Ppt looks at the context if cities, problems faced/created by cities and options to make cities more sustainable- using mechanism of planned development, compact city,Regional Planning, green mobility, greening cities, technologies, leadership and creating accountability with responsibility
Presentation looks at the role, relevance and importance of the cities in polluting environment, generating waste, consuming energy, creating large footprints of buildings and making cities unsustainable. Presentation looks at the issues, genesis of problems of sustainability and suggest options to make them environment friendly, energy/resource efficient, making value addition to environment and ecology and to become a serious partner in making planet earth more liveable and sustainable.
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.
Building Carbon neutral Cities Through Green RoofJIT KUMAR GUPTA
building are known to be largest consumers of enrgy, resources, water and generators of waste. They consume largest energy and responsible for climate change and global warming. Within buildings roof area remains the arae which is most unused, abused and misused space, which can be effectively leveraged to minimise the adverse impact of buildings on resources, energy, climate change etc. It can cool the buildings, bring down the energy use, make cities free from disasters and do large number of positivity to buildinga, climate, environment . Green roofs remains an area, potential of which remains largely unexplored. It needs to studied, analysed with policy options evolved to make it a distict reality in the buildings
Redefining and Rationalising Development Controls -Issues and OptionsJIT KUMAR GUPTA
ppt defines, details role, relevance, criticality, importance of Development Controls in the parlance of urban planning, development, governance, management. Text defines the typologies of development controls made applicable in urban context, their role and impact on cities and built environment. As definer of the personality of the city and considering their physical, social, economic and environmental implications on urban development and quality of built environment; development controls need to be defined with care and caution. They should be seen and framed as promoters of development rather than controllers of urban development. They should be framed with the goal of ushering an era of sustainability, livability, land conservation, resource conservation and making planet earth more livable and qualitative. development controls should remain resource led; sustainable led and led by optimisation of available resources for achieving the agenda defined in SDGs
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 and civilizations remain
synonymous. Cities remain unique, different and distinct. Cities existed in the past, they exist now and they shall continue to dominate the future of human journey on this planet earth. No two cities are same. Each city has its paces of strength and weaknesses. Making any city great, ,has genesis in understanding its uniqueness and making optimum use and build on its strength; overcoming the existing weaknesses; creating opportunities for its orderly growth and overcome possible challenges which may emerge in its march to become great. Cities must be owned by people and city must own its people. we need co-operative cities and not smart and sky scrapper cities. People would need cities which provides them safety and basic amenities of life, make them happy and healthy. City must create options for providing best possible living to its people; create options for appropriate working; make people happy and healthy; both physically and mentally and make them travel only when needed and that too on a limited scale. Following this order of planning can surely enhance the credibility and operational efficiency of the cities. Planning cities, using nature and natural elements of Sun, Space and Greenery can help in making cities wonderful and healthy places to live and work. Cities must identify, preserve, manage, protect and manage its Heritage, as integral part of its growth and development to make it connect with past glory. Agra needs to be made, promoted and declared as a heritage city to showcase its past glory and make it integral part of future growth and development. Ignoring and damaging its heritage, which lead to chaos and anarchy. Agra must come out with its own charter of growth and development to retain
not only its past glory but also charter an agenda of its glorious future growth.
Presentation focuses on defining the context of sustainable development, urbanisation in the Global and Indian context, positivities and negativities of urbanisation and the crisis created by urbanisation
Sustainable Urban Planning-Issues and Options JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Urban India remains in crisis- crisis of population; crisis of poverty; crisis of pollution; crisis of unplanned development; crisis of infrastructures; crisis of services; crisis of affordable living. Genesis of all these crisis has roots in approach and options used for development of urban and rural settlements, which is done on different footing with priority going for urban areas .Despite getting major attention, resources, manpower, technology, cities remain in crisis for the reason majority of urban ills have their origin in the neglect of the rural India. If India, as a nation has to move forward, then its emancipation falls within the domain of Rural India, which needs to be made more productive, livable and qualitative duly supported by technology and state of art infrastructures besides making urban and rural India equal partners in all policy planning and programs for development. Regional Planning offers the best option to achieve the objective.
Presentation looks at the role, relevance and importance of the cities in polluting environment, generating waste, consuming energy, creating large footprints of buildings and making cities unsustainable. Presentation looks at the issues, genesis of problems of sustainability and suggest options to make them environment friendly, energy/resource efficient, making value addition to environment and ecology and to become a serious partner in making planet earth more liveable and sustainable.
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.
Building Carbon neutral Cities Through Green RoofJIT KUMAR GUPTA
building are known to be largest consumers of enrgy, resources, water and generators of waste. They consume largest energy and responsible for climate change and global warming. Within buildings roof area remains the arae which is most unused, abused and misused space, which can be effectively leveraged to minimise the adverse impact of buildings on resources, energy, climate change etc. It can cool the buildings, bring down the energy use, make cities free from disasters and do large number of positivity to buildinga, climate, environment . Green roofs remains an area, potential of which remains largely unexplored. It needs to studied, analysed with policy options evolved to make it a distict reality in the buildings
Redefining and Rationalising Development Controls -Issues and OptionsJIT KUMAR GUPTA
ppt defines, details role, relevance, criticality, importance of Development Controls in the parlance of urban planning, development, governance, management. Text defines the typologies of development controls made applicable in urban context, their role and impact on cities and built environment. As definer of the personality of the city and considering their physical, social, economic and environmental implications on urban development and quality of built environment; development controls need to be defined with care and caution. They should be seen and framed as promoters of development rather than controllers of urban development. They should be framed with the goal of ushering an era of sustainability, livability, land conservation, resource conservation and making planet earth more livable and qualitative. development controls should remain resource led; sustainable led and led by optimisation of available resources for achieving the agenda defined in SDGs
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 and civilizations remain
synonymous. Cities remain unique, different and distinct. Cities existed in the past, they exist now and they shall continue to dominate the future of human journey on this planet earth. No two cities are same. Each city has its paces of strength and weaknesses. Making any city great, ,has genesis in understanding its uniqueness and making optimum use and build on its strength; overcoming the existing weaknesses; creating opportunities for its orderly growth and overcome possible challenges which may emerge in its march to become great. Cities must be owned by people and city must own its people. we need co-operative cities and not smart and sky scrapper cities. People would need cities which provides them safety and basic amenities of life, make them happy and healthy. City must create options for providing best possible living to its people; create options for appropriate working; make people happy and healthy; both physically and mentally and make them travel only when needed and that too on a limited scale. Following this order of planning can surely enhance the credibility and operational efficiency of the cities. Planning cities, using nature and natural elements of Sun, Space and Greenery can help in making cities wonderful and healthy places to live and work. Cities must identify, preserve, manage, protect and manage its Heritage, as integral part of its growth and development to make it connect with past glory. Agra needs to be made, promoted and declared as a heritage city to showcase its past glory and make it integral part of future growth and development. Ignoring and damaging its heritage, which lead to chaos and anarchy. Agra must come out with its own charter of growth and development to retain
not only its past glory but also charter an agenda of its glorious future growth.
Presentation focuses on defining the context of sustainable development, urbanisation in the Global and Indian context, positivities and negativities of urbanisation and the crisis created by urbanisation
Sustainable Urban Planning-Issues and Options JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Urban India remains in crisis- crisis of population; crisis of poverty; crisis of pollution; crisis of unplanned development; crisis of infrastructures; crisis of services; crisis of affordable living. Genesis of all these crisis has roots in approach and options used for development of urban and rural settlements, which is done on different footing with priority going for urban areas .Despite getting major attention, resources, manpower, technology, cities remain in crisis for the reason majority of urban ills have their origin in the neglect of the rural India. If India, as a nation has to move forward, then its emancipation falls within the domain of Rural India, which needs to be made more productive, livable and qualitative duly supported by technology and state of art infrastructures besides making urban and rural India equal partners in all policy planning and programs for development. Regional Planning offers the best option to achieve the objective.
Poverty remans the greatest curse on humanity . Getting out of poverty would require empowering human beings through skilling and education, providing opportunities to explore options for employment, making available resources and holding hand for alleviating poverty. Presentation focus on how to leverage urban planning in empowering urbanites to overcome poverty.
Presentatio tries to bring out context of the cities in the overall development of communities and nations, and the manner cities are being subjected to devlopmental and population pressure. As engines of economic growth cities are known to have environmental, ecological and infrastructure implications besides becoming the major propeller of global warming and climate change. Looking at the role and importance of cities in alleviating poverty, pollution and numerous other growing dualitues and contradictions, presentation focusses on how to make growth and development of cities more rational, sustaianble, inclusive, safe abd resilient.
This document discusses making cities more "spongy" to better manage stormwater and flooding. It defines a spongy city as one planned and designed to retain, clean, and reuse stormwater using various techniques. The principles of spongy cities are to retain rather than drain rainwater and focus on effective water management by absorbing water during plenty and supplying it during deficits. Essentials for spongy cities include creating open green spaces, promoting green roofs/walls, adopting porous designs, and using nature-based solutions. Challenges include high land costs, restrictive development norms, and lack of awareness; smart technologies can help address some challenges by identifying flood-prone areas and mapping water systems.
The document discusses concepts and approaches for smart and sustainable cities. It provides context on global population growth and urbanization. Key points made include that cities are major economic drivers but also face issues like pollution, poverty and unsustainable resource use. The smart city mission in India aims to address these challenges by developing smart infrastructure and services in 100 selected cities. This will help optimize resource use, improve quality of life and make cities more sustainable and inclusive.
Jammu- IIA-Smart Cities -CONCEPTS AND APPAROACHES- 5-6-22.pptJIT KUMAR GUPTA
World is celebrating golden jubilee of the launching of World Environment Day. Making cities sustainable assumes importance on this day, which is dedicated to promote the wellbeing of the humanity, because cities are known to be major consumers of energy, resources and generators of waste. Cities have been relevant in the past and shall continue to drive nations in promoting economy, employment, services and amenities. However, development and environment remain anti-thesis. It will remain important how professionals work, operate and evolve and devolve their skills for minimizing the conflict and contradictions between the two to make human habitat more sustainable.
Infrastructures and services are known to be the backbone of any human settlement . They are known to be determinant of the quality of life and operational efficiency of any city. They are also the one regulating the productivity of the city. Infra remain vital for all the urban residents , communities, city and the state. Accordingly, it becomes important that infrastructures on prescribed norms and standards are made available in both quantity and quality in the human habitation. Providing Infra requires lot of resources and technology know how. Accordingly adequate provision in the budget of urban local bodies need to be provided. in addition to providing infra and services, it is critical that they are also maintained properly. Key issues in the infra is the delivery of services. Government must involve private sector in providing services. Services charges also have to be rational to make them affordable. Providing services and infra remains a difficult and innovative option. It offers both a challenge and an opportunity. All ULBs must ensure adequate services of appropriate quality to all its citizens , even poorest of poor, to lead a dignified living.
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 .
Cities remains unique, universal and complex , invariably evolving, devolving, never finite and never defined. Cities create prosperity, poverty, employment, dichotomy and contradictions. Cities are said to be the future of humanity, but cities are also the reason for climate change, global warming , larger carbon footprints and rising temperature - making cities unsafe- both to the natural and manmade disasters. Making cities sustainable remains a challenge, opportunity, mirage and dream. Heading towards uncontrolled urbanisation, cities are pushing humanity into crisis- crisis of population, crisis of poverty and crisis of pollution. Cities remain anti-thesis to sustainability. Cities don't believe in inclusion and cities dies not treat majority of its inhabitants with respect and dignity -providing basic amenities of life to lead a dignified life. Making cities rational, humane, safe , inclusive, livable and sustainable will remain the greatest challenge on the planet earth.
Strategy and Options for Preserving Indian HeritageJIT KUMAR GUPTA
presentation tries to define agenda for identification, preservation, conservation and making value addition to the valuable manmade heritage in the Indian context, looking at various facets of heritage including their context in the human settlements, their planning, development and management, making it community centric , sourcing funds and making it integral part of urban planning and development process. Heritage needs to be respected, preserved and promoted by making value addition.
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.
Making Ludhiana Smart- Concepts, Issues and Options JIT KUMAR GUPTA
This document discusses plans to make Ludhiana, India a smart city by addressing several issues and providing solutions. Key points include:
- Ludhiana faces issues like unplanned development, pollution, lack of infrastructure and open spaces
- The vision is to make Ludhiana a zero-waste, green, and slum-free city that is a model for urban governance and development
- Solutions proposed include replanning the city on a regional scale, improving governance through a single planning authority, boosting finances, and prioritizing public transport and pedestrian access over personal vehicles.
The document summarizes the concepts and approaches of urban planning in Curitiba, Brazil. It describes how Curitiba prioritized people-focused design and public transportation over automobile-centric planning. The mayor redesigned the city to be more pedestrian-friendly and implemented an innovative bus rapid transit system. It also discusses Curitiba's social programs helping street children and implementing an innovative garbage collection-for-food program with local farmers. The document argues Curitiba provides an example of more sustainable and equitable urban planning compared to typical automobile-focused redevelopment in many cities.
This document discusses global and Indian population trends, urbanization rates, and issues related to urban infrastructure development. Some key points:
- World population has grown rapidly from 1 billion in 1804 to over 7 billion currently, and is projected to reach 8-11 billion by 2050. India surpassed China as the world's most populous country in 2023.
- India's population grew from 250 million in 1919 to over 1.2 billion in 2011. By 2050, 50% of India's population is projected to live in urban areas. Many cities are growing rapidly but face infrastructure challenges.
- Urban areas will be critical for India's economic growth but most cities face issues like lack of adequate housing
The document discusses strategies for preventing melting cities in India. It covers several topics:
- The UN definition of cities and their dual nature of bringing out the best and worst in humanity.
- India's rapid population growth and urbanization, with over 50% expected to live in urban areas by 2050.
- Issues with urbanization like unplanned development, slums, and poor quality of life.
- The need for smart, compact cities with rational planning, public transportation, technologies, and strong leadership.
This document discusses settlements in geography. It defines a settlement as a place where people live and interact through activities like agriculture, trading, and entertainment. Settlements help understand the relationship between humans and their environment. Factors that influence settlement locations include resources, soils, shelter from the elements, and defense from enemies. The document then discusses different types of settlement patterns like nucleated, dispersed, and linear, as well as hierarchies of urban settlements from world metropolises to smaller cities. It also discusses problems associated with rapid urbanization in developing countries.
Strategy and Options for Planning Inclusive CitiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation looks at the context of inclusive cities, its relevance in the Indian context, problems faced by Indian cities and what are the options to make cities inclusive, and sustainable
African City Planner: Urbanization 2nd classConstant Cap
This document discusses the challenges of urbanization in Africa and how cities can develop sustainably. It notes that while urbanization can boost economic growth, cities also concentrate poverty. The three pillars of sustainable development - economic, social, and environmental - are connected to urbanization. Major challenges cities face regarding these pillars include slowed economic growth, unemployment, and increased poverty. The document also provides case studies on topics like slum regeneration, urban mobility systems, and redevelopment projects. It emphasizes that good urbanism should be collaborative and complementary to existing communities. Issues specific to Nairobi like traffic, informal settlements, and waste management are also addressed.
The document discusses challenges facing cities and proposals to address them, including:
1) Majority of world's population now lives in cities, placing strain on infrastructure and environment. Cities account for most greenhouse gas emissions.
2) Cities need over $70 trillion by 2030 to improve basic infrastructure like roads, rail, utilities.
3) To save cities, the document proposes focusing on sustainability through green infrastructure, transportation, and balancing human/nature needs. Emphasizing culture and unique identity is also key to cities competing globally.
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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Poverty remans the greatest curse on humanity . Getting out of poverty would require empowering human beings through skilling and education, providing opportunities to explore options for employment, making available resources and holding hand for alleviating poverty. Presentation focus on how to leverage urban planning in empowering urbanites to overcome poverty.
Presentatio tries to bring out context of the cities in the overall development of communities and nations, and the manner cities are being subjected to devlopmental and population pressure. As engines of economic growth cities are known to have environmental, ecological and infrastructure implications besides becoming the major propeller of global warming and climate change. Looking at the role and importance of cities in alleviating poverty, pollution and numerous other growing dualitues and contradictions, presentation focusses on how to make growth and development of cities more rational, sustaianble, inclusive, safe abd resilient.
This document discusses making cities more "spongy" to better manage stormwater and flooding. It defines a spongy city as one planned and designed to retain, clean, and reuse stormwater using various techniques. The principles of spongy cities are to retain rather than drain rainwater and focus on effective water management by absorbing water during plenty and supplying it during deficits. Essentials for spongy cities include creating open green spaces, promoting green roofs/walls, adopting porous designs, and using nature-based solutions. Challenges include high land costs, restrictive development norms, and lack of awareness; smart technologies can help address some challenges by identifying flood-prone areas and mapping water systems.
The document discusses concepts and approaches for smart and sustainable cities. It provides context on global population growth and urbanization. Key points made include that cities are major economic drivers but also face issues like pollution, poverty and unsustainable resource use. The smart city mission in India aims to address these challenges by developing smart infrastructure and services in 100 selected cities. This will help optimize resource use, improve quality of life and make cities more sustainable and inclusive.
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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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- The vision is to make Ludhiana a zero-waste, green, and slum-free city that is a model for urban governance and development
- Solutions proposed include replanning the city on a regional scale, improving governance through a single planning authority, boosting finances, and prioritizing public transport and pedestrian access over personal vehicles.
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- Issues with urbanization like unplanned development, slums, and poor quality of life.
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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
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ARENA - Young adults in the workplace (Knight Moves).pdfKnight Moves
Presentations of Bavo Raeymaekers (Project lead youth unemployment at the City of Antwerp), Suzan Martens (Service designer at Knight Moves) and Adriaan De Keersmaeker (Community manager at Talk to C)
during the 'Arena • Young adults in the workplace' conference hosted by Knight Moves.
Discovering the Best Indian Architects A Spotlight on Design Forum Internatio...Designforuminternational
India’s architectural landscape is a vibrant tapestry that weaves together the country's rich cultural heritage and its modern aspirations. From majestic historical structures to cutting-edge contemporary designs, the work of Indian architects is celebrated worldwide. Among the many firms shaping this dynamic field, Design Forum International stands out as a leader in innovative and sustainable architecture. This blog explores some of the best Indian architects, highlighting their contributions and showcasing the most famous architects in India.
Practical eLearning Makeovers for EveryoneBianca Woods
Welcome to Practical eLearning Makeovers for Everyone. In this presentation, we’ll take a look at a bunch of easy-to-use visual design tips and tricks. And we’ll do this by using them to spruce up some eLearning screens that are in dire need of a new look.
3. State of World’s Cities
• UN Habitat Report, State of World’s Cities 2008/2009-
Harmonious Cities, defines cities in terms of --
• Cities contain both order and chaos.
• In them reside beauty and ugliness--virtue and vice.
• They can bring out best or worst in human kind.
• They are physical manifestation of history and culture
• They are incubators of innovations, industry, technology,
entrepreneurship and creativity.
• Cities are materialization of humanity’s noblest ideas, ambitions and
aspirations,
• but when not planned or governed properly, can be repository of
society’s ills.
• Cities drive national economies by creating wealth, enhancing social
development and providing employment but
• they can also be breeding grounds for poverty, exclusion and
environmental degradation.
4. Cities and their Context
• Cities have been part of human history.
• - Cities- known to command power and authority
• .Cities- known for both -- positivity and negativities
• Cities -- known for their dualities and contradictions
• Cities -- known to be areas of concentration of population/
activities, infrastructures, services, healthcare, education
• Cities -- Engines of economic growth-
• Cities - generators of employment , wealth and prosperity,
• Cities – also known for their negativities,
• – where rich & poor rub shoulders-
• Cities – large consumers of resources/energy/ land
• Cities- generators of waste
• Cities – consuming large energy
• Cities--- generating majorityof carbon footprints-
• Cities -- largely responsible for global warming-
5. Cities and their Context
• Cities- remain a manmade , mechanical habitat
• Cities- destroy natural habitat-anti-thesis to bio-diversity
• Cities- known as creator of best/ worst living conditions-
• Cities- home to large migrants
• Cities- home to slums
• Cities- remain in crisis- natural and manmade
• Crisis-- of population, poverty, pollution
• Cities – ever evolving ,devolving, never static, never finite
• Cities – shall remain dominant in future
• Cities- drivers of nation’s future
• Cities - need rationalization
• Cities –made more-- bio-diverse; productive, effective,
efficient, humane, livable, inclusive, safe, Resilient
,sustainable and Healthy place to live /work
11. Indian Urbanization
• 250 million in 1919
• 1210 million in 2011
• 1410- MILLION-2023
• 2050- Indian population- 1600 mil. -- 50%
in Urban India.
• Metropolitan Centres -5 (1951)- -53 (2011)-
68(2031)
• 10 m plus- nil (1951)- 3 (2011) -7 (2031)-9
(2051)
• During last 100 years, India witnessed—
- -Urbanization level going up by 3 times
- --Urban settlements growing merely 4
times
- --Total Population multiplying 5 times
- -Urban population increasing 15 times and
- -Rural population increasing 3.5 times
- India became most populated country on
this planet- April 2023- 1.41 billion
12. Indian Urbanization
• Urban area important because ;
Areas of concentration of population,
Providers of large employment.
Areas of large investment.
Housing major infrastructure & services.
Hub around which entire economy gravitates.
Promoters of higher order of productivity
• Major contributors to the national wealth/GDP
1950-51 - 29% (level of urbanization - 17.29%)
1970-71- 37% (level of urbanization - 19.91%)
1990-91- 50% (level of urbanization - 25.72%)
2001-02- 60% (level of urbanization - 27.78%)
2011- 12- 65% (level of urbanization - 31.1%)
10 Largest cities - 8%pop -- produce 15%GDP
53 Metro cities - 13 %pop --produce 33%GDP
100 Largest cities -16%pop -produce 43%GDP
13. Urbanization-issues
• Despite large positivity Urban centers involve negativities
Poorly planned, developed managed and governed.
Unable to meet challenges of urban dynamism
Haphazard /Unplanned pattern of development.
Enormous growth of slums
• Poor quality of life
• largely unhealthy-House large polluting gases of NO, O3,
Co2,SO2 suspended particulate
• -98% cities in low& low/middle countries / 56% in high
income economies do not meet air quality –WHO norms
• 6 million people died -due to air pollution-2019-20
• Cities Remain unsafe
• Cities -- Remain water stressed
• Unable to meet basic needs of
• -Shelter
• --Services ,
• --Sanitation
14. Urbanization-issues
• Cities--Have acute shortage of green spaces
• Remain prone to disasters- natural and manmade
• Create large heat island- leading to temperature rise
of 2-4 degree during day and up to 10 C at night
• Perpetually suffering from problems of traffic and
transportation
• Promoting exclusion
• Creating dichotomy between rich and poor
• Remain unsustainable- largely dependent on rural
hinterland for day to day needs
• Remain large consumer of energy / resources
• Remain polluter of environment / destroyer of bio-
diversity
• Indian Urbanization rightly called :
Urbanization of Population
Urbanization of Poverty
Urbanization of Pollution
18. Reasons for Carbon footprints
• Climate action in cities - essential for achieving
net-zero emissions goals.
• Cities house > 50% of global population,
• Generate - 70% of global GDP,
• Account for- 2/3rd of global energy
consumption
• Responsible > 70% annual global carbon
emissions.
• These factors expected to grow significantly
• by 2050 > 70% world’s population to live in
cities-- massive increase in growth of demand
19. Reasons for Carbon footprints
• Huge carbon footprint created by cities results from
increasing population large consumption of black
energy;
• poor planning , layout, development
• -lack of open spaces- lack of vegetation
• –Paving cities- creating Urban Heat Island
• Low-density suburban sprawl
• Limited public transport ;
• Large Travel demand- - more cars on urban roads--
roads emitting carbon dioxide
• ever-increasing building footprints- materials used for
construction- building typologies-Tall Buildings
• using fossil fuels for cooling buildings
21. Making Cities Carbon Neutral
• Cities - key to a net-zero emissions - where
affordable /sustainable green energy made
accessible to all
• Rationalising Urban Planning
• – Redefining cities- shape, size
• Redefining order of planning
• Rationalization- building planning, designing,
construction - reduce emissions by 350 Mt CO2
by 2050
• Rationalising Urban transport -accounts for 4
billion tonnes of CO2-eq,- more than 40% of
transport sector’s total emissions
• Creating more open spaces-Overcoming Heat
22. SDG 11- Make cities and human settlements
inclusive ,safe, resilient and sustainable
25. Promoting Planned Development
• UNDP-- ‘ Cost of poorly planned urbanization;
• make cities littered with--- huge slums, tangled traffic,
• greenhouse gas emissions ,
• sprawling suburbs
• Consuming large energy
• Opting for sustainable planning leads to;
• - Empowering cities
• -- citizens living a decent life
• -- creating shared prosperity
• - having social stability,
• - preserving environment’.
• -making cities dynamic spaces for living -working.
• - become least consumers of energy
• - generators of minimum carbon footprints
26. Promoting Planned Development
• Globally- planning known for ability for---
• --promoting operational efficiency of cities,
• --Managing carbon footprints;
• -minimizing climate change,
• Reducing global warming & emission of greenhouse gases.
• Bringing land uses in close proximity &
• connecting them through an efficient network of services/
• - -de-centralization cities in small/ compact, self-contained /
self-sufficient Neighborhoods,
• Providing facilities -healthcare, education, shopping, leisure
• Rationalizing travel and traffic
• Promoting pedestrianization/ walkability.
• -making buildings sustainable,
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• The Radiant City
•An organism capable of housing works of
man of machine-age society.
• placed under masterful government of
natural conditions:
•Sun
•Space
•Greenery
•And its mission is service of mankind:
•To live
•To work
•To cultivate body and spirit
•To travel about
(in this order and obeying this
hierarchy)
32. Rationalizing Development of Core Areas;
• Core areas in existing/historic cities house -
• -large population in a small/compact area; -
• -having large built-up area
• -housing large proportion of trade/commerce
• -remain invariably crowded-
• - have little open/breathing spaces.
• - remain warmer/hotter than periphery
• - hotbeds of global warming, -- climate change/ generators
large carbon footprints
• -Creating problems of environment, pollution, congestion
traffic/transportation in urban areas.
• For making cities carbon neutral/low carbon;
• --would require decongest the core areas on priority,
33. Rationalizing Development of Core Areas;
• difficult to decongest – need exploring options like,
• -- minimizing entry of mechanical /fossil fuel-based vehicles;
• -promoting pedestrianization;
• -shifting wholesale trade to areas identified
• -using area vacated by wholesale trade --for creating open
spaces.
• -With landscaping- reduced congestion- reduced vehicles
count- reduced noise/pollution - reduced fossil fuel
consumption, -achieve reduction in carbon count.
• --help cities becoming low carbon,
• --least emitter of greenhouse gases
• promoters of environment /ecology
• Bringing nature in the core areas
34. Rationalizing Development of Core Areas;
• -- Creating Green roofs
• - Green roof, globally proved efficacy /effectiveness in
-- increase green footprints of the city,
- make building energy efficient
absorbing solar heat falling on buildings.
-reduced air-conditioning for internal spaces of buildings
minimising heat loss/ heat gain.
Plants in green roof –absorb solar heat
- generating oxygen,
cleaning environment,
-minimize flooding by absorbing/retaining excessive water
providing space for socialization.
create win-win situation for owners, users, communities,
climate/ cities
promoting global sustainability by educing carbon footprints of
38. Compact City- Heat Reduction
• -Form, shape; size of city -major determinant of sustainability, greenhouse
gas ; carbon emissions
• Heat reduction ignored in urban planning- even when temperatures rising
• All citizens entitled to- thermally safe indoor/ outdoor environment
• Making Cities Cool-Changing City planning options
• - from expanding/sprawling –to Compact Cities
• -offer distinct advantages-
• Minimize expositing earth surface to solar radiation.
• --Promoting walkability
• - Minimising area under road
• – replacing roads by streets---shaded by adjoining buildings
• - changing materials/ built for cities- - responsible for heating cities.
• Cities dominated by dark/hard materials – concrete, asphalt, paving
• – absorb solar radiation-
• conventional paving heated up to 67 C &
• roofs up to 50–90 C, on hot day.
42. PLANNING COMPACT CITIES
Make cities compact by;
– promoting High-density development
-- adopting Transit oriented development
-- Raising Height and
-Rationalizing land uses
-Reviewing Building bye-laws
-Building inside not outside
--- Building vertical not horizontal
--- Building High not low
--- Building mix not pure
---Building dense not shallow
----- optimizing current infrastructure.
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43. Making Cities Safe- Compact Cities
• Make cities Compact-
• -Avoids urban sprawl.
• -- Make cities Safer- than cities spread over a large area.
• Makes cities More Sustainable -Reduced Service Network
• - Promote Pedestrianisation - provide walkable access to
transport, entertainment and public spaces
• -- Ensures safety-a safe space for walking and cycling.-Less
Accidents
• More Economical for Development
• Land Efficient--Cost-efficient -Socially More Vibrant
• -Less Cars – less parking – less pollution - Less Carbon
footprints
• --- Compact cities- Stockholm /Tokyo have lowest traffic
fatality rates in world—1.5 deaths per 100,000 residents.
• Sprawling Atlanta--death rate six times- 9 fatalities per
100,000 residents.
47. Amazing Future Green City of
World –Musdar –Abu Dhabi-UAE
A city of 50,000population
City of no cars , no waste
Planned to make use of cool sea winds
Using solar energy on rooftop
Narrow streets shading houses
Total recycling of waste/water
working/ living area-- not farther
than200 mts from transportation nodes.
Electric powered light rail on elevated
track -- for easy transport between
Musdar and Abu Dhabi.
•for Intra-city travel-- people use
personal rapid transit pods (PRT) run on
magnetic tracks using electric power.
•Aim is to create:
Zero Carbon
Zero Waste
Zero Car city
48. TIANJIN- Master Plan
..
1. Land-use Planning –Making city compact, mix land uses
and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
2. Transport Planning -Green transport .—Large trips via
public transport ; bicycles and walking
3. Green and Blue Network Planning---extensive green
(vegetation) and blue (water) networks – for quality living /working
environment.
4. Water bodies --linked for circulation – enhancing ecology ,
environment , recreational activities.
5. A wastewater pond -rehabilitated /transformed into a clean/beautiful lake.
51. --Redefining approach to Land-use Planning.
-Redefining shape and size of cities
-Making cities compact
--Reordering prioritization of modes of travel
Planning for People-- not for vehicles
Promoting Accessibility-- Not Mobility
-Making public transport -more equitable,
reliable, affordable, safe, comfortable,
sustainable, energy/operationally efficient, cost-
effective, eco/ users friendly
•Equitable allocation of road space.
•Road Pricing
• Promoting intelligent/smart transportation
•Creating public awareness
•Involving communities/ stakeholders
•Deregistration of Old Vehicles
•Establishing effective regulatory/enforcement
mechanisms
SMART TRANSPORTATION
52. Defining Sustainable Transport
• Sustainable Transport --
• -- sometimes known as Green Transport
• -- form of transport that does not use / rely
on dwindling natural resources.
• -- relies on renewable /regenerated energy
• -- rather than fossil fuels that have a finite life
expectancy
53.
54. Curitiba’s futuristic ‘tube’ station system for buses--,85%
Curitiba uses Bus Rapid Transit -- transporting two million
each day-- London subway carries three million-- BRT built
in 1974; now 300 cities around world are using
.”
60. Circular Economy Cities- need
• By 2050- two-third humanity opt for urban areas
• taking up just 3 per cent of global landmass,
• consuming > 75 % of natural resources,
• generating 50 % of solid waste and
• emitting 60 % of greenhouse gases
• Contributing to pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss.
• cities characterized by
• - large concentration of human beings,
• -consumption of large resources, ;
• -spread over a relatively small geographic area.
• intensity of growth/development / concentration
• - of activities/human beings/industry/institutions,
• - cities best positioned to support circular business models,- -
- based on sharing, reuse or product-as-a-service models.
61. Circular Economy Cities
• - Operating on linear principle of take-make-waste economy,
• - globally cities created prosperity for last two centuries,- now
threatening human livelihood.
• - cities emerged as large consumers of- natural resources,
• - store house /breeding grounds of waste-
• Making Cities unsustainable/ inefficient
• Cities need to be planned, designed, constructed on principle of circular
economy, to make them
• - energy / resource efficient
• - generators of least waste
• - eliminators of carbon footprints.
• - -- making them vibrant, sustainable
• --bring enormous economic, social, environmental benefits
62. Circular Economy Cities
• -; Rationale, of circular economy in the urban planning -
Planet earth - finite with finite resources
Rapid depletion of resources - created over centuries.
Cities getting littered with large waste
-Polluting air , land , environment generated by waste-Making Cities polluted /
inefficient
Large manpower/ mechanical resources involved in handling waste
Ever increasing demand for land-- for dumping urban waste
Generating green-house gases-- promoting global warming, climate change
Increasing population - asking for more resources
Limited capacity -of planet for replenishing depleted natural resources
Inefficient / wasteful production processes-- consuming large resources
Challenge posed by adoption of take- make-waste processes.
Challenges posed by-- limited use of products
Challenges posed by rapid urbanization / uncontrolled migration
Inability of cities-- to provide basic services/infrastructures to inhabitants
Cities becoming - liability on both natural - manmade resources
Rising attitude of consumerism in human living
-- shortening life of goods and services produced and consumed.
64. Circular Economy Cities
Ellen MacArthur; adopting circular economy-waste is
eliminated
• - products /materials used throughout lifecycle
• - natural systems regenerated.
• –focus on reuse, repair, refurbishment
• when no longer be of use, then recycling.
• - approach involve changing
• - what we produce - how we produce –
• - - includes adopting modular design,
• designing for renewable materials,
• designing for easy repair/ disassembly/ designing new
products -with backwards compatibility - parts can
have multiple applications and used longer
65. Circular Economy Cities
• - circular city embedded with principles of circular economy .
• Everything operating in interconnected network
• designed to eliminate waste and pollution,
• circulate products and materials, regenerate nature.
• Having collaboration between citizens, government, research
facilities, businesses.
• City powered by renewable energy.
• All products, services, infrastructure, buildings, vehicles
designed as- durable, adaptable, modular, easy to maintain
and repurpose, from locally sourced materials
• Everything can be composted, reused, or recycled.
• Net outcome - a thriving local economy providing a vibrant,
livable and resilient way of life
66. Circular Economy Cities-Advantges
Adopting circular economy in urban planning – Help citi becoming net zero-
energy/water, net zero-waste and Net zero- carbon
Mitigating worst impacts of climate change /global warming
Minimising consumption of natural resources;
making planet earth more sustainable.
Achieving agenda, goals . targets ordained in 17, SDGs
Helping cities, regions/ country eliminate- waste, circulate materials;
regenerate nature
Making cities clean , green, happy and healthy space for working/ livable
Eliminating nearly half of the global emissions,
Empowering people / businesses-
Re-looking at how we approach our goods / services.
Redefining approach to redesigning, producing
Using goods to eliminate waste / circulate materials
Generating new typologies of industries;
redefining raw materials and finished goods
67. Making Circular Economy a Distinct Reality;
•Making Planning , designing , constructing , managing cities, on circular economy we
would need;
•- active involvement /working closely with professionals/industry/policy makers/
professional institutes/academic institutions engaged in teaching- learning
•-Making circular economy part of urban planning process
•-Redefining Planning system /processes/tools/approach
•Improving Understanding of panners that circular economy is here to stay,
• collaboration across value chain/across industries.
• Circular Valley, the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area- creating model for collaboration,
what is poised to become the-- global centre of Circular Economy.. drawing global
market leaders- all sectors/ value chain for circular solutions.
• housing> 70 universities/ scientific institutions
•- focussing on material /production
•-- ensuring easy access to latest research / innovation.
• - harnessing capabilities from across sectors
68. Road blocks-in Making Circular Economy a Reality
• Biggest obstacles- Lack of awareness about circular economy
by planners
• non-availability of technologies for circular economy in
developing economies
•-Concentration of technologies- in developed markets;
• Non-availability of adequate resources
•;in-adequate legal/regulatory framework;
• inadequate skill, knowledge, understanding and expertise;
• lack of research/development and
• non- involvement of stakeholders;– state/parastatal agencies.
• need support / involvement of all professional - urban planners
development, management, industry businesses.
• Creating appropriate policy framework
69. Options- for Making Circular Economy a Reality
• Making Circular Economy integral part of urban planning process
• Reshaping cities; Planning for sustainable cities- Making cities compact
Redefining planning tools- Master Plans, Development Plans, Zonal Plans
• Planning for flatted development- instead plotted development
• Planning for Optimisation of land Resource - Using land 24x7x365
• Rationalising Planning Norms and Standards -Undertaking Land Audit
• -Planning Compact Cities --Promoting brown field development
• -Rationalising travel, traffic and transportation
• -Planning for people and not vehicles; Promoting accessibility- not mobility
• -Promoting Neighbourhood Planning
• -Redefining planning requirements-
• - Creating spaces for collection and processing of waste
• Using Local Materials
• -Using Re-cycled Materials
• -Opting for Modular Construction
• Opting for Off-site construction
79. Trees- Man Ratio
A human breathes about 9.5 tonnes of air /year
-- oxygen only makes up about 23 % of air by mass
-- One third of oxygen from each breath-- 740kg of oxygen / year.-
- -- roughly, seven / eight trees’ worth.
80. Greening Cities
Available open space/person in India-2.7 sqm
-Number of available trees/ person- Canada- 10,163
-Number of available trees-India- very low-- 28 trees
/person
-Need for Creating a network of interconnected Green
parks/ spaces @ 7 Trees / person
-Providing Green Space@ 9 Sqm/ pers
-Compensating all hard surfaces-- with greens within
buildings roofs/walls
-Greening Roofs/terraces/ Walls
-Preserving all natural areas
-Preserving water channels/ features/ Bio- Diversity
-Protecting existing flora/faun -Creating City Forests
- Using derelict areas for greening
- Greening all low lying areas
Declaring all existing trees as protected tree- Chandigarh
-Using local trees
81. Making Cities Cool-Heat Reduction
• Phasing out black/dark roofs in warm climates,
• Applying white-coatings to roads/roofs facades,
• Reflect more solar energy-save city from
prevailing high temperature.
• For promoting Cool cities
• -Paris, rationalized mobility by- creating new
bike lanes / limiting speed limit to 30 km/h for
motorized traffic.
• Havana-promoted urban agriculture
• Curitiba –used bus based mass transportation,
• Amsterdam --emerged world’s cycling capital.
90. BUILDINGS AS CONSUMERS OF
RESOURCES
•Built environment impact environment / consumption of
resources:
16% of world’s fresh water withdrawal.
25% of wood harvested.
30% of consumption of raw material.
50% of global energy consumption.
35% of world’s
CO2 emission
40% of Municipal solid waste.
50% of Ozone depleting CFC’s still in use.
30% of the residents having sick building syndrome
( Roodman and Lenssen, 1995)
•70% global warming--outcome of buildings / transportation
•Buildings planned, designed and operated with utmost care
for considerations--- energy/ sustainability/resources
91. Defining- Green Buildings
•Buildings can achieve zero carbon by; Adopting Integrated
approach to design-Planning with nature, natural elements,
Climate, Evolving passive building design,- eliminating using
fossil fuel --for heating, cooling /air conditioning
• using on-site/off-site renewable energy,Retrofitting Buildings
•reducing use of high global warming potential refrigerants
92. Daylighting
Local materials
Indian Way of approaching design
• Rediscovery of the Indian ethos
– We worship 5 elements of Nature (Panchabhutas)
Prithvi (Earth) Sustainable Sites
Jal (Water) Water Efficiency
Agni (Energy) Energy Efficiency
Vayu (Air) Indoor Environmental Quality
Akash (Sky) Daylight
Views
Water body
96. Smart Technologies
• Using smart technologies for ;
• -- smart parking- to help find a parking space / allow for digital
payment.
• -- smart traffic management-- to monitor traffic flows / optimise
traffic lights to reduce congestion/ride-sharing services / digital bus
stops- bus schedule -Managing Traffic/parking --Minimizing travel
• Promoting Energy conservation / environmental efficiencies-
dimming streetlights when roads are empty–
• -- improving operations /maintenance / planning of power
supplies.
• -- Combat climate change / air pollution
• -- Promoting safety measures-- monitoring areas of high crime--
using sensors for early warning for floods, landslides, hurricanes or
droughts.
• -- Smart buildings --structural health monitoring -- feedback to
determine when repairs are necessary.
-- connect all services to provide combined solutions for citizens.
99. Future Cities-Conceptual
Ultima Tower- 2Mile High Sky City
•Location: Any densely populated urban
environment
•Date: 1991
•Cost: $150,000,000,000
•Population: 1,000,000 people
•Exterior surface area of building: 150,000,000
sft.
•Enclosed volume: 53,000,000,000 cubic feet
•Total enclosed acreage: 39,000 acres-156
secors
•Elevator speed: 20 feet per second (13 miles
per hour) 9 minutes and 40 seconds to reach
top floor from ground floor.
•Dimensions: Height--10,560 feet;
•Diameter at the base--6000 feet;
•Number of stories--500;
•Total Square Feet: Approximately 5,000,000 sft
100. Earth Scraper – Mexico City
• Location- Mexico City
• Depth 300 m below ground
• Designed as Inverted Pyramid
• Glass floor to cover 240 mtrs X
240 mtrs. hole in cities main
square to filter natural light
• Preserve cities historic centre
and heritage buildings
surrounding square.
• Interior of building to look
natural.
• Building -- city’s top retail
destination.
101. •
Three Mantra for Sustainable/Carbon neutr
cities
• 1. Achieve smart growth
• -- finding best options to do things sustainably
• -- promoting economic growth of people –
• -- making them earn good livelihood
• -- make them enjoy a good quality of life.
• 2. Do more with less–
• -- cities need money-- to accomplish all wants .
• --Cities to collect, manage resources effectively/ efficiently
• 3. Win support for change-
• - City leaders need to;-- deliver fast, positive, /visible results,
• - build support for changes.-- Involving high-performing civil
servants
• -- Embedding accountability for their work—Singapore model