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Environmental Sustainability of Smart Cities: Cues from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City Movement
India is expected to be home to seven mega-cities with population above 10 million by 2030. Several innovations are taking place in the direction of making cities environmentally sustainable. Sir Ebenezer Howard is famous and acknowledged for his Publication Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898). The publication is description of a utopian city in which people amicably reside in harmony with nature. The idea of Garden City evolved as an effective response to ensure good quality of life in overcrowded and dirty industrial towns. The environs of these towns had deteriorated and posed serious health risks. There is need to understand the various facets of Garden city and adopt in contemporary urban planning in Indian context. The present paper based on review literature endeavors to present various aspects of Garden City and how they can be adopted by contemporary urban planners to make city life relatively pollution-free and provide green and safe public spaces as envisaged in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030.
Environmental Sustainability of Smart Cities: Cues from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City Movement
India is expected to be home to seven mega-cities with population above 10 million by 2030. Several innovations are taking place in the direction of making cities environmentally sustainable. Sir Ebenezer Howard is famous and acknowledged for his Publication Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898). The publication is description of a utopian city in which people amicably reside in harmony with nature. The idea of Garden City evolved as an effective response to ensure good quality of life in overcrowded and dirty industrial towns. The environs of these towns had deteriorated and posed serious health risks. There is need to understand the various facets of Garden city and adopt in contemporary urban planning in Indian context. The present paper based on review literature endeavors to present various aspects of Garden City and how they can be adopted by contemporary urban planners to make city life relatively pollution-free and provide green and safe public spaces as envisaged in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030.
Environmental Sustainability of Smart Cities: Cues from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City Movement
Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
Mishra, Ram Kumar (editor) / Kumari, Ch Lakshmi (editor) / Chachra, Sandeep (editor) / Krishna, P. S. Janaki (editor) / Dubey, Anupama (editor) / Singh, R. B. (editor) / Pandey, Vinita (author)
2022-05-26
12 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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