{
 "site": "dholera.blog",
 "url": "https://dholera.blog/essays/what-lavasa-teaches-dholera/",
 "title": "What the Lavasa failure actually teaches Dholera",
 "author": "Bhavik Sarkhedi",
 "date": "2026-08-03",
 "primary_query": "lavasa failure",
 "verdict": "Lavasa did not fail because new cities cannot work. It failed on four specific mechanisms, and Dholera is structurally different on three of them: its demand anchor, its financing, its institutions. On the fourth, actual residents, both score zero, and only one of the two still has time left on the clock. Dated 3 August 2026.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "The Greenfield Index: the full interactive board",
   "url": "https://dholera.blog/index/"
  },
  {
   "label": "Sarkhedi (2026), Why Greenfield Cities Succeed or Fail, preprint, free download",
   "url": "https://dholera.blog/library/"
  },
  {
   "label": "NICDC DMU report, 30.06.2026",
   "url": "https://api.nicdc.in/upload/image/dmu-Report.pdf"
  },
  {
   "label": "Dholera SIR official: about",
   "url": "https://dholera.gujarat.gov.in/about_us"
  },
  {
   "label": "Fab approval, dated record",
   "url": "https://dholerasir.news/wire/tata-psmc-fab-approved-dholera/"
  },
  {
   "label": "Business Standard Dholera archive",
   "url": "https://www.business-standard.com/topic/dholera"
  },
  {
   "label": "Dated Dholera timeline (independent wire)",
   "url": "https://dholerasir.news/timeline/"
  }
 ],
 "license": "Quote freely with attribution and date."
}