Comments by "M Shastri" (@libshastra) on "City Beautiful" channel.

Urban Land Ceiling Act ruined Delhi and almost killed property rights. Delhi tried to parcel land equally to everyone and tried to ban sales outright. That law was scrapped sometime in the 90s and that's how Haus Khan was able to be gentrified. Indians cities are a great example of planning and land use policy failures. They actually make for a great case study. You should consider making a video on Mumbai. That city has its own challenges, it needs both roads and transit.
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@Zaydan Naufal ummm. You have not experienced property rights in India. It's one of the few places in the world where transfer of property is not recognized as a transaction between private parties. In India, unless your local bureaucracy "validates" the two parties are of sound mind you can't transact it. India has a lot of laws with good intentions but they are applied horribly and often yields poor (often comical) results Moving away from property rights, a more relevant example is Coastal Regulation Zones Act. It was enacted to protect Mangroves around Mumbai (Coastal regions around India to be more precise). The act, the way it was formulated overnight made several parcels illegal including the govts own facilities like water treatment plants. Decades of capacity upgrades were stuck in court litigations. The end result was rivers in the city became sewers, plastic pollution became rampant in the mangroves.
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@dkblaze9072 lol no. Planners were actually planning according by socialist ideals mandated by law. The Govt. this very stupid law called Urban Land ceiling act which limited land parcel. It tried to divide parcels equally to everyone. That disaster of a law forced parcels to be small and banned property developers from buying large parcels of land to build tall. In addition to that, Indian planning standards mandated 35% of a parcel should be greenspace on a per parcel basis. Say you manage to buy 100 parcels, each of those 100 parcels needs to have 35% of it's land set aside for trees. Try building tall with that kind of code.
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@sagarsonawane1698 my own Delhi? Mumbai majhi aahe. Mi Mumbaikar nahi he sangayala tu kaun aaheez? Chaila penguin party chaatu.
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Great video as always! I feel you missed out on how the region as a whole is adding to the housing crunch. The recent tech boom as be attributed to suburban Tech companies such as Google, Facebook and numerous other startups south of SF. Cities like Mountain View readily zone high density commercial without proportional allocation for housing for workers who work in these high density commercial blocks. For a long time SF was the only place dense enough to accommodate (not to mention have enough cultural activities) relentless Tech Hiring.
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Ya, unfortunately the planners had to deal with really stupid Indian laws. Urban Land Ceiling Act and Forest Act pretty much made density illegal. ULCA divided land into very tiny parcels and made it impossible to consolidate parcels into one parcel. Forest Act made it impossible to build anything without allocating 35% of the parcel for trees.
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Public housing or no public housing. Tower blocks and condominiums are designed like hotels, they are poorly designed for families and discourages meeting neighbors and building that community. Compared to Asian condos, North American condos makes you hate condos.
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City Beautiful , I'd rather call it greedy specific development plan/zoning
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Are you working on Yamuna rehabilitation?
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@LucarioBoricua that's just phase 1. They haven't released project docs for phase 2
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You should consider other International Sports competitions like Universaide or IAAF or Commonwealth games. There are more competitions that these stadium can utilize but THEY DON'T since City Govt are so tunnel visioned toward Olympics
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