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When Development Forgets It Is on an Island
Sanjay Balan This photograph was taken during morning walk. What it captures is not merely an awkward RCC structure or an unaesthetic cut—it captures a mindset. A portion of a joggers’ park has been sliced unscientifically to accommodate a belly-shaped concrete mass, leaving behind an exposed vertical hill face that nature never intended to stand at ninety degrees. We are an island territory—hilly, fragile, and shaped over millennia by wind, rai…
[Questioning Population Disparities and Promotion Measures] (11) Interview (4) Professor Daisuke Kamiya, University of the Ryukyus (Civil Engineering Planning) In societies with declining populations, such as remote islands and depopulated areas, there is a shortage of local government staff, and the development and maintenance of aging infrastructure tends to stagnate. As tax revenues also decrease, how to run an efficient administrative operat…
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