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by mncharity 839 days ago
Some decades ago, anticipating India's enormous demographic growth, WTO funded urban development prototypes, like mixed-use low-rise neighborhoods, to serve as empowering models for the coming century of massive societal infrastructure creation. IIRC, they mostly still exist, and mostly worked out well... and were never copied. Developers much preferred to use land for high-end suburbs.