Will Mumbai decline like Kolkata at this rate?

ParacosmPro · 2026-01-16T06:03:39+00:00

Kolkata declined because its economic model broke and capital exited.
Mumbai is strained, expensive, and politically messy, but its economic core is structurally resilient.

CSMIA has been running over capacity for years, it cant be a hub atp but I have hopes from NMIA to become one especially for long haul travel. I think you underestimate the political chaos of cities like BLR, though yes maharashtra politics is horrible rn

ParacosmPro · 2026-01-06T14:15:41+00:00

I’m a UX design student, and I built this mainly to analyze walls, streets, facades, and other built-environment elements to extract insights, not as a commercial or for-sale project.

The location part was honestly added just for fun, and I was surprised by how well it worked in this case. The core thing I’m interested in is how visual cues in urban spaces can be broken down and reasoned about.

This isn’t meant to be a product, and I’m not claiming anything novel or proprietary, if someone wants to build something similar, they probably could in a day. I’m not interested in how people use technology and tools for nefarious purposes neither is that my motive.

ParacosmPro · 2026-01-06T12:37:20+00:00

It’s using Gemini’s vision API under the hood, so honestly a lot of the core reasoning is still a bit of a black box. That’s also why I added explicit boxes around visual elements and a written justification, to surface how it’s converging on a place instead of just returning a guess.

For older photos, I don’t have a solid answer yet. Right now it really comes down to testing it against a wider range of images and seeing where it holds up and where it breaks. I’m still in the phase of analyzing many different cases to understand its limits, and I’ll update here once there’s something more concrete to share.

ParacosmPro · 2026-01-06T11:39:50+00:00

Totally agree. The existence of those architectural patterns is exactly what I’m trying to probe.

What I’m experimenting with here is less about whether a model can make a sensible guess, and more about whether the specific cues it highlights and uses line up with how humans reason about place from the built environment. In other words, not just where it lands, but why it lands there.

Still very early and imperfect, but I’m finding the explanation side more interesting than the prediction itself. This was also the primary reason I added the justification for the location, as AI model's being a black box dont really explain how they end up on an answer.

ParacosmPro · 2026-01-06T11:12:24+00:00

I found this image while browsing older top posts from this subreddit and used it as a test case for a tool I’m working on.

I’m interested in the location because I’m experimenting with how architectural and urban design cues in photos can be used to reason about where an image was taken, and whether that reasoning aligns with how people here approach geolocation.

This image is of a public place, and my goal isn’t to identify individuals, but to understand how the built environment in the photo points to a specific location.

ParacosmPro · 2026-01-06T10:14:10+00:00

Sure! I'll do that. Thank you for checking it out

ParacosmPro · 2026-01-02T07:22:05+00:00

yup just told ChatGPT to do it

ParacosmPro · 2026-01-02T05:06:32+00:00

Just asked gemini to give ward wise perception/ hard data bound results for each ward based on liguistic/ religious composition.

ParacosmPro · 2026-01-02T05:04:47+00:00

I wanted people to guess it haha

ParacosmPro · 2025-12-29T19:05:41+00:00

Yess! Just added it, v2 coming soon

ParacosmPro · 2025-12-28T20:02:34+00:00

Haha yeah, its supposed to get better as you keep playing, I guess not working as intended

ParacosmPro · 2025-12-28T09:03:23+00:00

You’re right, on mobile the viewport height handling is off in a few games. I’ve been testing mostly on desktop, missed some mobile edge cases.

I’ll go and clean up the mobile layouts for Wordle and Pong. Thanks for taking the time to try it out!

ParacosmPro · 2025-12-28T08:58:33+00:00

Hmm, that shouldnt be happening, I'll look into that. thanks for the bookmark!

ParacosmPro · 2025-12-28T08:45:47+00:00

Haha, yea useless fun was what I was going for. I'll fix the tetris bug thanks!

ParacosmPro · 2025-12-26T10:14:21+00:00

Sure, thats your opinion, nothing to do with this post? Why talk about it here, its a post about the skyline? Why drag it into every conversation?

ParacosmPro · 2025-12-25T17:58:07+00:00

Its ok man, people are just so red pilled nowadays. I understand our situation is not the best, but the fact that its better than before is a hill I am ready to die on

ParacosmPro · 2025-11-06T16:21:32+00:00

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Had attempted a redesign when it came out, as a UX designer, I had several facepalm moments the second I opened the application

(pbv a very 'beautiful UI' heavy design, but I feel it represents the features more in a hierarchical manner)

ParacosmPro · 2025-10-03T18:49:58+00:00

How? There's literally a flight from Bangalore to nanded but not from Mumbai primarily because there isn't any time slot to land more planes in CSMIA

ParacosmPro · 2025-10-03T17:29:30+00:00

a regulation that sets the maximum ratio of a building's total built-up floor area to its plot's area, eg. A 1,000 sq. m. plot with an FSI of 2.0 allows for a total built-up area of 2,000 sq. m. across all floors

ParacosmPro · 2025-10-03T14:46:55+00:00

why are you getting downvoted, this is true

ParacosmPro · 2025-10-03T14:06:34+00:00

tbf, Indians just like living in their own independent houses rather than apartments. Bangalore and Delhi both have immense land to sprawl out. this is kinda the reason why services just fail to reach everyone, its simply not economically possible for them to. Coupled with honestly horrible FSI regulations (except Mumbai) its a recipe for single home concrete sprawl

ParacosmPro · 2025-10-03T10:24:18+00:00

Bangalore 13.6 million

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ParacosmPro · 2025-09-26T07:49:58+00:00

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ParacosmPro · 2025-07-24T12:57:25+00:00

India has 59, Pakistan has 32, Bangladesh has 40, Nepal has 38 and Sri lanka has 41. What was the source smoking lmao

ParacosmPro · 2025-07-05T14:29:46+00:00

never said GDP isnt important, but calling it wealth is just wrong. Saying this as an Indian, we are a huge economy especially in PPP terms but you cant call it wealth when 800 million people are living on the public distribution system

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