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How can walkability be improved in Indian cities?

Posted by Bhavani Prakash on September 13, 2011 at 11:19pm in Ideas for Innovation

Here's an interesting report by India Environmental Portal called, "Walkability in Indian Cities" covering 6 cities in India - Bhubaneshwar, Chennai, Indore, Pune, Rajkot and Surat. http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Walkability-India_SEP.pdf

How do you think walkability can be improved in your neighbourhood?

There's also a website http://www.walkscore.com/ (not related to the above survey) where you can get a walkability score for any address in the world!

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sameera kumar anthapur November 17, 2011 at 4:30am

The reason some of you were not able to open the file is because of the pdf version in your system is not compatible with the one the walkability report. Please try again with the latest adobe pdf reader 8 and above. If it still doesnt work, please give me your email ids, i would be happy to share the report. CAI Asia believes is sharing information without any costs!
Vinodh Valluri September 15, 2011 at 2:26pm

Thanks for sharing this friends! I was wondering how and why the cities were chosen for this project. Will read to figure that one. VERY glad to see this kind of studies going on in India. There is always hope. The West has developed into a self-destructive system, and India might still have the time to rethink growth, and mature in a sustainable way. Not even 100 years since independence, and we might already need these principles to keep us on the beneficial path.
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Chandra Kishore September 15, 2011 at 8:04am

The file opened up for me. I am attaching it here.
Walkability-India_SEP.pdf
Ravindra Gavali September 15, 2011 at 5:59am

I regret to inform u that nothing works as mentioned by u. Even visiting the Clean Air Initiatives site and google search wont help. The file from the source itself is password protected.

Anyway, if can view and download this file plz send it to rsgavali@gmail.com

I will be grateful to u.
Bhavani Prakash September 15, 2011 at 3:34am

Hi Ravindra,

Unfortunately, the pdf or website is not mine, so I can't remove passwords. Please go to http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in and search for "Walkability in Indian Cities" and you should be able to come to the document. I was able to retrieve it just now.

Or Please check this link http://tinyurl.com/3udhrmr and see if you can find the document download link. I've shortened it so it doesn't get cut off.

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Ravindra Gavali September 15, 2011 at 3:04am

Dear Bhavani Prakash,

The pdf which have uploaded is password protected and so its not opening without the password. In ur computer it may not password because it recognizes ur PC. So plz remove password protection and reload the file gain to the portal. It cud be an interesting study and we r eagerly waiting for it. I had also been working on similar issue and using GIS to solve the problem.

Thanks
Ashutosh Tiwari September 15, 2011 at 2:24am

Sorry to say but its again asking for document password......
Bhavani Prakash September 15, 2011 at 1:17am

If you can manually add /Walkability-India_SEP.pdf at the end because the last few letters are getting cut off.
Bhavani Prakash September 15, 2011 at 1:17am

I think the link got cut off, Ashutosh. Try again here...I'm able to access it. Thanks.

http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Walkability-India_S...

http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Walkability-India_SEP.pdf
Ashutosh Tiwari September 15, 2011 at 12:17am

http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Walkability-India_S... link is password protected ????

http://indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Walkability-India_SEP.pdf