Cities of India: Changes and Choices by Binti Singh ISBN 9781003600428, 1003600425 instant download

Cities of India: Changes and Choices by Binti Singh ISBN 9781003600428, 1003600425 instant download

Urban India stands at an interesting moment in history – at the cusp of massive
changes and cautious choices. This book maps the new challenges and subsequent
choices that emerge as India transitions into more urbanized situations, both
spatially and culturally – to cleaner and renewable energy, integrating these new
norms into the built environment, providing affordable and accessible physical
and social infrastructure to all citizens, addressing the disproportionate climate
risks of vulnerable communities, responding to the forces of globalization,
conserving our heritage assets, deploying smart technologies for better city
governance, designing for all, and integrating hard and soft city dimensions
for better policy outcomes and greater environmental and social impacts. It
underlines and explores the nuances of urban design and urban planning, as well
as how they are inextricably enmeshed with sustainability and climate action.
The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of urban
studies, built environment studies, South Asian studies, architecture, urban
design, urban planning, sustainability, geography, sociology, and cultural
studies.