This post in Livemint, argues that the challenges posed by urban sprawl can be better addressed by an institutional framework that establishes multi-scale governance and a policy approach that prioritizes the provision of urban amenities in peri-urban areas. Excerpt below
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This post in Livemint, while lauding Gurgaon for achiving "economist Edward Glaeser’s contention that cities are the ideal form of modern civilization", laments "the chaos created last week by the monsoon ... [as] a warning of what happens when the state abandons its role of shaping and ...
Shruti Rajagopalan, Assistant Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Purchase College, talks to IDFC Institute's Pritika Hingorani on her paper "Lessons from Gurgaon: India's Private City", written with Alexander T. Tabarrok, Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at George ...