Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Urban Regeneration with British Inputs

I met a delegation of UK India at Minister Firhad Hakim's chamber. We talked of urban regeneration and new towns, new technology and riverfront development. There will be a UK funded 3 month 'scoping study'. Here in an article in today's Bartaman:



Here is another link to Times of India of today:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Eye-for-Kolkatas-London-dreams/articleshow/10912459.cms
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 29, 2011 at 10:47 AM

    It's good to see that best practices across the globe are imbibed in the urban development plan for Kolkata and NewTown.

    Way to go!!!

    -Sowmik Sengupta

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  2. Premjeet DasguptaNovember 29, 2011 at 10:21 PM

    A dream study for an urban planner! Is there a way to be involved sir???

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  3. AbhishekNovember 30, 2011 at 10:45 PM

    Great initiative...we need some tangible changes very quickly,it doesn't matter if it is smaller initially...but better change has a great power of stimulating peoples's interest and perception... all the best Sir.

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  4. UnknownDecember 1, 2011 at 9:45 AM

    @Premjeet: Sure, I'll think about it.

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