Shaping Indian Cities

Shaping Indian Cities: Planning and design with smart city technologies

Sarkar, Alankrita (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism)

Nadin, Vincent (mentor)
Hackauf, Ulf (mentor)
Zijlstra, Sake (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

Complex Cities

2017-07-07

With the emergence of the latest concept of smart cities, there is a rapid change of lifestyle and a mass migration to cities. At the same time, cities have high demands of infrastructure such as transport and building, and resources such as food, water, and energy, as well as issues like scarcity of adequate land, unapproachable government. All these are adding to the extreme need to find smarter solutions for cities, that can provide better lieable conditions for the citizens. Thus, the Indian government planned 100 smart city project. Many questions were raised on the proposal justification on time, money, approach and objectives. Through this project, I am evaluating the current proposal as an urbanist and using the opportunity to refine the project for a realistic and promising future, rather than creating a label of smartness.

In this project, I explore the conditional development of smart cities, investigating various examples from different continents and producing an analytical framework towards the approach of making a city smarter. These examples are assisting me to set guidelines, to shape the Indian cities with its own definition of smartness. The focal point of this project is Delhi, but the other Indian cities will be able to learn from the process of selection of projects and principles. Although, due to lack of time, I would emphasis of few sectors of smartness, in selective neighbourhoods of Delhi.

strategic planning
smart cities
Indian cities
spatial planning
urbanism

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Student theses

master thesis

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