The purpose of the book is to explore study and then recommend futuristic Indian smart & sustainable cities.The book is divided into eight chapters: Evolution of Human Settlements, Global Green Walkable Cities, Transformation of National Capital of India, Existing Sustainable Indian Cities, Futuristic, Smart and Sustainable Cities, Intermodality and Last Mile Connectivity, New Smart Cities and Sustainable Indian Smart Cities.Īs title suggest, Chapter 1 states Evolution of human settlement right from the prehistoric period to till date journey travelled through early civilizations. The more you respect mother earth more you learn to design organic built form and try to be associated with nature. In the Indian context with smart city program launched in 2015, there lies much hypes and referred to cities to be technologically advanced and smart in information & communications.As author says sustainability as such has no benchmark. Most of developing nations are approaching 0.7 HDI which is considered 'high human development', the bench mark given by United Nations.The book demonstrates changing definitions of architecture and town planning with understanding the complexities of the city design. We are probably in the most peaceful and advance stage of development since the beginning of human evolution on the earth.
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