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Some kids don't play Soccer and possibly will never play Golf, why so?

Sometimes one feels that sports is more about opportunities and affordability! 

Usually Kids from humble socioeconomic background seems to be happy and content with their primitive sports, which does not need any sports gear or tool or gadget or training or coach and so on. 
   
 Has it anything to do with the limited opportunities they get and their    sparse economic condition?

Making places - That street corner…

Traditional planning approach and values - being lost in transition?

Any random street corner of any random city, corner at the junction of streets, streets busy or calm, chaotic at times, still having its own order, order in transition, transition of daily commuters, transition of shifting daylight, transition of shadows, glitter of street and neon signage light, LED shop window and synchronized traffic light, that flux of casual traffic light, that changing activity landscape across the day across the seasons with occasional pause. But peculiar are the streets of old and heritage cities, cities with history, those streets and corners evolved from the centuries of planning and urban design experience, tailor-made to the local needs of community and neighborhood, with varying characteristics across the region across the city and across the world. Wisely adapted for local climate, some designed for extreme harsh summer, some for tons of snow, an ancestral legacy of planning and design up-to the last fine details of drain cover and cast iron light-pillars and articulated bollards.

Though respected, preserved and encouraged in some cities, that example and inherited legacy of urban design and planning is fast deteriorating and disappearing, sometimes out of ignorance sometimes purposefully ignored, in several parts of the world and almost in any upcoming new city in any corner of world, that local wisdom of traditional planning is increasingly being lost and being mechanized, being templatified. Traditionally those streets and corners were designed to protects commuters from harsh sun, from icy wind, and from pouring rain and sudden snow, those meandering streets used to have a texture of character with those spaces to pause and relax and in the comfortable safe niches, a place to chat and socialize and a place to engage oneself in that active buzz of street, corners reinforced to give it a distinct recognizable character. That legacy of traditional localized planning is calling for justice and revival.

Thinking about fabric ofcity especially within city boundaries, a natural question comes to mind, why a vast country with extremely diversified heritage and climatic regions and special needs should have only few standard templates of streets sections and junctions and street corners with little bit possibility of urban design integration mostly for sake of localization formalities? Templates though give advantage of planning execution, better control and cost efficiency; it tends to encourage deterioration of heritage characters and inherited values and learning mostly in the name of infrastructure and technical feasibility, commercial viability, changing lifestyle requirements, uniformity, standardization, international acceptance etc. Of-course needs are different today, speedy transport, higher population density, quantum shift in lifestyle and technology, higher latent demand, etc., hence the different planning approach visible and practiced today, but we should ask ourselves, can we incorporate those learning experience from our past generations into today’s planning process and can we infuse them in today’s “easy way out templates”? With all the technological advancement and possibilities and centuries of learning experience, one thinks that it’s somewhat possible to strike the balance between traditional learning and present planning approach preserving the character and dignity of that specific city that specific core and that neighborhood, starting right from the careful planning of that street and that street corner. All it needs is a tender heart, logical brain and collective will of planners, urban designers and policy makers and may be few extra bucks!    

A to Z Satellitexted : Urban Planning Text

Satellite view or architecture and planning resembling English alphabet 

Its took one bright idea, couple of days, several dozen cities, hundreds of Google Earth rotation and thousands of zoom-in-out to compile this piece of work for you. Enjoy Satellitexted* urbanism!    

*Satellitexted : Building plan in satellite view resembling Alphabet!

Absolut city...

Famous Industrial clusters of India

Industrial Clusters known for intense output and large market share. 

World Agro Market Information Resources

Global Agro Market Information

AMIS  : Agricultural Market Information System

A G20 initiative.

Global agricultural market information system

     http://statistics.amis-outlook.org/data/index.html

     http://www.amis-outlook.org/

AMIS Aims to -

Enhance food market outlook information

Improve agricultural market information, analyses and forecasts

Report on abnormal international market conditions

Collect and analyse policy information,

Promote dialogue and responses, and international policy coordination;

Build data collection capacity in participating countries.

Indian Agro Market Information

National Agricultural Market Atlas

http://gisserver.nic.in/agmarknet/Default.asp?stat=1024&hitcnt=%22%20&%20hit%20&%20%22

Check Agricultural Market Prices Online, India

http://agmarknet.nic.in/

Existing and Proposed Tourist Circuits of India

Expanding tourism infrastructure in India

The Ministry of Tourism of India has identified 45 Mega Tourist Destinations/ Circuits in consultation with the concerned State Governments/ Union Territories (U.T.) Administrations on the basis of footfalls and their future tourism potential. Out of the 45 identified   projects, 30 have already been sanctioned. Some of the Tourist circuits along with indicative maps are given below.

ASSAM:

National Park Mega Circuit covering Manas,Orang, Nameri,Kaziranga, Jorhat,Sibsagar & Majouli

 

BIHAR:

Bodhgaya-Rajgir-Nalanda- Circuit

      

CHATTISGARH:

Jagdalpur-Tirathgarh-Chitrakoot-Barsur-Dantewada-Tirathgarh Circuit

GUJARAT:

1) Dwarka-Nageshwar-BetDwarka Circuit 

2) Shuklatirth-Kabirvad-Mangleshwar-AngareshwarCircuit

     

HARYANA:

Panipat-Kurukshetra-Pinjore Circuit 

HIMACHAL PRADESH:

Eco and Adventure Circuit (Kullu-Katrain-Manali)

HARYANA & HIMACHAL PRADESH:

Panchkula –Yamunanagar(Haryana) – PontaSahib

JAMMU & KASHMIR:

Naagar Nagar Circuit (Watlab viaHazratbal,Tulmullah, Mansbaland Wullar Lake), Srinagar

MADHYA PRADESH:

Bundelkhand comprising of Tikamgarh, Damoh, Sagar, Chhatarpurand Panna 

MAHARASHTRA:

Mahaur-Nanded -Vishnupuri Back Water- Kandhar Fort

ORISSA:

Bhubaneshwar-Puri-Chilka- Circuit

RAJASTHAN:

1) Ajmer- Pushkar

2) Jodhpur-Bikaner-Jaisalmer

TAMILNADU:

Pilgrimage Heritage Circuit (Madurai-Rameshwaram-Kanyakumari)

UTTARAKHAND:

Haridwar-Rishikesh-Munikireti- Circuit

UTTAR-PRADESH:

1) Varanasi-Sarnath-Ramnagar Circuit

2) Mathura-Vrindavan

Data Source: http://pib.nic.in/, 

Images prepared with help of Google Map