The document discusses ideas for ensuring world-class civic amenities in future Indian cities through sustainable urban planning and development. It proposes ideas in several areas: smarter building and urban planning using green roofs and permeable pavement; an ultra-light rail public transportation system; open defecation free cities and improved sanitation systems; preserving open spaces and implementing riparian buffers to protect the environment; renewable energy sources like compressed air storage and increased solar/wind efficiency; and reducing waste through recycling and waste-to-energy plants. The goal is to plan cities that are socially inclusive, environmentally sustainable and promote economic development.

1. MANTHAN TOPIC: FUTURE CITIES
Ensuring world class civic amenities in urban India
Team details :-
Basu Bhattacharjee
Kumari Geetanjali
Neha Singh
Sandeep Kumar Panda
Swikruti Mishra
SCHOOL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY,
KIIT University , Bhubaneswar , Odisha
Civic amenities are cultural elements of a
community with which residents and
visitors engage; which enhance our quality
of life; which promote life-long learning
and social exchange; which promote
regional economic development.

2. Future city
Smarter
building and
urban planning
Transportation
Sanitation
Environment
Waste
Management
Energy
 Employ design techniques, materials,
and life cycle planning that reduce
energy requirements and promote
sustainability.
 Mobility, growth and
system change,
including land use and
transportation
alternatives.
 Avoid materials and planning patterns that
contribute to global warming, while
encouraging techniques that provide natural
cooling and air filtration as part of the project.
 Use planning and
investment in waste
management systems to
add value to urban
neighborhoods and
discourage suburban
sprawl into sensitive areas
 Promote use of species and
planting techniques that reduce
need for irrigation and support
long-term sustainability.
 Equal importance to
building of physical
infrastructure (e.g.
electricity grids) as well as
energy affordability,
reliability and commercial
viability. Delivering energy
services to households and
businesses that are in line
with consumers' ability to
pay.
 An economically viable,
socially acceptable, and
technically and
institutionally appropriate
sustainable sanitation
system, while protecting the
environment and natural
resources.

3. HOUSING
• Total urban population (2011 census) – 37.7 crores
• Access to housing (2001 census)
• Establishment of dense slums-major headache in
Indian cities
• Non availability of developed land and ineffective and
unfavorable land management
• Inadequate Fiscal Incentives
• Un-planned growth of settlements
• Financial and man-power shortage
• Development of SUSTAINABLE ARCHIETECHURE -
“The Container Settlement”- use recycled shipping
container to build houses, fitted with rainwater harvesting
system and biogas plant
• Shifting of slum population to these low cost settlement.
• Need to create more job opportunities in rural areas to stop
migration, improving rural infrastructure- developing a
symbiotic rural-urban relationship
• Retrofit existing neighborhoods, Infill development, Green
infrastructure
• Use of Occupancy sensors to check on number of person
per locality
• Provision of community spaces, parks, green alleys
• Special housing provision for single mothers and deserted
senior citizen
Household having %age of households
No. of exclusive
rooms
2.3
One room 35.1
Two rooms 29.5
Greater than 2 rooms 33.1
The extent of the overall housing challenge becomes obvious only when we consider that it encompasses not only
the current backlog in housing provision but also the expected urban population explosion over the next 50 years

4. TRANSPORTATION
• ULTRA-LIGHT Rail :- Solar-electric rail transit system based on solar racing car
technology.
Lower energy consumption.
Virtually silent, autonomous, with opportunity charging at stations. With electric
propulsion, it will have low maintenance.
Aerodynamic, low profile, unlike a bus or train, but like an oversized sports car.
Priority will be given to local development and fabrication.
MAIN OBJECTIVES OF TRANSPORTATION PLANNING-
• Finding renewable sources of energy suitable to the mobility requirement
• Achieving greater efficiency.
• Energy and vehicle alternatives, including "superefficient" cars,
alternative fuels and emissions reduction policy
• Social cost analysis of alternative fuels
• Promotion of
Inverted traffic
pyramid strategy
• Electromagnetic mass
transit system on
road.
• Promotion of bicycle
and tricycles on road
Inverted traffic pyramid
Sustainable transportation options can serve to attract and accommodate the varied needs and
desires of urban residents, and are often part of a long-term strategy that includes the
integration of various systems, both across geographies and modes of travel.

5. • POOR AWARENESS: Sanitation has been accorded low priority
• LACK OF AN INTEGRATED CITY-WIDE APPROACH:
Sanitation investments are currently planned in a piece-meal
manner
• LIMITED TECHNOLOGY CHOICES: Technologies have been
focused on limited options
• REACHING THE UN-SERVED AND POOR: Urban poor
communities as well other residents of informal settlements have
been constrained by lack of tenure, space or economic constraints,
in obtaining affordable access to safe sanitation
• LACK OF DEMAND RESPONSIVENESS: Sanitation has been
provided by public agencies in a supply-driven manner, with little
regard for demands and preferences of households as customers of
sanitation services.
SANITATION
• ACHIEVING OPEN DEFECATION FREE CITIES-
a) Promoting access to households with safe sanitation facilities
(including proper disposal arrangements);
b) Promoting community-planned and managed toilets
c) Adequate availability and 100 % upkeep and management of Public
Sanitation
• TECHNIQUES TO AVOID DRAINAGE FAILURES:-
1.Permiable Pavements :-
a) Reduces the rate and
quantity of storm water runoff
a) Reduces stress on the sewer system
b) Recharges ground water
ALLEY DRAINAGE :- All alleys will be properly graded and pitched to
allow water to run to the center of the alley and then flow to the street. This
prevents the need for additional sewer infrastructure
• AWARENESS GENERATION AND BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
Generating awareness about sanitation and its linkages with public and
environmental
(%age
households
with
toilets)
Assessment of the investment needs of system improvement, for plugging leakages, for ensuring more equitable distribution, and measures
required to be taken for managerial autonomy and performance improvement has to be made.

6. • LAND AND ECOSYSTEM
DEGRADATION
• ENVIRONMENTAL
HAZARDS:
{Natural hazards
(e.g., floods, hurricanes,
earthquakes, landslides)
Man-made hazards
(e.g., chemical spills, industrial
accidents, chronic exposure)}
• LOSS OF CULTURAL
AND HISTORIC
PROPERTY
• CONGESTED
LIFESTYLE AND
LIVING CONDITIONS
• POLLUTION AT ITS
PEAK
( air, water , noise)
ENVIRONMENTAL SITE ASSESSMENT:-
• conduction of Environmental site assessment to identify the basic site history, and maps existing
resource constraints (floodplains, wetlands, streams, springs, natural area remnants, etc.).
OPEN SPACE PROTECTION:-
• Preserve open space areas containing significant natural and cultural resources.
• Protection of the value of natural areas and historic sites, build public parks and recreational centres.
• Identification and nurturing Green belt zones
GREEN ROADS AND PARKING LOTS:-
• Use of materials and design standards that reduce impervious surfaces and pollutant load.
• Site design strategies include- narrower and shorter streets, smaller rights-of-way, smaller turn-
arounds, open channel drainage design, smaller parking lots based on realistic parking demand
data or shared parking, smaller parking stalls and drive aisles, use of infiltration practices for
smaller drainage areas, and/or the use of permeable pavers for overflow parking areas.
RIPARIAN BUFFERS AND NATURAL HABITAT:-
• Preserve and restore natural habitat and healthy riparian ecosystems. preservation. and restoration of
lands immediately adjacent to aquatic ecosystems. These systems are the most ecologically productive
and offer the best opportunity to achieve the multiple objectives of preserving threatened and
endangered species, reducing pollutant loading from urban runoff, maintaining stable stream banks,
providing a corridor for species
RETROFITTING EXISTING COMMUNITIES:-
• Bio retention facilities,
• Storm water quality control measures,
• Rain barrels, Bioswales, Roof top gardening
ENVIRONMENT
In 2040, global energy demand will be about 30 percent higher compared to 2010 as economic output more than doubles and
prosperity expands across a world whose population will grow to nearly nine billion people

7. WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT:-Use planning and investment in wastewater
systems to add value to urban neighborhoods and discourage suburban sprawl into
sensitive areas.
RECYCLED PAVEMENT-Recycled concrete aggregate and Slag(by-product of
steel) can be used in the concrete mix and as a base beneath surface paving, reducing
industrial waste. Ground tire rubber can be used in porous asphalt and reclaimed
asphalt pavement in nonporous asphalt.
Benefits
• Reduces waste hauled to landfills
• Reduces the need to extract natural resources
• Develops new tech
• Setting of advanced tech WTE(waste to energy)plants:-
• Gasification and plasma arc gasification methods are used to convert organic
materials into a synthetic gas (syngas) made up of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
The gas is then burnt to produce electricity and steam.
• WASTE TO FUEL
• BIOFUEL PRODUCTION- . BIOGAS and SYNGAS
• LANDFILL gas also has an up-and-coming role in this field. Most landfill-gas-
to-energy projects involve turning otherwise harmful emissions into electricity to
power homes. But it is also being increasingly used as a vehicle fuel or as a
substitute for mains household gas supply.
Concrete Pavement
produced using slag ,
recycled concrete and/or
ground tire rubber
Using planning and investment in wastewater systems to add value to urban
neighborhoods and discourage suburban sprawl into sensitive areas.

8. ENERGY
Energy which is replenish able within a human lifetime and causes no long-term damage to the environment
• Continued reliance on fossil fuels, especially from
unconventional sources- greater negative impact and risks
to the environment and places pressure on natural
resources
• Existing energy generation through renewables is not
competitive with current carbon intensive energy sources
• No long-term solution to the storage of highly-radioactive
nuclear waste exists.
• No existing treaty or organization today can regulate
nuclear weapons’ proliferation without severely limiting
or denying developing countries’ access to civil nuclear
power.
Developing effective approaches for scaling-up energy service
delivery, through a combination of field-proven and innovative
business models that are financially and institutionally sustainable.
• COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM-Uses off-
peak electricity to compress air and store it in airtight underground
caverns
• UNDER-GROUND THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE-
• SETTING OF FLYING WINFDFARMS-high-altitude, nano-
tube cable tethered, above-ground wind farms
• BIOFUEL BUTANOL PRODUCTION PLANT
• INCREASE SOLAR CELLAND WIND TURBINE
EFFICIENCY
• REPLACEMENT OF ROAD LIGHTS BY
BIOLUMINISCENCE
• Mobilizing and expanding financing options aimed at achieving
market transformation to catalyze public and private finance. This
includes creating enabling policy and regulatory frameworks and
removing barriers to energy efficiency, renewable energy and
sustainable urban transport to better access the market
• Strengthening policy and institutional frameworks consistent with
low-emission, climate-resilient development
Electricity generation,1970-2025

9. PROPOSED IDEAS FOR FUTURE CITY
• GREEN ROOFS FOR STORM WATER
MANAGEMENT-
a) ENERGY SAVINGS– it can provide insulation from
the heat and the cold.
b) EXTEND LIFE OF ROOF– protect roofing
membranes from extreme temperature fluctuations and
the negative impacts of ultraviolet radiation.
c) ALLEY DRAINAGE – it will allow water to run to the
centre of alley and this will prevent from flooding.
d) PERMEABLE PAVEMENT –it reduces the rate and
quality of storm water runoff and recharges ground
water.
SOUND INSULATION – designed to insulate against
outside noises.
FIRE RESISTANCE – It can help stop the spread of fire to
and from building rooftops.
SMART GRID SYSTEM- Grid could automatically turn on
domestic devices such as washing machines at night when
consumption is low and regulate heating, water supply and
air conditioning systems.
• SENSOR DRIVEN communities, where bus timetables
appear on screens in eco-friendly homes and fridges send
tweeted messages to replenish the salad drawer,
• WIND BELTS- it can harness the power of the wind to
generate electricity .It employs a taut membrane that,
when air passes over it, vibrates between metal coils to
generate electricity. It can be used on the facades and
roofs of existing buildings as a sculptural element
• Solar panels incorporated into street poles, and vertical
wind turbines which form a rhythm in the streetscape.
• Intelligent’ toilets with an automated flushing system
• Hanging rails to avoid crowding or traffic.
• reducing the volume of waste going to landfill sites.
REFLECTING PAVEMENT- Reflects sunlight and less
heat is radiated . This therefore reduces the cooling cost
and improves air quality.
STREAM DAY LIGHTING-It can restore floodplain and
aquatic habitat areas, reduce runoff velocities and be
integrated into pedestrian walkway or bike path design.
Urban India understands the importance of dialogue. It
confirms that you and your opinions actually
count. In order to initiate this exchange of views, we intend to
open a Feedback section from the
upcoming issue

10. • HOUSEHOLD RECYCLING WASTE -A relief for passengers , tickets can be replaced by giving plastic bottles instead of
paying bills
• Installation of solar panels in every house to be made compulsory .
• Usage of public transport should be entertain for far distances instead of personal vehicles.
• DARK SKY COMPLIANT LIGHT FIXTURES– to direct lights downward especially to be introduced in pathways. This
will be energy efficient because adequate light levels can be maintained.
• RAISING AWARENESS OF THE USE OF MORE SUSTAINABLE MATERIAL IN THE CONSTRUCTION
INDUSTRY AND PROMOTING GREENER ENERGY USAGE AMONG THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE
INCLUSION OF THESE PRACTICES IN THE CIVIC AMENITY CENTRE.
THANK YOU
• Urban environment design manual
• Transportation planning for sustainability
• Sustainable redevelopment plan
• www.welldonestuffs.com
• Concepts for future electricity production
• www.unescap.com
• www.undp.org
• www.sustainablecities.org
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