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Parking Workshop – Micheal Kordonsky
Of the many things that are conveniently forgotten or pushed under the rug in the name of other important things in urban management in most indian cities, parking is sure to find the top spot. ITDP’s parking expert – Michael Kordonsky was in Chennai...
Public Life Public Space Workshop
Chennai City Connect Foundation in association with ‘The Institute for Transportation Development & Policy’ (ITDP) organized a three day workshop with GEHL Architects in city. The Public Life Public Space Workshop in Progress Sharing the...
A quiet revolution in Bangalore
There is a quiet revolution in traffic management going on in Bangalore. Ashwin Mahesh and his Mapunity team along with some really smart and committed officers of the Bangalore traffic police are putting some very cutting edge systems in place to manage...
Street Development Manual
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) has come up with a Street Development Manual. The manual discusses the various street elements in detail with various street width scenarios. City Connect is working with the ITDP to make Corporation...
Pallikaranai Marsh Conservation
City Connect has started working on a project to conserve the Palikaranai Marsh area. For your information, the palikaranai marsh area is home to 125 birds, 10 mammals, 21 reptiles, 9 amphibians, 49 species, 9 molluscans, 5 curtaceans, 7 butterflies,...
Oren Tatcher, Transit Expert to visit Chennai
September 19, 2010toSeptember 22, 2010Oren Tatcher, AIA, HKIUD, Principal of OTC Limited, a Hong Kong-based planning and design firm specializing in transportation facilities and transport-oriented urban master plans, is visiting Chennai to meet authorities...
Presentation to Mayor and Councilors
Recently Chennai City Connect (CCC) did something new, at least for us. We organized a presentation for the Mayor of Chennai and Chennai Corporation Councilors by the team from Gehl Architects. Gehl team was represented by Henning Thomsen and Jeff Risom....
Interaction session with Robert Swan
August 15, 20104:00 pmto6:00 pmWe are pleased to host an Interaction session with Robert Swan. For lesser mortals like the editor of the city connect website, here is brief about Robert Swan. Robert Swan, OBE is one of the world’s preeminent polar explorers...
Gehl Architects team to visit Chennai
August 16, 2010toAugust 22, 2010Gehl Architects, the world renowned Urban architects are visiting Chennai on August 16 2010 and are likely to take a trip around the city to make recommendations to the city planners. Over the course of their six day visit...
