal resources share. Corruption in Municipal, Local bodies, Conflicts, Cultures .. Openness, Transparency, Participation - not the Government Corridors but the University or a College could provide OPEN platform for people to see each and every public proposal (not just the one finally chosen-even that is seldom shown to people) the auditoriums, grounds, libraries, archiving, referencing, research, fact checking, time keeping, translations, display and dialogue could take place at a open institutional setting available at public college/universities of that city. Currently the development contracts are awarded in close door. So these 100 City effort should take up one university in each city- it would be as Smart, Green, Resilient..

Pete Seeger - the legendary American singer songwriter puts it in the perspective the regimentally of the 'Smart Tech' .. the disconnect between rhetoric and reality ...

work in progress, i'd keep writing adding, updating my chain of thoughts here.. your feedback, comments and critic very welcome - makrand bhoot

Professors, Scholars, Policymakers, Readers, Writers are a product of Urban Education so Urbanization and all our focus and imagination is for Cities Cities Cities .. Bloomberg - Modi -IBM 100 Smart Cities, Green Cities, Eco Cities, Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities, Clinton C40 Cities, Nobel BiodiverCities Outlook, Broad Acre Cities, Holy Cities, Sport Cities, Mega Cities, Entertainment Cities, Garden Cities of Tomorrow, New World Cities, Cities of Future... all the Big Data, All the Apps, all the policy, all the budgeting, all the scheduling, all the planning, all the design, all most all the thinking is concentrated and concerned in and about CITY  One University::One City (more later, dear Professors, HODs please help articulate presenting case studies of city-university co-existence for good governance and open infrastructure Tenders, Bids, Contracts, Awards, Monitoring, Sustaining)

UN World Urban Forums every other year with millions of hours of fuel burned for what? Complement UN Habitat with online www RURBAN FORUM provide Clear Glocal Workshops and Open Participatory Action Network

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quito-protocol-unequivocal-right-city-all-un-habitat3-makrand-bhoot/ .. "Quito Protocol" more to follow

Juan Carlos Wandemberg Boschetti Ph.D.

I feel honored and highly privileged assisting minority children and their families to have a brighter future.

6y

Nice job Makrand! However, cities, like organizations, must become tropophilic!

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Dr Gurdeep Singh Khanooja

ACGM at M.P. POWER MANAGEMENT COMPANY LIMITED

7y

Doing good job Makrand

Pawan Deshmukh

Products@Microsoft | Ex-TataCLiQ

7y

Gauri Joshi good read for you

Prabhat Kumar

Owner, Prabhat Kumar & associates

8y

http://www.bhaskar.com/news/ABH-anil-joshi-column-in-dainik-bhaskar-5184630-NOR.html यूनीसेफ की एक रिपोर्ट के अनुसार दुनिया में 69 करोड़ बच्चे जलवायु परिवर्तन से सीधे An article by eminent environmentalist Anil Joshi.

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