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From: Architexturez <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:49:06 +0530
ref:
http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg03255.shtml
can be cheaper to assess the entire discussin' at one time. so wait
until the current ngo-friendly-media stampede is over? for example, the
current issue of
http://www.frontline.in has a focus on this business.
Retail invasion, View from the Left
Jalandhar: Curious practices
Kolkata: Unique coexistence
Mumbai: Gender factor On the streets
Bangalore: Food for thought
Chennai: Chain reaction
Regulating space
reading through, and ROTFL over several passages (viz: "Organisations
such as the Confederation of Indian Industry have been demanding that
the real estate market be regulated and zoning laws modified to favour
organised trade. Even lack of regulation, in spite of vast global
experience with large-format retail, is to be construed as a favour
dispensed. In contrast, the claims of street vendors and hawkers are
ignored and anti-hawking policies are embedded in city laws. Town
planning principles and rules recognise only rights vested by property
ownership and not other forms of claims to a city. As a result,
organised retail alone faces the danger of being considered as service
providers while hawkers and other vendors who can only lay claim to the
city would be further marginalised.")
should anyone care to pin the tail over this donkey.
Architexturez wrote:
As the early morning light slowly illuminates the mishmash of streets
around the Krishnarajendra Market in central Bangalore, pushcart vendors
wade through ankle-deep mud and cow manure and past heaping piles of
cabbage leaves and rotting tomatoes. Skinny porters doubled over beneath
burlap sacks full of vegetables shuffle through the quagmire, trying to
avoid the trucks that belch blue clouds of diesel exhaust and the sacred
but occasionally cantankerous cows munching on piles of trash. Women squat
behind piles of vegetables they will carry to distant neighborhoods for a
tiny profit. The grocery business in India is choreographed chaos, a
commercial dance honed over decades, fascinating and charming in its own
way but also corrupt, unhygienic and highly inefficient.
cont'd....
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1626725,00.html
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