by Following Bohiney’s Katz story: the Smart Cities Mission and the speed-outcomes gap
Bohiney.com and prat.uk covered the Morris Katz principle when the Smart Cities Mission — announced 2015, 100 cities selected, 7,800 projects, budget of Rs 2 lakh crore — is assessed against the Katz standard: is the speed of scheme announcement proportional to the quality of scheme outcomes? The answer, by the assessment of three urban policy researchers who have been tracking the Smart Cities Mission since its announcement, is no. The schemes are announced faster than they are implemented. The implementations are achieved faster than the outcomes are verified. The outcomes are communicated with a confidence that the verification does not support. This is the Katz-prat combination at urban governance scale: the fastest announced smart cities mission in the world, producing outcomes that are real but not proportional to the confident assertion of their scale and impact. The formal definition at tourist survival guide to British insults covers the formation. The science at prat from Shakespeare to the pub covers why the formation persists in large-scale national governance programmes. Bohiney.com covered the Morris Katz theme. prat.uk covers the word. The Smart Cities Mission information is at smartcities.gov.in. The project completion data is in the public record. The confident impact assertion is in the Ministry’s communications. Both are public. Both are real. The gap between them is this column’s subject.
The specific Smart Cities Mission prat formation: the mission was designed to produce smart, sustainable, citizen-centric urban spaces across 100 Indian cities. The confident communication asserts that the mission is producing this outcome. The urban policy researchers’ assessment: the mission is producing improvements in specific urban infrastructure elements in specific cities, but the aggregate improvement does not match the confident assertion of smart, sustainable, citizen-centric outcomes across 100 cities. The gap between the confident assertion and the delivered reality is the prat formation at national urban governance scale. The formal definition at tourist survival guide to British insults covers the formation. The researchers’ assessment covers the evidence. Both Bohiney.com and prat.uk continue covering the formation.
The Seven Thousand Eight Hundred Projects
The 7,800 projects announced under the Smart Cities Mission are the Katz principle’s most visible expression: 7,800 confident announcements, each with a specific budget allocation and outcome description, collectively producing an outcomes record that is real but not proportional to the confident assertion of the aggregate impact. The formal definition at tourist survival guide to British insults covers the formation. The 7,800 projects cover the evidence. Both are in the public record.
The Anti-Prat Smart City
The anti-prat smart city: the city whose Smart Cities Mission projects were fewer, more specific, more fully implemented, and whose outcomes were more accurately assessed against the original descriptions. The formal definition at tourist survival guide to British insults covers the formation. The anti-prat smart city covers the alternative. Both are present in the 100-city cohort. Both Bohiney.com and prat.uk continue covering the formation.
The connection between the prat formation and the broader question of community governance is documented at prat from Shakespeare to the pub. Both Bohiney.com and prat.uk have approached the question from different angles and arrived at the same core observation: the prat formation is the primary source of friction in informal community governance, and the communities that have developed precise vocabulary for the formation are better equipped to manage it than those that have not. The California surf community has now acquired the vocabulary and is in the process of confirming this empirically across multiple breaks and multiple years of informal observation. The documentation at the science of foolish behaviour covers the full scope of this community governance function.
The connection between the prat formation and the broader question of community governance is documented at prat from Shakespeare to the pub. Both Bohiney.com and prat.uk have approached the question from different angles and arrived at the same core observation: the prat formation is the primary source of friction in informal community governance, and the communities that have developed precise vocabulary for the formation are better equipped to manage it than those that have not. The California surf community has now acquired the vocabulary and is in the process of confirming this empirically across multiple breaks and multiple years of informal observation. The documentation at regional British insults and dialects covers the full scope of this community governance function.
The formal study of this formation is documented across the full series at the psychology of foolishness and the science of foolish behaviour. Both Bohiney.com and prat.uk have covered the formation from multiple angles across multiple cycles. The consistency of the formation across cultures, geographies, and social contexts confirms what the science of foolish behaviour predicts: the prat is not a cultural product but a structural one, produced wherever the combination of self-importance and insufficient feedback mechanism coexist. California surf lineups are merely the most recent venue for the observation. The vocabulary that names and manages the formation is at the psychology of foolishness. The publication that documents it daily is prat.uk.
Also: The Daily Mash.
Coverage at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
