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1) India's cities will need to invest over $1 trillion and construct massive infrastructure to support the urban population boom by 2030.
2) Existing cities cannot sustain the increased population density and demand for housing, transport, water and other amenities.
3) New satellite cities should be established with high-speed transit connecting them to reduce pressure on existing cities. Government offices and sports stadiums should be shifted to seed new cities.
4) Expert planning committees are needed to properly plan
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Spatial planning are often still differentiating strictly between urban and rural development.
This dichotomy and the resulting administrative boundaries do not reflect the realities of highly interconnected areas anymore.
The sheer magnitude of the urban population, haphazard and unplanned growth of urban areas, and a desperate lack of infrastructure are the main causes of socio economic problems related to metropolitan cities.
Where metropolitan-scale planning does occur, it's typically related to “hard policies” such as urban planning, public transport, and infrastructure, leaving “soft policies” such as education, health, and social services fragmented across jurisdictional boundaries.
Infrastructure remain the backbone and the foundation of all communities, states and nations to operate efficiently, grow rationally and provide best quality of life to its inhabitants. Infrastructure is known to be great connector and distributors. Nothing can work without the provision of good infrastructures. All developing nations are struggling to provide appropriate infrastructure but have failed to deliver. Infrastructure remain labour and cost- intensive and are dictated by the policies and the programs evolved by the government. Cities have limited capacity, capability and willingness to provide appropriate infrastructure which make them unattractive and less productive. Cities need empowerment and also innovate and look for options which can help them create infrastructure without causing undue financial liabilities. In this regard planned development offers the best option to create and deliver appropriate infrastructures at the local level based on defined norms and standards. Town planning schemes have been reckoned to be the best options to create infrastructure at at local level. Involving communities in creation and determination of priorities shall always remain valuable. Infrastructures should be self-financing and self-sustainable. It should involve best of the quality to make them cost-effective and operationally efficient. Providing adequate supportive infrastructure will always remain crucial and valuable for all the societies and human settlement, both urban and rural. All human settlements must be planned, developed, operated and maintained with appropriate quality infrastructure to make then sustainable, qualitative, livable and operationally efficient.
Hill area planning, development and management, remains both intricate and complex task, requiring specialised skill, expertise, understanding, knowledge and experience. Hills are special for the reason they remain part of the nature and complex bio-sphere system They are storehouse of natural resources. They house natural wealth and best of climate. .Hills have numerous positivities but because of their fragility they remain vulnerable to all development activities undertaken by human species. Tourism has emerged as the double edged weapon in hill area development. Heritage has been subjected to vulnerability. Promoting mobility has led to disaster and population influx has made hill areas vulnerable. Hill areas need healing touch using nature and natural elements. They require care and caution for their sustainable development. They remain the hope to make world more livable and sustainable. Nations must care and respect its hill areas and should eliminates all factors which lead to diluting, damaging the hill area fabric, structure and soul.
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object Calisthenics
ChangeMasters
1. FUTURE CITIES: Providing world class
civic amenities in urban India
MANTHAN
Team: Change Masters
Radhika Bhatter
Trishla Gupta
Aditya Chadha
Anand Kumar
Chetan Dawada
College: MDI Gurgaon
2. 2010 2015 2020 2025
13.6 14.5 15.1 16.4
India’s Population Growth 1950 – 2050
Population of top 50 cities as a % of total population
• It is estimated that about 30 people migrate from rural areas to
urban areas every minute
• The total urban population in the world became 50 % of the
total population in 2008
• By 2030 the world’s urban population is expected to cross five
billion
• in 2010, about 1/3rd of the total population was living in slums
• By 2030, the total number of cities with population more than 1
million will become 68 from the current 42
• India’s cities could become responsible for generating more
than 70% of the total GDP and drive a four fold increase in per
capita incomes
• India needs to invest about $1.2 trillion in its cities by 2030
Urbanization – World & India
Source – UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Reports, World Bank Reports, CIA World Factbook
3. To sustain its urban populace, India must by
2030
- 900 million sq mtrs of commercial &
residential space
- construct 7400 kms of metros and subways
- pave 2.5 billion sq miles of roads
- invest $96 billion to increase water supply
- invest $100 billion to treat its sewage
By 2030, if India does not act
- demand for affordable housing will exceed
supply by 4 times
- demand for rail based mass transit will be 2.5
times the supply
- demand for private transit will be double the
supply
- demand for water will be double the supply
- demand for sewage treatment will be 3.5
times the supply
Rank City Country Population Area sq. kms Density
1 Mumbai India 14,350,000 484 29,650
2 Kolkata India 12,700,000 531 23,900
8 Chennai India 5,950,000 414 14,350
13 Delhi India 14,300,000 1,295 11,050
19 Bangalore India 5,400,000 534 10,100
India’s Urban Explosion
Source – India Brand Equity Foundation Reports, Mckinsey Quarterly Reports, The Economist
4. Problems with JnNURM
• Poor planning
• Acute capacity deficit at municipal level
• Focus on expenditure related targets and not
on service outcomes
• Low involvement of citizens
The issues and projects are larger and should not be left for civic bodies alone
Investment of more than $20 billion over 7 years in 71 cities
Ex. Nagpur city
• Bought 400 new buses and handed it over to a
private party, just to realize that it had no garage
or place to park the new buses
• Went ahead with 24*7 water supply project,
realized after the implementation of the 1st
phase that the water pressure was very low,
resulting in protests by citizens
Civic bodies award the projects in hurry just to achieve the investment
targets set by the government
5. 1. Expert Planning Committee
• Planning process should be top-down
• Civic bodies do not possess the expertise to implement
huge projects
• Start with few cities with very high growth rates
• Sanction funds only after proper plan is proposed and
clearances received
• Indian cities have high population density
• Very few cities can handle increase in FSI
• Let the expert committee decide how every individual city
can expand and accommodate the population influx
• Find thee locations where totally new cities are needed
START WITH BASICS
We do not want mega cities, but sustainable cities
6. 2. Satellite/ twin cities
Give people the reason to move to the new
place
Reason: Availability of jobs, safety, better
civic amenities and infrastructure
How do we ensure that: Shift government
offices from old cities to their satellite cities
• No matter how much money is infused, existing cities can not cope up with the
increasing population
• Construct high speed metro rails connecting the two city centers
• Ensure all the underground work is done before transferring the land – high
capacity pipelines, electric wires, etc
Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar
Hyderabad-Secunderabad
Mumbai-Navi Mumbai
7. 2.1 Shifting of Government Offices
Benefits
•The large space occupied by government offices gets
opened up
•Can be used for low budget settlements, community
centers and parks which are desperately needed by
Indian cities
•The shifting of government offices will give a reason
to the citizens to shift, and private builders to
construct new townships
•Spreading of government offices will reduce law and
order problem as the security services will not be
concentrated at one place
Shifting
government offices
Open
up large
space
Form a
new
satellite
city
• Form a separate civic body/division that will specifically look after any new construction outside a
particular city limit, as well as the new satellite city
8. 2.2 Shifting of Cricket Stadiums and constructing new Railway Stations
• Shift the existing International cricket
stadiums to the new city
• Citizens will still travel the distance to watch
cricket matches
• Convert the old stadiums into sports coaching
academy or hockey/football stadiums, which
needs attention
• Built a new railway station for the satellite city
• Some of the trains that went through the old
station should stop at the new one, so that the
traffic gets divided
• Usually, the area around the railway stations is
the most crowded part of the city- illegal
hawkers, incoming traffic and congested place
make things worse
• The area around these stadiums and railway stations could be decongested
• With infrastructure and basic services in place, these satellite cities can act as growth drivers
• There is a limit to the changes that can be brought to the existing infrastructure
• With high influx of population, providing civic amenities to all in the old cities becomes difficult
9. • The basic problem while implementing the civic amenities
is population density of cities, and that too is increasing
• If we could reduce or atleast restrict it, providing civic
amenities will not be as challenging as it is now
• Most of the existing cities are not sustainable, with
increased problems of water supply, sanitation, drainage
system, traffic, issues with parking of vehicles, etc
• The infrastructure that was built to handle X million
people, now has to handle 4X to 5X people
• A separate agency needs to look after newer
areas/expanded localities
• Then only the local body can concentrate on
civic duties like
- Conservation, augmentation and recycling of
urban water
- Urban sanitation/low cost sanitation
- Implementation of community toilet complex
New satellite cities should be built- to save our crumbling cities, provide world
class civic amenities and drive growth
Summing Up..