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For Better Pavements: Public Policy, Citizen's Initiatives & Media

Here are some links to discussions on the need to improve pavements. These would largely be what I have called in the workshop note as citizen-centric perspectives, though interestingly not always exclusionary:

A draft report submitted by Bangalore Metropolitan Land
Transport Authority (BMLTA) a public body, arguing for investment & planning for better pedestrian facilities. BMLTA signals attempts at government-public dialogue over city-related infrastructure issues:

http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/Draft%20Pedestrian%2...

Praja (Citizen), a civil society group interested in civic affairs discusses pedestrian infrastructure and what needs to be done to improve sidewalks:

http://praja.in/en/gyan/walking-bangalore-amenities-pedestrians

Jayati Ghosh, Professor in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and a well known columnist of a national fortnightly 'Frontline', discusses the state of sidewalks in Indian cities:

http://www.macroscan.com/cur/feb09/cur030209footpaths.htm

A post from a
blog 'Urban Good Governance':
http://urbangoodgovernance.typepad.com/urban_good_governance/2005/0...





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Further reading on walking and on arts & sustainability

Walking in life, art and science : a few examples (Sacha Kagan, ed., 2010). eBook in PDF format to download HERE

Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures (Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg, eds., 2008). Available at: Amazon (Germany) ; Amazon (US)
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