The housing solutions, apart from being sustainable, also need to be viable for the target groups in terms of their needs and affordability. The housing stock is also projected to double in the next two decades. (Figure 1.2: Considerable changes in various factors over the years) If sufficient thought is not put into the urban design, transportation and affordability for the urbanization to follow, the quality of urban services would decline drastically by 2030, as per Figure 1.2
Some of Indian cities have had the highest rates of air pollution in the world. The infrastructure in the cities has not been able to keep up with the over-densification and almost all the infrastructure networks from water, waste, transport to housing have become saturated.
The rise in Indian economy in the last couple of decades has created many job opportunities in the cities leading to a rapid influx of migrants from the rural areas to the urban areas. India being the second most populated country in the world has some of the most densely populated cities in the world. The cities are going to be the engines of growth for India to become a developed nation and so, the quality of life needs to be improved for sustaining the growth in the long term.
It is estimated that by 2030, more than 40% of Indians would be living in urban areas contributing to about 70% of the GDP. However in the race of rapid urbanization and globalization we have lost these practices leading to unsustainable growth of cities.Īs per Figure 1.1, by 2008, 30% of Indian population was living in cities generating 58% of the total GDP of India. It is in the Indian culture system to find use for everything, which may be considered as waste by many. He insisted for the growth of human beings from every stratum of the society and to avoid wasteful use of resources. He Propounded having self-sufficient village communities to achieve this goal, having a civilization built on renewable resources. Mahatma Gandhi envisioned a society where the man would live in harmony with nature.
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