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From TFA: "Between one industrial park and another industrial park are empty areas that are not safe areas at all,” Rajagopalan says. Sewage trucks
by al2o3cr 11y ago
From TFA:
"Between one industrial park and another industrial park are empty
areas that are not safe areas at all,” Rajagopalan says. Sewage
trucks will frequently bypass treatment plants and dump their contents
on public land, and while it poses a health hazard to nearby slums,
public officials don’t have the resources to counter such infractions.
In short, Gurgaon’s success story is confined to an archipelago of
private compounds populated by those who can afford to live there.
Yet the intro calls it a "strangely promising blueprint for urban development". o_O
Also, the bit at the end leaves off the punchline - the major developers insist that if they just owned more land they'd be more inclined to provide better services. If only there was some way that an entire small region could be organized to provide services, maybe call it "a city government"...