If you needed more convincing on the matter of why India needs to build cities (and not futz around in villages), here’s a video of a TED presentation by Jaime Lerner. A video made more delightful by the way he wanders all over the place.
http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf
Thanks to Sudipta Chatterjee for the link.
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