Comments by "M Shastri" (@libshastra) on "How do you plan for 46 million people?" video.

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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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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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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