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Sustainability in Indian Cities: A Developing Country Perspective
High concentration of resources in urban areas has resulted in sustainability risks in all dimensions—economic, social, and ecological. This is more pronounced in developing countries that are characterized by high polarization of pattern of resource use not only between urban and rural areas, but also between rich and poor within urban areas. This study, highlighting the socio-economic importance of cities, outlines the sustainability challenges a typical Indian city faces. Like other developing economies, a push-driven urbanization in India has led to mushrooming of slums, strains on infrastructure on basic services with demand outstripping supply, and thereby the merits of urbanization has not been fully realized. The study pinpoints that provision of more flexible housing options in cities would mitigate the crisis. A step-wise housing option is proposed where a rural migrant’s first shelter is a working people hostel followed by low-cost housing, which are located at the periphery of the city, but connected with the core by rapid public commuting system. This, coupled with measures to control population in general, would address several targets under sustainable development goals for cities pertaining to housing, transportation, waste management, green space and climate and disaster resilience and over and above, the goal of city without slums.
Sustainability in Indian Cities: A Developing Country Perspective
High concentration of resources in urban areas has resulted in sustainability risks in all dimensions—economic, social, and ecological. This is more pronounced in developing countries that are characterized by high polarization of pattern of resource use not only between urban and rural areas, but also between rich and poor within urban areas. This study, highlighting the socio-economic importance of cities, outlines the sustainability challenges a typical Indian city faces. Like other developing economies, a push-driven urbanization in India has led to mushrooming of slums, strains on infrastructure on basic services with demand outstripping supply, and thereby the merits of urbanization has not been fully realized. The study pinpoints that provision of more flexible housing options in cities would mitigate the crisis. A step-wise housing option is proposed where a rural migrant’s first shelter is a working people hostel followed by low-cost housing, which are located at the periphery of the city, but connected with the core by rapid public commuting system. This, coupled with measures to control population in general, would address several targets under sustainable development goals for cities pertaining to housing, transportation, waste management, green space and climate and disaster resilience and over and above, the goal of city without slums.
Sustainability in Indian Cities: A Developing Country Perspective
Sustainable Development Goals Series
Hazra, Somnath (Herausgeber:in) / Bhukta, Anindya (Herausgeber:in) / Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle (Autor:in)
28.07.2020
15 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Housing , Transportation , Waste-management , Green space , Climate and disaster resilience , Push-driven urbanization , Urbanization , Rural migrant’s , Sustainability risks , Economic development , Social development , Cities , SDG 11 , Sustainable development Environment , Sustainable Development , Economic Geography , Development Economics , Climate Change Management and Policy , Development and Sustainability , World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions) , Economics and Finance
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