--- Philip Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The > first part makes sense. In which case, logically, > the only choice for Goans > is between turning Goa into a 'city' by design or by > default. In any event, > there should be some 'alternative' to what has been > proposed as a regional > plan. What is it? Cheers. ----------------------------------
Dear Philip, I enjoy reading your emails and you are a valuable new addition to the mailing list. In my very humble opinion (to use Mario's phrase), Goa has to decide once in for all the type of industry they are going to court, taking into consideration the human capital and infrastructural base they already possess. They can't decide to be an IT Park one day and a haven for polluting industries the next. All this leads to is flight of capital after the initial shock of realising that Goa doesn't have the infrastructure to sustain long-term growth. The second very important thing is to assign huge tracts of land (the relevant portions) as conservation land, not to be touched for atleast 99 years, in much the same way Clinton pronounced 60 million acres of US forest Service land untouchable for generations. The third aspect of the urbanisation of Goa has to take into account the natural environment and its preservation. This is not an impossible feat. It requires skilled urban planning from the likes of Charles Corea. He once appeared on television with interesting ideas on the rebuilding of Mumbai. What we do instead is leave our town and country planning to the like of Babush, who as we know has a fondness for the green, only it isn't the type of green that we like to conserve. Best seasons wishes, selma __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
