In the second of three articles, Henrik Valeur visits Bangalore to see how researchers at the Indian Institute of Science are integrating bicycle sharing and electric vehicles on campus, a potential prototype for urban transit systems across India's cities.
Henrik Valeur confronts us with the health problems caused by motorised transportation, suggesting that mobility may not be about the balance between public and private, but between motorised and non-motorised.
Simply creating urban policies that parallel India's rural policies won't fully solve the problem of urban poverty, especially when migrants and other groups fall into the cracks between the two policy regimes.
A hundred-year-old street market in Bangalore was demolished in the dead of night last month. How much history and local colour is lost by enforcing the law now after so many years?
While Bangalore has a longer history of globalisation than Gurgaon, both are facing major inequality and infrastructure deficits, and both have the human capital to overcome these problems.
Henrik Valeur is a Danish architect-urbanist based in Copenhagen. His work is available at http://www.henrikvaleur.dk .
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