Globally, cities are being misused, abused, bruised, manipulated, mutilated under the adverse impact of rapid, uncontrolled and unregulated growth of population, uncontrolled expansion of physical space and massive rural-urban migration. Haphazard, unplanned and sub-standard development are becoming pattern of urban growth. Globally, cities are being treated as commodity, used , traded and speculated for generating more money and large wealth for individuals, communities, states and nations for making them rich and prosperous. Despite creating large space for human living, working, care of body & spirit, mobility and employment, cities are made to reel under enormous stress bordering on deficient infrastructure and services. Despite consuming minimum land for housing large population in a limited area, cities are being made places of large land speculation. Considering the major implications of cities in promoting sustainability, economy, productivity, employment, quality of life ;urban spaces need care and healing on priority. It is not the city which are culprits for all the social, economic and environmental ills, it is in fact the way cities have been treated and made to grow, develop and expand. Cities need care and focus to understand the genesis of their problems and evolving appropriate solutions to heal them. Cities need appropriate empowerment, supportive planning, enabling resources and state of art technologies which enable them create happy and healthy spaces for human living. Cities need to be treated like organic/ living entities, requiring appropriate environment, infrastructure and services to enable them to play their designated role in human emancipation and promoting global sustainability effectively and efficiently. Cities would require innovations and out of box thinking to make them safe, resilient, inclusive and sustainable, as mandated by SDG 11.Looking at the entire context of the cities, their growth, development and management, text of paper tries to suggest framework for healing cities to make them sustainable and livable by involving; rationalizing planning; empowering cities; inventing new orders of cities; making cities compact/spongy; rationalizing mobility; greening cities; building/creating capacity; involving communities; preserving art and architecture; bringing nature into cities; planning with nature using sun, space and greenery as the basic essentials/elements of urban planning; ensuring good governance and leveraging technologies.
Sustainable city planning aims to design cities in a way that considers social, economic, and environmental impacts without compromising future generations' ability to enjoy the same benefits. This involves minimizing energy, water, food, waste and pollution outputs. Sustainable cities benefit from dense urban living that promotes social interaction and public transit use while reducing environmental impacts. Key methods for sustainable city planning include renewable energy sources, green spaces, efficient public transport, optimal building density, urban farming, and walkable neighborhoods. Sustainable architecture, drainage systems, and transportation modes can also contribute to more sustainable urban development.
All cities remain unique and distinct. No two cities are similar. Each city has its strength , weakness , threats and opportunities. Each city has a different and distinct gene, fabric and social structure. Cities are manmade entities, always evolving and devolving, never defined never finite. They are anti-thesis to nature and natural environment. Rapid urbanizations remain the greatest threat to environment and ecology. From the narratives given, it can be visualized that making cities great places to live and work, remains both complex, difficult and daunting task, requiring out of box thinking, adopting multiple` approaches and innovating state of art options for planning , development and management of cities. Rapid pace and massive influx of population in the urban areas offers enormous opportunities and challenges to innovate, experiment, evolve and devolve to the planners, architects, engineers, professionals, developers, administrators, politicians, urban local bodies, parastatal agencies, private sector and other stakeholders to make cities great entities and best place for living and working; meeting all basic human needs; promoting ease of doing business; promoting sharing; creating enabling environment and spaces for all human operations. How effectively and efficiently we meet these challenges and make best use of opportunities offered in the urban domain, shall hold the key to the sustainability, growth and development of the communities and nations. All cities can be made great places to live and work, depending upon how residents, local communities and all stakeholders commit, involve, innovate and experiment to achieve the objective. Planners hold the key to make cities sustainable but they need to empower themselves , innovate and find out of box solutions and work with people/stakeholders based on the prevailing ground realities. Planning and designing cities and villages will require working on the same platform, synergizing their potential and marching in the same direction. Without involving and planning villages, cities will have little chance to become livable and productive for all.
Making Cities Zero Carbon -- issues and optionJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Cities are known for their dualities and contradictions, positivity and negativities, inclusion and exclusion, poverty and prosperity, luxury housing and slums, planned and unplanned development, innovations and depravity, good and bad, pleasant and ugliness. All these contradictions are the outcome of the way we are planning, designing and managing cities. If cities are bringing prosperity, they are also creating global crisis. Majority of global ills of global warming, rising temperature, natural crisis is the outcome of how we are treating the cities. Cities are being conceived as anti-thesis to nature and accordingly they are creating crisis including crisis of very human existence. Cities need to be treated in a better and rational manner by planning and designing them in logical manner. Cities need to be looked as integral part of nature and not looked as a commodity for sale and making profit. Cities not to be treated as a market place where one hopes to earn money and generate wealth. They have to be looked as places for human living – giving human beings an environment, where they can lead happy and healthy life. Cities need to be planned with nature using natural resources. They need to be made more effective and efficient. Cities need to be made producers rather than consumers of natural and non-renewable resources. They need to be made more livable and supportive to human living and nature. Cities need respect and care. We need to heal its wounds. If cites continue to be treated like they are being treated now, they are going to become major source of impending crisis , making human living most challenging on this planet. Accordingly, we need to relook, review, redefine and revise our options of planning, travel and creating built environment.
Promoting Urban Environment Through Eco- CitiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper tries to define the role and importance of environmentally sustainable cities to promote urban environment , minimises carbon footprints and reduce global warmng
This document provides an overview of the concept of a compact city presented by a group of students. It begins with listing the group members and structure of the presentation. It then discusses the origin of compact cities, defines what a compact city is, and outlines the compact city model. Key characteristics of compact cities are presented for both developed and developing countries. The document contrasts compact cities with urban sprawl and defines an eco-compact city model. It lists indicators to measure compact cities and discusses both positive and negative impacts. Finally, it provides examples of cities that depict the compact city model.
The document discusses the concept of integrated townships as a potential solution to crowded urban areas. Integrated townships are clusters of housing, commercial businesses, and associated infrastructure like roads, schools, hospitals located together. They aim to create a sustainable living ecosystem with residential and commercial spaces supported by infrastructure. The key objectives of integrated townships are providing convenience through proximity and offering both living and employment opportunities in one place. Sustainable development means achieving a balance between economic/social development and environmental protection. Parameters for sustainable urban development discussed in the document include regional planning, high density development, redevelopment/redensification, and emphasis on open spaces/vegetation.
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Operational and development complexities of cities call for new state of art agenda to be defined for planning, development and management of cities in this era of globalisation and liberlisation of economies. Looking at the enormous population growth and large count of people marching and opting for cities, growth and development of urban areas is emerging as the major issue. Cities known for positivity and negativity can be major source of disasters- both physical, social and environmental. Cities will and are likely to pose major threat to global sustainability. For making planet earth more sustainable and livable ,planning , development and governance of the cities have to be redefined both by professionals, communities, people and parastatal agencies. Planning for sustainable cities must include and involve poor and meeting the basic human needs of living of the poorest of the poor. City planning, development, governance and mobility needs new definition.
Sustainable city planning aims to design cities in a way that considers social, economic, and environmental impacts without compromising future generations' ability to enjoy the same benefits. This involves minimizing energy, water, food, waste and pollution outputs. Sustainable cities benefit from dense urban living that promotes social interaction and public transit use while reducing environmental impacts. Key methods for sustainable city planning include renewable energy sources, green spaces, efficient public transport, optimal building density, urban farming, and walkable neighborhoods. Sustainable architecture, drainage systems, and transportation modes can also contribute to more sustainable urban development.
All cities remain unique and distinct. No two cities are similar. Each city has its strength , weakness , threats and opportunities. Each city has a different and distinct gene, fabric and social structure. Cities are manmade entities, always evolving and devolving, never defined never finite. They are anti-thesis to nature and natural environment. Rapid urbanizations remain the greatest threat to environment and ecology. From the narratives given, it can be visualized that making cities great places to live and work, remains both complex, difficult and daunting task, requiring out of box thinking, adopting multiple` approaches and innovating state of art options for planning , development and management of cities. Rapid pace and massive influx of population in the urban areas offers enormous opportunities and challenges to innovate, experiment, evolve and devolve to the planners, architects, engineers, professionals, developers, administrators, politicians, urban local bodies, parastatal agencies, private sector and other stakeholders to make cities great entities and best place for living and working; meeting all basic human needs; promoting ease of doing business; promoting sharing; creating enabling environment and spaces for all human operations. How effectively and efficiently we meet these challenges and make best use of opportunities offered in the urban domain, shall hold the key to the sustainability, growth and development of the communities and nations. All cities can be made great places to live and work, depending upon how residents, local communities and all stakeholders commit, involve, innovate and experiment to achieve the objective. Planners hold the key to make cities sustainable but they need to empower themselves , innovate and find out of box solutions and work with people/stakeholders based on the prevailing ground realities. Planning and designing cities and villages will require working on the same platform, synergizing their potential and marching in the same direction. Without involving and planning villages, cities will have little chance to become livable and productive for all.
Making Cities Zero Carbon -- issues and optionJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Cities are known for their dualities and contradictions, positivity and negativities, inclusion and exclusion, poverty and prosperity, luxury housing and slums, planned and unplanned development, innovations and depravity, good and bad, pleasant and ugliness. All these contradictions are the outcome of the way we are planning, designing and managing cities. If cities are bringing prosperity, they are also creating global crisis. Majority of global ills of global warming, rising temperature, natural crisis is the outcome of how we are treating the cities. Cities are being conceived as anti-thesis to nature and accordingly they are creating crisis including crisis of very human existence. Cities need to be treated in a better and rational manner by planning and designing them in logical manner. Cities need to be looked as integral part of nature and not looked as a commodity for sale and making profit. Cities not to be treated as a market place where one hopes to earn money and generate wealth. They have to be looked as places for human living – giving human beings an environment, where they can lead happy and healthy life. Cities need to be planned with nature using natural resources. They need to be made more effective and efficient. Cities need to be made producers rather than consumers of natural and non-renewable resources. They need to be made more livable and supportive to human living and nature. Cities need respect and care. We need to heal its wounds. If cites continue to be treated like they are being treated now, they are going to become major source of impending crisis , making human living most challenging on this planet. Accordingly, we need to relook, review, redefine and revise our options of planning, travel and creating built environment.
Promoting Urban Environment Through Eco- CitiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper tries to define the role and importance of environmentally sustainable cities to promote urban environment , minimises carbon footprints and reduce global warmng
This document provides an overview of the concept of a compact city presented by a group of students. It begins with listing the group members and structure of the presentation. It then discusses the origin of compact cities, defines what a compact city is, and outlines the compact city model. Key characteristics of compact cities are presented for both developed and developing countries. The document contrasts compact cities with urban sprawl and defines an eco-compact city model. It lists indicators to measure compact cities and discusses both positive and negative impacts. Finally, it provides examples of cities that depict the compact city model.
The document discusses the concept of integrated townships as a potential solution to crowded urban areas. Integrated townships are clusters of housing, commercial businesses, and associated infrastructure like roads, schools, hospitals located together. They aim to create a sustainable living ecosystem with residential and commercial spaces supported by infrastructure. The key objectives of integrated townships are providing convenience through proximity and offering both living and employment opportunities in one place. Sustainable development means achieving a balance between economic/social development and environmental protection. Parameters for sustainable urban development discussed in the document include regional planning, high density development, redevelopment/redensification, and emphasis on open spaces/vegetation.
Policies and Planning for Making Cities Net Zero Carbon - Copy.docxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Operational and development complexities of cities call for new state of art agenda to be defined for planning, development and management of cities in this era of globalisation and liberlisation of economies. Looking at the enormous population growth and large count of people marching and opting for cities, growth and development of urban areas is emerging as the major issue. Cities known for positivity and negativity can be major source of disasters- both physical, social and environmental. Cities will and are likely to pose major threat to global sustainability. For making planet earth more sustainable and livable ,planning , development and governance of the cities have to be redefined both by professionals, communities, people and parastatal agencies. Planning for sustainable cities must include and involve poor and meeting the basic human needs of living of the poorest of the poor. City planning, development, governance and mobility needs new definition.
Redefining Planning Through Planning EducationJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation tries to showcase the relationship between quality of planning Education and quality of education, challenges faced by the profession and option which need to be exercised to make education more qualitative and responsive the challenges faced.
This document discusses green urbanism principles and their absence in Cairo's urban planning and public spaces. It summarizes that Cairo has experienced uncontrolled growth that has prioritized development for affluent groups over sustainable environments for all. This has negatively impacted public spaces by focusing them on consumption and heavy investment rather than accessibility. The paper then examines green urbanism principles like renewable energy, waste reduction, and livability to propose applying them through new design processes and scale-specific solutions to revitalize Cairo's public spaces and achieve a more sustainable urban model.
Strategies for Promoting Urban SustainabilityJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Indian strategies are needed to manage global warming through ruralization and rational urbanization. Regional planning can help integrate urban and rural settlements to minimize migration and make development more sustainable. Urban planning must be redefined and reinforced to make cities more compact and sustainable through vertical development and transit-oriented design. Public transportation, cycling, and road pricing can promote sustainable mobility. Green buildings and smart technologies can reduce energy use and emissions from the built environment. Ruralization is also important as rural areas still house most of India's population and are inextricably linked to urban and national development.
Opting for Town Planning- as a career Option.pptxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Town planning as a profession has great value in making cities and human settlements more qualitative, sustainable, livable, productive . Town planning is the only profession which deals holistically and comprehensively with the entire gamut of planning, development and management of human settlements. If this world is to be made more livable, qualitative and promoting the welfare of communities, environment. ecology, there exists no option but to go for town planning profession. Unfortunately role, importance and relevance of planning profession has not been understood, appreciated and the profession remains diluted and muted. It is time ripe enough to relook at the positivity of the profession and take it forward with commitment and sincerity, on the part of profession and professional planners. Profession needs to be revisited, reviewed and redefined to make it more rational, relevant and productive. PPT focuses on the entire gamut of planning profession as an career option.
Built environment created in the past was invariably based on nature and optimally using resources made available by nature to meet the basic requirement of ventilation, heating and cooling of the buildings in order to create ambient environment for quality living. Using local materials and local skills ,built environment created was based on adopting passive approach and passive methods of making buildings sustainable. Cities in the past were made compact to make them human centric, energy efficient, land efficient and promoting safety and security. Mechanism of mixed landuse was used to make cities more humane and social. Cities were treated, planned and designed as integrated entities. Water was valued and innovative mechanisms were used to conserve, preserve and promote availability of water. Streets dominated the planning of human settlements instead of roads. Despite being planned and developed as compact cities, adequate public spaces were made integral part of planning process. Planning focused on creating self-sustaining communities , mutually supporting each other. Fundamental principal was promoting planning and living based on need and not greed. Nature was the governing principle of planning and nature based solutions were evolved, devolved and made applicable in making human settlements sustainable and livable. Back to basic remains a great option and agenda to understand the principles which can be used to charter the future agenda for growth and development.
Paper is an attempt to look at the Indian urban settlements in terms of their planning, designing, travel, buildings etc, identify problems they have and options which can be leveraged to make them more effective, efficient, livable, productive and sustainable
Smart growth is an urban planning theory that promotes compact, transit-oriented, walkable development as an alternative to low-density, car-dependent sprawl. The key principles of smart growth include mixing land uses, creating walkable neighborhoods, providing a range of housing and transportation options, preserving open space, and encouraging community collaboration in development decisions. While there is no single definition, smart growth generally aims to more efficiently use infrastructure, preserve natural resources, and create more livable communities.
The document discusses the Eco2 Cities initiative, which aims to help cities in developing countries achieve greater ecological and economic sustainability through integrated urban planning and management. It provides examples of six cities - Curitiba, Brazil; Stockholm, Sweden; Singapore; Yokohama, Japan; Brisbane, Australia; and Auckland, New Zealand - that have implemented various sustainable practices. It also outlines some of the challenges faced in applying these approaches in developing country contexts, such as limited resources, institutional barriers, and dependence on outdated models of urban planning. The document concludes by providing "stepping stones" or recommendations for cities to begin adapting the Eco2 principles to their local needs and contexts.
Redefining master plans to promote smart and sustainable cities JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Master plans/ Development Plans, used as the most potent weapon by the town planner, to promote planned and orderly development has done more damage than good to the cities. Consuming large span of time, involving lot of manpower and requiring considerable resources, master plans has made planners chase the development instead of leading the development. Rigidity of master plans, based on defining the use of every piece of land, has made the master plans irrelevant, irrational and illogical in the face fast changing urban dynamics. Master plans, prepared for a period spanning over two decades, try to freeze the city. As planners, when we do not know our own future, what competency, capacity, expertise and capability we have to define the future of the cities. In the process, majority of cities have been suffering from illegal, sub-standard, haphazard and unplanned growth. Master plans have accordingly, emerged as the major road block in promoting planned urban development and making cities sustainable . For promoting planned development and making city growth both rational and dynamic, focus of planning should be on redefining and putting in place a new order of urban planning, development options and management strategies besides suggesting new format of Master Plans to make cities smart, more humane, equitable, just, efficient, productive, sustainable and providers of assured quality of life to all existing and future urban residents including poorest of the poor.
Urban planning for smart cities - Smart tools for Smart CitiesVivek Pai
The document provides an overview of urban planning for smart cities in India. It discusses key concepts like what makes a city smart, why smart cities are important, how smart cities will be implemented, and which areas and technologies will be focused on. The main points are:
- Smart cities use technology and infrastructure to improve quality of life for citizens across areas like governance, transportation, housing, healthcare, etc.
- They are important to promote sustainable and inclusive development through compact urban planning and smart solutions.
- Implementation at the city level will be done by a Special Purpose Vehicle created for each smart city project.
- Focus areas include area-based retrofitting and redevelopment as well as new greenfield projects and pan-
Redefining master plans for smart and sustainable citiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Master plans have traditionally focused on rigid land use planning, but this has made cities inflexible and unable to adapt to dynamic urban growth. It has also promoted unequal and unsustainable development. There is a need to redefine master plans to make cities more smart, sustainable, and equitable. New master plans should be flexible, community-oriented, and focus on transit-oriented compact development, energy efficiency, and inclusiveness. They should involve a variety of experts and stakeholders and use new technologies to guide sustainable urban form and development over time rather than rigidly defining land uses. The goal is to minimize urban problems and make cities higher quality places for all residents.
Redefining master plans for smart and sustainable citiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper tries to relook at the master plan in its prevalent form , content and procedure and tries to redefine the agenda for making it a positive tool for leveraging the sustainable development of urban settlements
Though 100 smart cities is being talked around many times, common people still doesn't clearly know what exactly the project is. This presentation will help to orient yourselves to the 100 smart cities project. This is in no way the ideas of the author or is influenced by the authors opinions. The presentation is purely based on the vision, mission and strategies of India Govt guidelines.
1. INTRODUCTION TO SUBJECT ITP
2. DEFINITION OF INTRODUCTION TO PLANNING ITP
3. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF URBAN PLANNING
a. ELOBRATIONS
4. TERMS USED IN PLANNING AND THEIR DEFINITION
5. RELATIONSHIP OF CRP WITH OTHER FIELDS
a. RELATIONSHIP WITH ARCHITECHTURE
b. RELATIONSHIP WITH CIVIL ENGINEERING
c. RELATIONSHIP WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
d. RELATIONSHIP WITH SURVYING
e. RELATIONSHIP WITH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECHTURE
f. RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIOLOGY
g. RELATIONSHIP WITH ECONOMICS
6. IMPORTANCE OF URBAN PLANNING
7. FUNCTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL PLANNER
8. NEW TRENDS IN PLANNING
9. GEOGRPHICAL TOPOGRAPHICAL AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN RELATION TO PLANNING
10. JUSTIFICATIONS FOR PLANNING
11. PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING
12. LEVELS AND ELEMENTS OF PLANNING
13. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF SIR PATRICK GEDDES
14. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF SIR EBNEZIR HOWARD
15. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF LE COUBISER
16. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF FRANK LOYD WRIGHT
17. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF LEWIS MUMFORD
18. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF C.A DOXIADIS
The Congress for the New Urbanism views issues like sprawl, segregation, environmental damage, and loss of heritage as interconnected problems. They advocate for restoring existing city centers, reconfiguring suburbs into walkable neighborhoods, and conserving natural environments through public policy and development practices. This includes designing communities that are pedestrian-friendly, transit-accessible, and promote diversity through mixed-use development and affordable housing options distributed throughout regions.
This document provides information about green cities and discusses examples of green cities like Vancouver and Gandhinagar. A green city is designed to minimize environmental impact and resource use through strategies like renewable energy, urban farming, green buildings, and public transport. Vancouver has led the world through its waste reduction programs and goal to be carbon neutral. Gandhinagar, India has over 53% green cover from its large number of trees. The document emphasizes that green cities are livable, sustainable, and help future generations meet their needs through ecological design.
City-UD_m.arch Unit 1_lec1 and 2 and 305.pdfNeha Bansal
Urban form refers to the size, shape, and patterns of development of a city. It is influenced by geography, history, transportation networks, and planning or lack thereof. Common urban forms include the compact city, sprawling city, concentric/radial city, and linear city. Understanding a city's form provides insights into how residents utilize and experience urban space and helps in planning for better connectivity, mobility, and quality of life.
KKKH4284 URBAN PLANNING OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TASK 5 : LOCAL AGENDA
LECTURERS :
PROF. IR. DR. RIZA ATIQ ABDULLAH O.K. RAHMAT
DR NAZRI BORHAN
DR NORLIZA MOHD AKHIR
Cities of the future will have to be viewed, considered, planned, designed, constructed and managed based on consideration of sustainability, inclusiveness, safety and security. Cities will have to be role model of conserving land, minimizing the the consumption of energy; making cities water neutral , zero waste, material efficient. Promoting, preserving and making value addition to Climate, environment , ecology and bio-diversity shall be the underlying philosophy of urban planning. Cities will be planned to meet the basic needs of all inhabitants and not their greed. Cities will be held in the co-operative ownership eliminating individual ownership. Cities will be mandated to meet all the basic needs of human living including shelter, food, employment , clothing, education and healthcare. Poorest of the poor will have all the basic amenities. Unplanned, haphazard and sub-standard development will have no place in the city development. Technology will be used for promoting efficiency, economy, productivity and transparency in decision making and working besides connecting communities . Cities will be managed by professionals- architects, planners and engineers and not be bureaucrats, having no knowledge and understanding of the urban development. Cities will create ownership and commitment on the part of all stakeholders. each city will have a well defined vision and mission to achieve. Local governance will have precedent over state's dictates and policies.
cities remain complex, inhumane, serving rich, ignoring poor, ignoring poor, caring rich, promoting exclusion. depriving majority from basic human essentials, ignoring misery, promoting poverty and leveraging prosperity. Cities remain studded with dualities and contradictions, always evolving, changing and chasing opportunities and making people miserable .
Heritage Conservation.Strategies and Options for Preserving India HeritageJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation looks at the role , relevance and importance of built and natural heritage, issues faced by heritage in the Indian context and options which can be leveraged to preserve and conserve the heritage.It also lists the challenges faced by the heritage due to rapid urbanisation, land speculation and commercialisation in the urban areas. In addition, ppt lays down the roadmap for the preservation, conservation and making value addition to the available heritage by making it integral part of the planning , designing and management of the human settlements.
Role and Relevance of Architects and architecture in SustainabilityJIT KUMAR GUPTA
This brief text on Role, Relevance and importance of Architects and profession of Architecture in making this world and human settlements more livable, climate responsive and sustainable has been prepared as commitment of the professionals and profession of Architects on this World Environment Day ; June 5th , 2024 , with the hope that profession would be understood, valued ,appreciated and empowered in the right context for enabling it play its designated role in making built environment qualitative, cost-effective, energy-efficient, eco-friendly, safe and sustainable.
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Master plans have traditionally focused on rigid land use planning, but this has made cities inflexible and unable to adapt to dynamic urban growth. It has also promoted unequal and unsustainable development. There is a need to redefine master plans to make cities more smart, sustainable, and equitable. New master plans should be flexible, community-oriented, and focus on transit-oriented compact development, energy efficiency, and inclusiveness. They should involve a variety of experts and stakeholders and use new technologies to guide sustainable urban form and development over time rather than rigidly defining land uses. The goal is to minimize urban problems and make cities higher quality places for all residents.
Redefining master plans for smart and sustainable citiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper tries to relook at the master plan in its prevalent form , content and procedure and tries to redefine the agenda for making it a positive tool for leveraging the sustainable development of urban settlements
Though 100 smart cities is being talked around many times, common people still doesn't clearly know what exactly the project is. This presentation will help to orient yourselves to the 100 smart cities project. This is in no way the ideas of the author or is influenced by the authors opinions. The presentation is purely based on the vision, mission and strategies of India Govt guidelines.
1. INTRODUCTION TO SUBJECT ITP
2. DEFINITION OF INTRODUCTION TO PLANNING ITP
3. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF URBAN PLANNING
a. ELOBRATIONS
4. TERMS USED IN PLANNING AND THEIR DEFINITION
5. RELATIONSHIP OF CRP WITH OTHER FIELDS
a. RELATIONSHIP WITH ARCHITECHTURE
b. RELATIONSHIP WITH CIVIL ENGINEERING
c. RELATIONSHIP WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
d. RELATIONSHIP WITH SURVYING
e. RELATIONSHIP WITH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECHTURE
f. RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIOLOGY
g. RELATIONSHIP WITH ECONOMICS
6. IMPORTANCE OF URBAN PLANNING
7. FUNCTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL PLANNER
8. NEW TRENDS IN PLANNING
9. GEOGRPHICAL TOPOGRAPHICAL AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN RELATION TO PLANNING
10. JUSTIFICATIONS FOR PLANNING
11. PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING
12. LEVELS AND ELEMENTS OF PLANNING
13. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF SIR PATRICK GEDDES
14. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF SIR EBNEZIR HOWARD
15. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF LE COUBISER
16. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF FRANK LOYD WRIGHT
17. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF LEWIS MUMFORD
18. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF C.A DOXIADIS
The Congress for the New Urbanism views issues like sprawl, segregation, environmental damage, and loss of heritage as interconnected problems. They advocate for restoring existing city centers, reconfiguring suburbs into walkable neighborhoods, and conserving natural environments through public policy and development practices. This includes designing communities that are pedestrian-friendly, transit-accessible, and promote diversity through mixed-use development and affordable housing options distributed throughout regions.
This document provides information about green cities and discusses examples of green cities like Vancouver and Gandhinagar. A green city is designed to minimize environmental impact and resource use through strategies like renewable energy, urban farming, green buildings, and public transport. Vancouver has led the world through its waste reduction programs and goal to be carbon neutral. Gandhinagar, India has over 53% green cover from its large number of trees. The document emphasizes that green cities are livable, sustainable, and help future generations meet their needs through ecological design.
City-UD_m.arch Unit 1_lec1 and 2 and 305.pdfNeha Bansal
Urban form refers to the size, shape, and patterns of development of a city. It is influenced by geography, history, transportation networks, and planning or lack thereof. Common urban forms include the compact city, sprawling city, concentric/radial city, and linear city. Understanding a city's form provides insights into how residents utilize and experience urban space and helps in planning for better connectivity, mobility, and quality of life.
KKKH4284 URBAN PLANNING OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TASK 5 : LOCAL AGENDA
LECTURERS :
PROF. IR. DR. RIZA ATIQ ABDULLAH O.K. RAHMAT
DR NAZRI BORHAN
DR NORLIZA MOHD AKHIR
Cities of the future will have to be viewed, considered, planned, designed, constructed and managed based on consideration of sustainability, inclusiveness, safety and security. Cities will have to be role model of conserving land, minimizing the the consumption of energy; making cities water neutral , zero waste, material efficient. Promoting, preserving and making value addition to Climate, environment , ecology and bio-diversity shall be the underlying philosophy of urban planning. Cities will be planned to meet the basic needs of all inhabitants and not their greed. Cities will be held in the co-operative ownership eliminating individual ownership. Cities will be mandated to meet all the basic needs of human living including shelter, food, employment , clothing, education and healthcare. Poorest of the poor will have all the basic amenities. Unplanned, haphazard and sub-standard development will have no place in the city development. Technology will be used for promoting efficiency, economy, productivity and transparency in decision making and working besides connecting communities . Cities will be managed by professionals- architects, planners and engineers and not be bureaucrats, having no knowledge and understanding of the urban development. Cities will create ownership and commitment on the part of all stakeholders. each city will have a well defined vision and mission to achieve. Local governance will have precedent over state's dictates and policies.
cities remain complex, inhumane, serving rich, ignoring poor, ignoring poor, caring rich, promoting exclusion. depriving majority from basic human essentials, ignoring misery, promoting poverty and leveraging prosperity. Cities remain studded with dualities and contradictions, always evolving, changing and chasing opportunities and making people miserable .
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Heritage Conservation.Strategies and Options for Preserving India HeritageJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation looks at the role , relevance and importance of built and natural heritage, issues faced by heritage in the Indian context and options which can be leveraged to preserve and conserve the heritage.It also lists the challenges faced by the heritage due to rapid urbanisation, land speculation and commercialisation in the urban areas. In addition, ppt lays down the roadmap for the preservation, conservation and making value addition to the available heritage by making it integral part of the planning , designing and management of the human settlements.
Role and Relevance of Architects and architecture in SustainabilityJIT KUMAR GUPTA
This brief text on Role, Relevance and importance of Architects and profession of Architecture in making this world and human settlements more livable, climate responsive and sustainable has been prepared as commitment of the professionals and profession of Architects on this World Environment Day ; June 5th , 2024 , with the hope that profession would be understood, valued ,appreciated and empowered in the right context for enabling it play its designated role in making built environment qualitative, cost-effective, energy-efficient, eco-friendly, safe and sustainable.
Bridging gap between resources and responsibilities at Local level.JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Text refers to need, role, relevance and importance of empowering urban local bodies by bridging gap between resources available and responsibilities bestowed, for enabling ULBs to operate and function as institutions of local governance more effectively and efficiently.
Construction Industry Through Artificial Intelligence -.docxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Considering the role, relevance and importance of construction sector in promoting economy, generating employment and creating wealth besides providing infrastructures and amenities, there is need to make the sector more effective, efficient, productive and sustainable. Driven manually, construction sector remains in the slow lane of creating quality built environment which are cost-effective, energy efficient, least consumers of resources and generators of waste. Artificial intelligence can help and empower the construction to make it more valuable, productive and qualitative besides supportive of environment and ecology. However, construction sector must be ready to co-operate and collaborate with IT industry to look for options and opportunities to make construction sector more qualitative and productive. Majority of urban ills and climate related issues can be resolved if Artificial intelligence can be embedded as integral part of the construction industry right prom planning, designing, construction, operation and management of the built environment and infrastructures. Communities and nations will save lot of valuable non-renewable resources if the construction sector is transformed from human led to technology led by the induction of Artificial intelligence. However, Construction industry has to search the areas where Artificial intelligence can be used effectively and intelligently.
Making Urban India a Role Model of Planned Urban Growth a.docxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Known for productivity, promoting economy, employment and innovations cities, when properly planned, rationally developed and professionally managed, have been labelled and recognized as engines of economic growth. Prosperity and urbanisation are known to have positive co-relation with rational urbanisation, leveraging growth and development of any community, city, state and region. In majority of developing countries, where urbanisation remains unregulated, forced largely by rural push and less by urban pull, cities invariably remain in crisis, crisis of population, crisis of poverty, crisis of development and management. Cities need to be cared ,incentivized, empowered and made more productive, effective, efficient and humane.
Redefining Globalization, urbanisation and LocalisationJIT KUMAR GUPTA
If cities are to made more livable, humane and productive, it is time that intent, contents and scope of globalization must be revisited and reviewed, both critically and objectively. Globalisation would need redefinition for promoting universality and inclusiveness among people and nations to have basic amenities and quality of life for all its residents , including poorest of the poor to lead a dignified life. Failure to redefine globalization, rationalise urbanisation, restore localization empowering poor and promoting universalisation and inclusivity; will invariably lead to making SDGs merely a paper exercise. In addition, making the world, cities and communities sustainable, livable, safe and inclusive, would remain merely a dream and a mirage, for future generations and communities, making planet earth as their preferred place of residence.
Knowing, Understanding and Planning Cities- Role and Relevance Physical Plan...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Cities are known for its complexities and operational inefficiencies. cities remain dynamic ,ever evolving, ever devolving, never static and never finite.
All cities remain different, distinct, unique and universal. No two cities are similar. Each city has its own strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Accordingly, problem faced by any city cannot be viewed, dissected, analyzed and enumerated, while sitting within the four walls of the air-conditioned rooms and by the so called intellectual sitting in the so called offices determining the future of cities and towns. Neither the cities can be made more rational by limited knowledge agencies providing consultancy to cities , states and nations.
For realistically and rationally understanding, analyzing the cities and having simple, cost-effective and quality solutions to the problems and challenges faced , Cities have to be walked through and concerns of the various communities have to be properly understood and appreciated.
Prime reason for inability and lack of capacity on the part of majority of physical planners, engaged in the art and science of planning, designing and developing the cities, to address the issues and challenges faced by cities , realistically and rationally, has genesis in the lack of understanding of the origin, growth and development of cities.
Lack of capacity in majority of town planners, has roots in the quality of education imparted and seriousness and commitment on the part of both teachers and taught involved. As it stands today, majority of institutions involved in imparting education in planning are being run on an ad-hoc manner and by proxy. Only few institutions have regular teachers and regular students. Majority of planning institutions are being run on proxy with proxy students and proxy teachers. Education system including curricula used for teaching, needs, review, revision and redefinition to make it more relevant to rational for addressing the issues and challenges faced by the cities and towns.
Land as a Resource for urban finanace- 24-1-23.pptJIT KUMAR GUPTA
PPt tries to brief Land, as a gift of nature, is being grossly misused, abused , manipulated Land is globally used for providing platform for all human driven activities, based on living, working, culture of body/ mind and travel.
Limited availability, coupled with large number of human beings trying to source land, has invariably created large demand for land resource for human consumption. Land, in urban context, is required for meeting the specific needs of urban dwellers for residential, commercial, institutional, recreational, travel& traffic purposes besides providing space for infrastructures , amenities, services, trade and commerce etc. Land in urban context remains under large demand and command high price due to concentration of large population in small physical area, with stakeholders making competing claims.Rapid and uncontrolled growth in population experienced by urban areas has adversely impacted and generated considerable pressure on land resource in cities and towns , leading to large scale conversion, sub-division and illegal occupation of urban land. Unregulated and regulated pressure on land has largely been met by means of both formal/informal sub-division and development of land. Growth of the urban settlements and entire mechanism of urban planning and development remains land based/ land focused. In order to make optimum use of land resource on 24x7x365; making city planning, growth, development and management ,both rational. realistic, orderly and promoter of quality living, it will be critical and essential, that all ULBs are made to focus on eliminating culture and practices promoting un-authorized/ illegal sub-division of land for ushering an environment and era of planned urban development in the cities. Land needs to be effectively leveraged to generate resources for ULBs to make cities vibrant.
COST-EFFETIVE and Energy Efficient BUILDINGS ptxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Built environment is known for its capacity, capability, role, relevance and importance to change the quality of life of the occupants and communities. Presentation focuses on options which need to be leveraged to make buildings sustainable, cost-effective, energy efficient, resource efficient, qualitative over its entire life-cycle through designing, construction, operation. It calls for making buildings green and sustainable.
Making Buildings cost-effective , Energy Efficient ptxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation focuses on options which need to be leveraged to make buildings sustainable, cost-effective, energy efficient, resource efficient, qualitative over its entire life-cycle
Ppt briefs about role, relevance, importance of the rating systems applicable in India, criteria used in assessing
greeness, weightage allocated, , brief of how these rating systems are applied, parameters involved; weightage granted, levels of rating granted , incentives given by states for green rated buildings and brief of suggestions, how to make rating system more effective, efficient, objective and transparent.
The phenomenon of global warming remains more pronounced in the urban areas, for the reason cities house large concentration of people and activities in a small/compact urban space.Densely-built downtown areas tend to be warmer than suburban residential areas or rural areas.. UHI not only raises urban temperatures but also increases ozone concentrations because ozone is a greenhouse gas whose formation will accelerate with the temperature. Tokyo, an example of an urban heat island. Normal temperatures of Tokyo go up higher than those of the surrounding area. However, it needs to be understood and appreciated that climate change is not the cause of urban heat islands but it is causing more frequent and more intense heat waves which in turn amplify the urban heat island effect in cities. Major reasons for ever growing global warming and climate change can be attributed to the; Nature and natural; Human-Driven; population; Rapid Urbanisation; Irrational Urban planning; High Density; Inefficient Transportation ;Large generation/consumption of fossil fuel based Energy; Unsustainable Buildings; Polluting Industry & Manufacturing; Unsustainable Agriculture; Irrational Development; Large scale Deforestation; Lack of open spaces and individual life-choices;
Making and Unmaking of Chandigarh - A City of Two Plans2-4-24.pptJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation is a narrative of a
capital city- known for its innovative planning, designing, construction and management of a new capital . It briefs about the principles used in the planning and designing of city -by the first team of planners led by Albert Mayer and Mathew Nowicki-- followed by the second team led by Le- Corbusier, P Jenerette, Jane B Drew , Maxwell Fry. It also details about the various aspects of the city planning, planning of the sector as a neighbourhood, typologies of
various developmental controls used for regulating the construction of buildings. Innovations used for regulating the growth and development of periphery; redensification of city in case city exceeds its planned population of half a million, creating a narrative of city and periphery, innovative landscaping, defining an edict for the city to educate the future citizens of the capital city to safeguard the future growth and development besides lessons learnt from planning and designing the new cities.
Planning and Designing Green buildings-.issues, options and strategiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Affordability and sustainable development are considered anti-thesis across the world. Generally there exists conflict between the approach to sustainable built environment and affordable buildings. Sustainable development is considered more expensive. According to Middleton, ‘Sustainability and affordability aren’t mutually exclusive goals. It’s not about adding extra, but thinking more carefully about the design of buildings and incorporating technologies that can offset the rising costs of energy, water and other services. Affordability and sustainability are known to fit together perfectly’.
Through excellent design, buildings can be made more sustainable and affordable. Smaller the footprint of buildings, lower will be the upfront costs and embodied energy and lower shall be the running costs of buildings. Looking at the entire context of health, rising cost of amenities/services; Sustainable/Green designs are now being increasingly adopted, to make built environment more cost-effective and affordable. Considering the enormous amount of built environment to be created, India will have no option but to tread the path of sustainability and sustainable development in the built environment. Sustainable built environment would also help in and go a long way in achieving the majority of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals for the reason, built environment is known to be the largest consumer of energy, avoid wasteful use of resources and minimise generation of waste. Global sustainability will be largely contingent upon how effectively and efficiently we can make our buildings sustainable and qualitative through innovative/green design solutions based on local climate and culture, valuing site planning, embedding orientation, cross ventilation, using renewable/waste materials and involving state of the art building technologies.
_Neighborhood Planning in Capital City of Chandigarh- An Appraisal (2) - Copy...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Neighborhood as an idea, concept, option and strategy has been extensively used locally and globally by the Urban Planners to plan and decentralize cities, create cities within cities, promote self-contained communities and to make cities more humane, safe and socially vibrant. Neighborhood has also been used recently to define the city in terms of travel time - making 10/15 minutes city
Accordingly, large typologies of NH ,in terms of planning and designing , with varying shapes, sizes and contents have emerged in the urban context. Americans have used superblock and French using Sector for defining the neighborhood. Despite distinct advantages, holding high degree of relevance in urban and local area planning , NH planning has not been able to deliver the envisioned objectives of safety and social vibrancy. Cities in the process have been socially, economically and physically fragmented, leading to clear division of cities into different communities with little economical and social connectivity. Variance of planning and designing norms followed at NH and sub-neighborhood levels have promoted more dichotomy and contradictions with varying quality of life inducted at local level. Differential population and infrastructures have divided the city into the categories of high/low end NH units. Fabric and morphology of cities, in large cases, has been distorted with urban settlement emerging as a distinct social map of communities graded economically and socially,on the basis of area/location . In the process, the way NH planning concept has been used, neighborhood planning has emerged as an instrument of social and economic segregation/division. In fact in number of cases, concept has been used, misused, abused in intent and content to divide the cities into distinct social and economic layers. Instead of unifying , concept has led to division of cities.
Genesis of modern application of NH can be found in the planning and designing of Chandigarh where entire city fabric of capital city was woven around Sector as the basic unit of planning, concptulasied as self-contained and self-sustaining unit at the local level. However, the way sectors have been planned, it has led to dividing the cities into different and distinct communities. Individual status in Chandigarh can be judged from his/her residence. Concept of Sector has done more damage than good to the fabric of the city. Chandigarh is likely to face considerable problem in making city socially and economically cohesive/vibrant,. Sectors in Chandigarh remain anti-thesis to the basic concept of NH planning of safety, involving walkability, vehicular movement, putting commercial space in the centre. Considering role, relevance, importance and usability , NH needs to be planned, designed with care and caution, in order to make cities socially and economically vibrant, inclusive. NH planning deserves a new definition and approach to make it relevant and rational.
Reviewing, Revising and Redefining Master Plans and Development Plans to Ma...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Looking at its efficacy and efficiency, it can be seen and observed that Master Plans/ Development Plans have done more damage than good for the planned growth and development of the cities to which they have been made applicable. These plans have been violated with impunity both by the people, communities, cities and parastatal agencies; for the betterment/welfare of which these plans were prepared. These plans have been visualized as controller of development rather than promoters of development. Instead of planned development , these plans have been usherers of the unplanned development. These plans are known to be responsible for promoting large number of slums besides making quality of life poor for majority of the urban inhabitants. Cities under Master Plans are also known to promote exclusion rather than inclusion. Master Plans/Development Plans are known to promote prosperity for few and marginalize the large proportions of the local community by making them poor. Instead of catering to urban dynamism, Master Plans/Development Plans try to freeze the city, for next two decades, to which it is made to serve. Accordingly, these plans need to be reviewed , rationalised, revised and redefined to make them better Master Plans/Development Plans
Rationalizing the Planned Growth of Urban India- paper.docxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Rapid and uncontrolled growth in population experienced by urban areas has adversely impacted and generated considerable pressure on land resource in cities and towns , leading to large scale conversion, sub-division and illegal occupation of urban land. Unregulated and regulated pressure on land has largely been met by means of both formal/informal sub-division and development of land. Growth of the urban settlements and entire mechanism of urban planning and development remains land based/ land focused, based on a strategy of sub-division of the land, dictated by the economic forces prevailing in the market. Irrational and ineffective public policies of urban planning and land sub-division, devoid of prevailing ground realities, have turned out to be incompatible with the demands of urban expansion, leading to large scale un-authorized and illegal sub-division of land. In the process, valuable land resources, gift of nature, has been misused, abused and mutilated in this race of uncontrolled and irrational urbanisation. In order to make optimum use of land resource; making city planning, growth, development and management ,both rational. realistic, orderly and promoter of quality living, it will be critical and essential, that all urban centres are made to focus on eliminating the culture and practices promoting un-authorized/illegal sub-division of land for ushering an environment and era of planned urban development in the country.
Suggestion and Options for integrating villages. within the framework of the...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Preparing Master Plans/Development Plans for any urban settlements, basically and essentially, involves declaring a planning area for which the said long term plans are prepared. Planning area invariably includes and involves, number of rural settlements, which comprise of the planning area besides the urban settlement. It has been observed that in majority of cases, while detailed studies and analysis are carried out of the urban settlements but villages in the study and analysis remain marginalized, diluted and muted. Despite the fact, villages have critical role in the rational development of the urban settlement, but in preparing Master Plans their role and relevance is not made part of the said plan. Accordingly, this text tries to bring out the typologies of villages falling in the planning area and the suggested framework to develop these villages in making Master Plans, better Master Plan. In order to improve Master Plan qualitatively, quantitively, both in intent, contents and scope, It will be appropriate that all the villages falling in the planning area must be studied , analyzed and made integral part of the final outcome of the proposals of Master Plan. In-fact one Chapter must be exclusively dedicated to detail out the issues faced by the Villages and options which can be leveraged to promote the rational growth of villages ,as an integral part of the long term development of the urban settlement , for which the Master Plan is being prepared. This will help not only in integrating the urban- rural settlements falling in the planning area, but would also go a long way in promoting and ensuring rational growth and development of the urban settlement, for which the Master Plan is being prepared.
Making cities Climate Responsive and SustainableJIT KUMAR GUPTA
“Decarbonization” of cities ,as an issue ,as an option and as a strategy , has been gaining currency in the parlance of; making planet earth livable and sustainable. “Decarbonization has been globally valued for keeping the global temperature below 1.5C, and achieving the agenda and goals defined in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, defined by UN for achieving universal sustainability. Despite distinct role and relevance, criticality and importance of decarbonization of cities has neither been properly understood and appreciated nor made integral part of the architectural practice and art and science of designing and construction of buildings. Consuming one -third of global energy (33%) and generating 39% of greenhouse gas emissions buildings have been considered as the major player in the domain of climate change and global warming. Since Architects and Architecture are
actively involved in the making and unmaking of buildings, accordingly it becomes important that planners and architects must play a significant role in making
cities and buildings least consumers of energy and generators of the minimum greenhouse gas emissions. This objective can be achieved if decarbonizing cities/buildings is made a distinct reality . Issue of decarbonizing the cities/buildings assumes importance for the reason, that world’s building floorspace is likely to be become double by the year 2060, with the addition of large number of newcities/ buildings due to rapid urbanization, population growth and economic development ; required for catering to
to the needs of additional population opting for urban living.
Managing Planning and Development of Citie- 26-2-24.docxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Cities in India are known to be in perpetual crisis; facing numerous crises in terms of; crisis of rational growth, crisis of orderly and planned development; crisis of effective and efficient urban management; crisis of making provision of basic infrastructure and services; crisis of climate change; crisis of global warming; crisis of poverty, pollution and population and crisis of making human living and prevailing environment qualitative. These urban crises have genesis in the fact that cities in India, lack ownership, command, authority and lack of willingness to run and manage cities professionally and objectively. In majority of cases, cities in India are run by proxy. In terms of physical growth and development; large cities are marked by multiplicity of agencies claiming right/ownership of development over the urban areas, whereas smaller cities face absence of such ownership and are made to run, operate and function like orphans
Improving the viability of probiotics by encapsulation methods for developmen...Open Access Research Paper
The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, which is also known as t...vijaykumar292010
RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances, which is also known as the Directive 2002/95/EC. It includes the restrictions for the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. RoHS is a WEEE (Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment).
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...Joshua Orris
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
Kinetic studies on malachite green dye adsorption from aqueous solutions by A...Open Access Research Paper
Water polluted by dyestuffs compounds is a global threat to health and the environment; accordingly, we prepared a green novel sorbent chemical and Physical system from an algae, chitosan and chitosan nanoparticle and impregnated with algae with chitosan nanocomposite for the sorption of Malachite green dye from water. The algae with chitosan nanocomposite by a simple method and used as a recyclable and effective adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions. Algae, chitosan, chitosan nanoparticle and algae with chitosan nanocomposite were characterized using different physicochemical methods. The functional groups and chemical compounds found in algae, chitosan, chitosan algae, chitosan nanoparticle, and chitosan nanoparticle with algae were identified using FTIR, SEM, and TGADTA/DTG techniques. The optimal adsorption conditions, different dosages, pH and Temperature the amount of algae with chitosan nanocomposite were determined. At optimized conditions and the batch equilibrium studies more than 99% of the dye was removed. The adsorption process data matched well kinetics showed that the reaction order for dye varied with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order. Furthermore, the maximum adsorption capacity of the algae with chitosan nanocomposite toward malachite green dye reached as high as 15.5mg/g, respectively. Finally, multiple times reusing of algae with chitosan nanocomposite and removing dye from a real wastewater has made it a promising and attractive option for further practical applications.
Evolving Lifecycles with High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) and 3-D...Joshua Orris
The incorporation of a 3DCSM and completion of HRSC provided a tool for enhanced, data-driven, decisions to support a change in remediation closure strategies. Currently, an approved pilot study has been obtained to shut-down the remediation systems (ISCO, P&T) and conduct a hydraulic study under non-pumping conditions. A separate micro-biological bench scale treatability study was competed that yielded positive results for an emerging innovative technology. As a result, a field pilot study has commenced with results expected in nine-twelve months. With the results of the hydraulic study, field pilot studies and an updated risk assessment leading site monitoring optimization cost lifecycle savings upwards of $15MM towards an alternatively evolved best available technology remediation closure strategy.
1. Healing Cities-Leveraging Urban Planning
Jit Kumar Gupta*
jit.kumar1944@gmail**
Cities are being misused, abused, bruised, manipulated, mutilated under the adverse
impact of rapid, uncontrolled and unregulated growth of population, uncontrolled
expansion of physical space and massive rural-urban migration. Haphazard,
unplanned and sub-standard development are becoming pattern of urban growth.
Globally, cities are being treated as commodity being used , traded and speculated
for generating more money and large wealth for individuals, communities, states
and nations for making them rich and prosperous. Despite creating large space for
living, working, care of body& spirit, mobility and employment, cities are made to
reel under enormous stress of deficient infrastructure and services. Despite
consuming minimum land for housing large population in a limited area, cities are
being made places of high degree of land speculation. Despite having large
positivity, cities are being treated with impunity as a space full of evils. Future of
the planet earth will depend uponand shall be dictated by; how cities can be healed
and how existing negativities can be eliminated and cities can bemade them better
and healthy spaces to live and work.
Cities need to be treated differently with care and caution to make them spaces
for healing. Planners engaged in planning the urban settlements and professional
engaged in development and management need to look at cities and treat them
cautiously, differently and distinctly, to make them spaces imbued with health and
vitality, so that cities can emerge as healing spaces rather than areas full of
diseases/evils/negativity ;infested/impregnated with crime, poverty, pollution,
homelessness, slums, congestion, exclusion, diseases, manmade/natural disasters
etc.
Text below makes an attempt to define agenda to treat and heal cities through;
rationalizing planning; empowering cities; inventing new orders of cities; making
cities compact/spongy; rationalizing mobility; greening cities; building/creating
capacity; involving communities; preserving art and architecture; bringing nature
into cities; planning with nature using sun, space and greenery as the basic
essentials/elements of urban planning; ensuring good governance; leveraging
technologies etc. Looking at the enormous length, breadth, depth and reach of the
cities, number of alternate options can be invented/considered/used for healing the
cities to make them happy, healthy and great places on this earth to promote
livability, sustainability and achieving the agenda ordained in the Seventeen
2. Sustainable Development Goals defined by UNDP. Agenda can be enlarged/
rationalized/refined/redefined, by making additions and alterations, to make it more
specific, focused, effective, efficient and productive.
Rationalizing, Empowering, Capacity Building, Increasing operational
Efficiency of Cities through innovative planning options involving;
Looking urbanization beyond cities- Regional context
Looking cities in the physical, social, economic, environmental context
Preparing professionally Metropolitan Development Plans and District
Development Plans, involving physical planners for synergizing the rural-
urban development.
Redefining and rationalizing urban planning and development process by
making planning human and environmental centric
Making villages integral part of the urban planning, development and
management process.
Planning with nature and using natural elements of Panchbhutas - Prithvi,
Agni, Vayu, Jal, Akas and Sun, Space and Greenery
Weaving/integrating development with nature.
Focusing on protecting , preserving and promoting bio-diversity
Promoting and making value addition to the existing flora & fauna,
vegetation.
Identifying all existing/lost water sources, channels of water flow, water
bodies and making them integral part of urban development process.
Carrying a land suitability analysisbefore allocating uses and defining land
use options.
Synergizing and collaborating available resources of urban and rural
settlements
Decarbonizing cities , buildings and infrastructures- Making Cities/
buildings/transportation Zero Carbon
Promoting co-operative based city ownership- Creating ownership for city
Making cities more human- making them more compact
Leveraging technologies for redefining urbanization, urban planning,
development and management.
Making informalsector, women, children and physicallychallenged, integral
part of city economic, physical , social development agenda.
Empowering cities to be made self-contained, self-sufficient in day- to-
day/basic human needs.
3. Planning cities on well- defined quantifiable parameters and benchmarks-
services, amenities, water, open spaces etc. for evaluating performance of
cities.
Making urban planning based on Smart Visioning
Planning for People not vehicles
Promoting accessibility and not mobility
Planning walkable/cyclable cities.
Promoting State of art Planned Development
Making cities sustainable- focusing on consumption/production
Making cities Resilient- focusing on disaster mitigation, management
Making cities Inclusive- focusing on people - making cities people centric
Making cities Circular- focusing on use of materials- making cities
production/waste centric
Making Cities Healthy- Focusing on and making cities environment centric
Making Cities Safe- Focusing on preveting physical/social/economic crimes
and natural/ manmade disasters.
Making cities Green- Leveraging landscape-Creating QualityPublicSpaces
on prescribed norms and standards
Leveraging Culture, Heritage, Art / Architecture
Designing Low Energy Buildings- Focusing on built environment to make
them low energy
Making cities community/people centric
Inventing new order of planning- focusing on environment/
ecology/employment/quality of life- rather than merely land use planning
Reviewing, rationalizing and redefining planning tool- making them
relevant/effective/efficient
Making cities Energy efficient
Promoting Green Roofs / green walls- promoting green areas
Avoiding Urban Sprawl-- Stopping melting of cities
Minimizing heat island - Reducing carbon footprints- global warming
Making cities zero- carbon/zero-energy/ zero-waste/ zero-water cities
Make cities Compact by;
-Adopting principle of limited land, unlimited space
– Promoting High-density development
-- Adopting Transit- Oriented development
-- Raising Height of buildings
--Rationalizing land use pattern
-- Rationalizing planning norms and standards
4. - Promoting use of land 24x7x365.
-Promoting multiple use of land/ infrastructure- social/physical
--Redefining Building bye-laws
- Building inside not outside
-- Building vertical not horizontal
-- Building High not low
-- Building mix not pure
--Building dense not shallow
- Intensification of available land
- Densification of available land
-Promoting Green field development
- Changing typology of buildings- Adopting flatted development instead of
Plotted development
- Optimizing current infrastructure.
Making Cities Spongy by;
Planning extensive Green( Vegetation) and Blue (water) network in the city
Making cities Green- by bringing large area under green open spaces
Creating water bodies using low-lying areas
Introducing more pondsand lakes/ Creating land basins-to hold some of the
excess water .
Making provision of rooftop green spaces- for slowing the rain water flow
and absorb part of rain water- reduce urban flooding
Promoting Green walls- instead of brick/cement mortar walls in buildings
Increasing the area under absorbent land
Making all buildings/institutions zero-rainwater discharge- by mandating
large scale rain water harvesting/ ground water recharging.
Promoting storage and Rain water harvesting at local /community/city/peri-
urban areas.
Promoting Ground water recharging on large scale
Reviving/ Restoring all existing water channels
Minimising area under hard surfaces in the city
Making roads/parking porous- using porous materials/ concrete
Finding space for storage of rain water- below road crossing
Promoting urban landscaping / urban forestry on large scale.
Planting trees with large water absorbing capacity
Minimizing building envelops defined in the building zoning
5. Redefining building bye-laws to minimize ground coverage/increased depth
of setbacks and making mandatory to leave minimum 40% of land area as
porous.
Making all green spaces zero-water discharge-
Making all pavement porous for reducing rain water discharge
Incentivizing institutions/ buildings promoting zero-rainwater discharge
Levying charges for rain water discharge based on the area of the
plot/amount of rain water discharge.
Creating urban storm waterpark in the city for collecting, cleansing, storing
storm water and letting it infiltrate it into the aquifer. vegetation) and
blue (water) networks –
Planning Urban Mobility--Transportation
Making travel and traffic integral part of planning, development and
management process of the city and not making it an afterthought/left over.
Managing/minimizing travel demand and trip length
Minimizing intra-city travel
Separating inter/intra city traffic
Planning for people, not for vehicles
Promoting accessibility and not mobility
Making urban transportation people centric and not vehicle centric.
Promoting Green Transportation- Cycling and Walking
Planning dedicated quality transportation network for cycling/walking as
integral part of neighborhood planning.
Integrating and bringing various modes of travel on same
Platform.
Promoting mixed land use and avoiding pure land use planning.
Making cities compact to promote walkability/cycling
Promoting transit oriented development
Leveraging technology on large scale to rationalize traffic
Creating dedicated app for traffic management
Creating a unified traffic regulatory authority at local/regional level.
Creating a unified command centre for monitoring and managing traffic
Promoting bus based mass rapid transport – rationalizing routes,
rationalizing fair, making buses comfortable, minimizing changes, making
fare affordable.
Creating awareness- educating/ involving communities
Making core areas walkable by eliminating vehicles
6. Discouraging widening of roads in core areas/walled cities
Shifting bulk-materialmarkets/activities attracting largevolume of vehicular
traffic- outside the congested areas- to areas designated in the master plans
Creating pedestrian/cyclists’ friendly spaces at the neighborhood/city areas
Promoting decentralization of activities- creating self-contained
neighborhoods
Creating net-work based work spaces at the local level/neighborhood level
Asking institutions/industries employing large manpower/ users to run
dedicated buses/travel options to minimize travel by personal vehicles.
Pricing of roads used for discouraging use of private vehicles
Using the mechanism of equitableallocation of space in roads carrying large
number of vehicles ,based on the proportion of passengers transported.
Making optimum use of available traffic and transportation network
Using mechanism of staggering of timing of operation of offices/ schools etc.
Avoiding pure-land use planning and promoting mixed land use strategy.
Avoiding use of grid-iron road pattern-- where adopted to be superimposed
by diagonal network to reduce distances.
Using city shapes and pattern of streets which minimize the travel/traffic
Putting in place a well-defined hierarchy of road pattern.
Promoting pedestrianization/cycling for travel within the large institutions/
campus
Creating network for bi-cycle sharing in the city.
Deploying professionally trained/educated transportation related manpower
at city level
Creating adequatetransportation related manpowerby starting specialized
courses in traffic and transportation courses in all planning institutions/
institutions of higher engineering learning.
Running special campaigns for educating road users in general and
pedestrians /cyclists/children/senior citizens/physically challenged persons
Minimizing traffic accidents
Promoting R&D in the area of urban transportation
Marking dedicated fundsforrationalizing/creating traffic and transportation
infrastructure.
Dedicating defined periods in the year for holding roadshows and educating
the road users.
Restricting/rationalizing the vehicle ownership in the cities.
Rationalizing the charges for parking based on- intensity of vehicle
population, availabilityofroad space, duration ofparking, typologyofvehicle
7. parked etc.- parking area in large demand need to have higher parking
charges and parking areasless in demand could offer lower parking charges
for better utilization.
Clearly defining and appropriately managing long term/short term parking
needs
Mandating provision of adequate space for parking of vehicles within the
house in the building bye-laws .Depth of Front setbacks need to be
rationalized and construction of boundary walls to be dispensed with for
creating adequate space for parking within the plot area.
Plinth levels /road berms need rationalization for easy parking of vehicles.
Road cross-sections need careful study for defining metaled portions and
width of the kerbs to beprovided on each side. Centralposition of the metaled
portion with adequate/equal width of berms on both sides to be preferred.
Road widths needs detailed study when planning of houses on one side/both
sides to rationalize mobility/ traffic/parking
Conserving Heritage;
Making Heritage integral part of the local level plans/ Master plans/
Development plans for integrating heritage with the planning process by
including a dedicated chapter on the local heritage- identification,
development and management.
Clearly/precisely defining Heritage through an effective/efficient legal
framework.
Creating/improving capacity/framework at local level to
identify/demarcate/notify/ plan /develop/managethe heritagein a time-bound
manner .
Widening scape of Heritage not only to natural/manmade environment but
also to includeall tangible/intangibleassets valued by the local communities
Promoting awareness/ understandingof the context and empowering people
and communities to conserve local heritage.
Making heritage identification, preservation, conservation, value addition
and management- a people centric/ community led mission and not
government led program.
Creating adequate manpower for identification/planning /development/
management of identified heritage by running specialized courses in
institutions of higher learning in architecture/planning/ engineering/
management.
Earmarking dedicated funds for development /management of identified
heritage.
8. Involving corporate/private sector in heritage identification/ development/
management. Makingheritageconservation partofCSR activities to generate
assured financial resources.
Creating dedicated/specialized legal framework for preserving identifying
heritage through heritage conservation regulations.
Including Heritage in the school level study curricula for making students
aware about the role and importance of heritage and its conservation.
Involving local institutions in heritage conservation/preservation/
management by involving local youth by training them as tourist guides.
Creating local ownerships of heritage for safeguarding and promoting
heritage at local level.
Effectively and efficiently integrating Heritage and Tourism to promote
employment, eliminate poverty and promote local economy.
Identification/promotion local artand craft for promoting local economy and
employment.
Bringing dedicated, quality and well-illustrated literature/films for
promoting/wide dissemination of the local heritage.
Holding dedicated festivals to celebrate and commemorate the local heritage
for rational growth and development of the heritage areas.
Rationalizing development in and around heritage areas by eliminating
haphazard/unplanned/sub-standard development for safeguarding the
heritage assets.
Supplementing and complementing the heritage areas with appropriate/
supportive infrastructures/amenities, without adversely impacting the
ambience and glory of the heritage
Evolving Comprehensive Conservation Heritage Strategy based on four
distinct pillars of-- promoting Understanding -- Ensuring Positive Action--
Developing Partnerships -- Promoting Best Practice.
Conservation / Heritage Strategy must revolve around;-
• Promoting partnerships between different stakeholders
• Creating awareness / appreciation of value of heritage assets
• Incentivizing conservation /promoting / monitoring/reviewing
heritage sites on regular basis.
• Organizing exhibitions/conferences /workshops at Heritage sites
• Synthesizing historic resources with economic development strategies.
• Avoiding commercialization of heritage over conservation values.
• Promoting active re-use of heritagebuildings-Palaces/hotels/ museums
--for larger public use / making value addition to heritage
• generating resources for maintenance & upkeep of heritage assets.
9. • Promoting best practice for- preservation , conservation and
management of heritage sites
• Promoting partnership -- between public, private and voluntary sectors
• Fostering continued use/ enjoyment /access to diverse historic assets
• ensuring contribution to quality of life present / future generations.
• Developing short, medium / long term targets-- within available
resources
• Creating reservoir/pool of skilled/trained manpower for heritage
conservation.
• Improving communication
• Making peoplebelieve that developmentand heritage arepositively co-
related -- for promoting economy/ quality of life/ removing poverty
• Promoting participative governance -- by empowering local
communities in the planning / implementation /promoting vigilance of
the heritage sites
• Making rational choices of combining-- restoration, rehabilitation/
preservation for promoting valuable heritage.
• Creating an efficiently operated platform for administration,
interaction, collaboration and co-operation between the key partners .
Caring for Communities
Making planning people centric based on their vision and aspirations.
Making citizens integral part of city planning, development and governance
process.
Ensuring basicamenities of food, shelter , clothing, eduction and healthcare,
on prescribed norms, for all the residents as a matter of basic human right.
Focusing on quality of life, equality and equity- based opportunities for all.
Reordering priorities to generate gainful employment for all.
Empowering people and communities to promote planned and orderly
development
Creating an effective and efficient mechanism of involving communities in
urban spaces
Creating an effective, efficient and responsivemechanism ofredressing public
grievances.
Leveraging technology for involving communities by creating community
planning websites; holding public meetings; carrying out public surveys;
creating interactive platform ;placing suggestion boxes; holding
competitions; displaying models
10. Incentivizing communities for adopting/promoting good practices in
conserving resources, promoting solid waste management, energy/water
conservation, reporting leakage/waster of services, maintenance and
promoting green/open spaces.
Incentivizing communities in celebrating and values cities and its heritage.
Creating appropriateplatform for communityparticipation and involvement
in planning, decision making etc. on continued basis.
Creating and empowering pressure groups for safeguarding the
environmental, bio-diversity, ecological aspects of urban living
Involving communities by creating local ownership of urban places/spaces.
Creating opportunitiesfor communities to interact with experts for local area
planning, improvement; development and management.
Creating a Think-Tank involving local talent and expertise availablewith
the communities for planning,developmentandmanagementofpublicassets.
Effective involvement of communities to revolve around Identifying,
appreciating and buildingon the neighborhood’s existing demographicand
cultural influences.
Creating appropriate level of trust between citizens and local leadership for
conveying the message that local communities and their views, ideas,
aspiration and needs are valued and built in the projects/programs.
Empowering Local Governance
Avoiding multiplicity of agencies involved in local level planning,
development and management .
Designating Urban local bodies operating at local level as the
planning/development authorities.
Empowering local authorities with adequate resources( manpower &
financial), power, authority, responsibility for rational urban management.
Empowering local leadership for Good governance ; promoting planned
development /state of art development/ bringing innovations in urban
planning/empowering cities/making cities sustainable.
Dedication , knowledge, understanding, commitment and sincerity essential
for good leadership for leading by examples.
Making Good governance revolve around; making value based choices in
planning, development and governance.
Creating well-defined ownership for cities among people/communities
Building on a high performance team of officials having knowledge,
understanding, expertise and commitment.
11. Making accountability integral part of the governance process- Creating
Culture of Accountability
Creating well- defined city Leadership- Mayor
Adopting professional / Management Approach
Promoting Training and Development
Investing in Learning
Securing Stakeholders Consensus
Launching Pilot Programs of development in cities
Prioritizing/defining Agenda for City Growth
Holding direct elections to the posts of Mayor/President/ other office bearers,
making accountability as part of the urban governance.
Defining qualifications/experience for local leadership for ensuring
competent local leadership
Creating postsof ChiefExecutive officer in theurban local bodies for effective
monitoring/implementation of the development agenda.
Mayors of Curitiba, New York, Washington, Rio-deJaneiro, Bogota, Toledo,
London, created highest degree of urban Leadership/Governance to make
cities Smart/Sustainable/Futuristics
Empowering Cities
Empowering cities to be self-sustaining and self-sufficient in matters of
related to raising/spending resources; promoting good governance;
undertaking long/short term planning & development; making provision of
services etc.
Implementing 73/74th Constitutional Amendments in letter and spirits.
Creating a dedicated list of municipal sources of revenue on the pattern
defined for the centre /states in the constitution.
Making optimum useof available resources for the overall developmentof the
settlement.
Positioning a dedicated agency at the city level, uly supported by requisite
power, authority, responsibility and resources, both manpower, financialand
technical.
Adopting best global practices appropriate to the existing/prevailing
environment, culture, socio- economic values and available resources.
Promoting a culture of security, safety and mutual co-operation among
residents
Creating largenumberof publicspacesat the local, sub-local, zonal, sub-city
and city-level.
12. Making cities futuristic by innovations/ creating out of box ideas/leveraging
technology, to achieve higher quality living and achieving operational
efficiency.
Greening Cities
Providing well-defined-and- qualitative open spaces, on the prescribed
norms and standards, covering entire length/breadth of the city/pan-city--
should be made integral part of urban planning process.
Making cities Green and blue by creating large open spaces and number of
water bodies.
Making available green spaces @ 9 sqm per resident
Involving communities/Corporate sectors, in creating, planning, designing
and maintaining the open spaces.
Making availableopen spacestoall residents/communities in thecities based
on equity and equality.
Using all low- lying areas for greening and creating water bodies
Creating large wealth of trees/capita in the city- involving creation of urban
forests.
Protecting/ preserving/declaring all existing flora and fauna to be protected
Celebrating flora/fauna byholding dedicated festivalon thepattern of Rose
festival, Chandigarh
Incentivizing the use of land available with institutions for landscapingand
tree plantation
Using land available with parastatal agencies for planting trees and
promoting greenery in cities
Mandating all stretches of land falling under HT Electrical lines to create
green/landscaped corridors in the city.
Mandating use of land legally prohibited for urbanization,-- to be used for
greening cities.
Using all vacant urban land available with parastatal agencies ,marked for
future developed, for plantation of trees.
Mandating all industrial units/ institutions planting trees based on specified
area norms
Recognizing individuals/communities/RWA/instructions for good work done
in promoting greenness in cities.
Making operational a well-defined policy for greening the available public
areas.
Involving communities in planning designing and maintaining the available
green areas in the city.
13. Involving corporate sector/institutions in promoting green cover and
increasing the number of trees by giving advertisement rights.
Permitting planning, designing,developing and maintenanceof landscaping
of the area under roundabouts/traffic rotaries
Earmarking dedicated spaces in the city for communities to promote
plantation of trees in memory of their dear/near ones by paying charges for
plantation and maintenance- Smriti Van
Creating a well-defined policy of greening roof areas/walls to promote green
cover in the city/core areas of the city.
Redefining the building regulationsto minimize area underbuilding envelop/
ground coverageand increasing porousareaswithin theplotted development.
Defining/Using areas along equivalent green area in the building itself.
Promoting green buildings for creating large green spaces
Adopting the concept of buildingswithin gardensrather than gardens within
buildings
Bringing landscaping and greenery from outside to inside buildings
Focusing on promoting green areas while planning/designing buildings
Incentivizing the use of all available vacant/unused areas for creating green
cover- underground parking/under-ground water works etc.
Using super- trees concept adopted in Singapore for creating large number
of trees and green cover.
Using areas over public/personal corridors for landscaping
Promoting green culture in planning and designing of institutional areas.
Leveraging Technology;
Technology to hold the key to planning , designing , managing, empowering
and making cities sustainable.
Using technology for sourcing data related to operation of cities and using
for rational decision making/bringing all line departments on same
platform/promoting co-ordination/avoiding duplication and overlapping/
avoiding wastage of resources/filling existing gaps in service delivery
Technology can be leveraged for;
-Rational Planning and designing
-Preparing /Amending Master Plans/ Development Plans
-Implementing Master /Development Plans
- Monitoring Delivery of services- water supply, sanitation, electricity, roads
--Tackling air pollution
--creating platform for efficiency
--breaking silos
-- lodging complaints/making suggestions for improved services
14. --making payments on line
--rendering services on line
-Managing travel/traffic/parking
- Digitizing bus stops- bus schedule,
-Managing solid waste- using sensor based garbage bins
- Promoting accessibility
– Managing services
--Minimizing travel
--Tackling noise
- Monitoring Pollution
-Interacting/comnnecting with community
-Raising/collecting resources
-Promoting efficiency in levying/ defining municipal taxes/fees/charges
-Carrying out surveys
-Monitoring effectively the quality of development on ground
- Minimizing the requirement of manpower-making operation cost-effective
- Minimizing malpractices/corruption
- Promoting transparency in decision making
- Promoting Good /effective/ efficient governance.
-Rationalizing Selection of sites for the projects
-Promoting urban mapping
- Checking unauthorized/uncontrolled/haphazard development/construction
- Effective monitoring of growth of slums
Monitoring government assets/ checking encroachments on public property
Three Mantra for Healing Cities
1. Achieve smart growth
-- finding best options to do things sustainably
-- promote economic growth for people –
-- making people earn good livelihood
-- make them enjoy a good quality of life.
2. Do more with less–
-- cities need money to accomplish all wants .
Collecting, managing/spending resources economically, effectively/
efficiently
3. Win support for change-
- Leaders need to;
-- deliver fast, positive, /visible results,
- build support for changes.
--- Based on high-performing civil services.