School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi

About: School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi is a education organization based out in New Delhi, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Smart city. The organization has 278 authors who have published 347 publications receiving 1665 citations.

Policy-implementation dynamics of national housing programmes in India – evidence from Madhya Pradesh

Abstract: The supply of housing, particularly for lower economic households, remains a major challenge in India. Given the vast scale and diversity of the country, implementation of centrally administered ho...

Environmentally Sustainable Development of Urban Settlements In India: A Framework For Development of Indicators

Abstract: There have been numerous efforts worldwide at various scales (global/national/regional/ local) in the field of development of sustainable development indicators, focussing on either one or all of its various dimensions, following the Rio Summit in 1992. However, India has fallen behind in the area of development of Sustainable Development Indicators and none of the Indian cities figure in the review of the IISD Compendium, the most comprehensive database to date to keep track of Indicators efforts. A review of the initiatives by several international agencies and countries in formulation of the sustainability indicators though provide necessary guidance, the final framework needs to address the urban sustainability issues in the Indian context. The objective of this paper is to develop a set of indicators at macro and micro level for environmentally sustainable development of the urban settlements in India. It involves recommending an approach, a methodology and a structural framework for deriving the indicators set at various levels focussing on resource dynamics of urban settlements. Domain based classification has been followed wherein domains have been identified based on essential natural and built in resources. Further, for each domain environmental sustainability determinants have been recognised and based on them multilevel indicators have been identified with a goal of greater livibility and quality of life. A way forward has been given for the evaluation of indicators for formulation of policies at national level and action plan at local level with stakeholder’s participation. key words: Environmental Sustainability, Urban Settlements, Frameworks, Indicators, Macro level, Micro level.

Planning for Low-Carbon Smart Cities in India

Abstract: A human greed is never ending which gives rise to social as well as environmental externalities. In the past decade, India’s extraordinary urbanization has analogous growth in primary energy demand. With urban per capita scenario, commercial energy prompts three times higher energy demand than rural areas because urban areas are the foundation of energy and CO2 emission giving rise to climate change. This paper will first review the traditional practices and approaches in the context of the low-carbon cities and related climate-resilient cities initiatives, as development strategies for addressing and highlighting urbanization challenges. An attempt has been made through this study to explore the major root causes and factors of climate change and variable ideas of low-carbon resilient cities. The article is an exploratory type, in which different practices worldwide for a low-carbon and resilient city model have been incorporated.

Implementation Challenges for Establishing Smart Urban Information and Knowledge Management System

Abstract: In the present knowledge and information age, Indian towns are expanding rapidly in spatial and demographic terms. Moreover, spatial information are not correlated with the complex urban integrated problems, as data generated at various levels for urban planning remains uncoordinated and redundant to support decision-making and leading to poor urban governance. Hence, there is an urgent need to create common platform so as to address problems and issues in the right perspective to assist cities in coping with economic realities and, thereby, produce high-quality responsive environment and demonstrate successful urban solutions. Thus, in order to address these issues in a holistic manner, the Ministry of Urban Development has launched the National Urban Information System (NUIS) Scheme. The implementation of the NUIS Scheme would ultimately lead to e-Governance. In this context, the present paper is an attempt to address the various challenges like enhancing organizational capacity; cooperation between various stakeholders, accessibility of data, capacity building; and standardization of data format for the implementation of the Urban Information and Knowledge Management (UIKM) system in India. To establish the Digital Urban Information System in India is not simply a challenge but a mission to foster the mind of town planners and urban managers to tackle the real world problems only after analyzing the virtual world situations. Moreover, this paper also discusses that how establishment of effective efficient information system will pave the way for development of smart cities in India.

The Tenth Delhi: economy, politics and space in the post-liberalisation metropolis

Abstract: Recent studies of the post-liberalisation Indian metropolis have largely followed a theoretical framework from contemporary urban sociology in the West, drawn from David Harvey, Manuel Castells and Saskia Sassen, among others These studies show the contemporary city being shaped by global transnational capital—which accumulates wealth through dispossession—resulting in a clearing of the poor and marginal from central urban areas to the periphery, and replacing them with middle- and upper-class newcomers Concomitantly, new jobs in these cities have shifted from industrial manufacturing to post-industrial services for large transnational firms connected through international networks of global capital These theories suggest that in the neoliberal city the welfare state has receded, surrendering its role of protecting working-class housing and employment to the interests of transnational capital We argue that by identifying processes that unfold in New York or Paris in New Delhi, these studies only capture a small part of the picture of urban transformation in contemporary India In the case of New Delhi, we show how Economic Liberalisation has fundamentally restructured India’s capital city, producing a new iteration of the ancient metropolis, which we call the “Tenth Delhi” However, the new order does not, for the most part, resemble the above-described Western-derived theories Instead of jettisoning its poor, Delhi has become a magnet for the working classes from across India There are now more migrants each year to Delhi than to any other Indian city Instead of the periphery, or squatter settlements on the urban edge, the influx of migrants is found in the oldest settlements of the city, the so-called Lal Dora areas or “Urban Villages”, where new forms of rental housing have emerged The cases of displacement and dispossession in Delhi are well documented, but little has been written about the more large-scale phenomena of “regularisation” where hundreds of the “Unauthorised” housing colonies that exist across the city have been formally regularised Through a case study of one neighbourhood called Taimoor Nagar, which contains a patchwork of multiple types of spaces, populations and economic activities, this paper seeks to understand how things work at a small scale to explain a larger system, and to identify patterns that repeat across urban space in terms of spatial ordering, informal norms, economic relations and political change We argue that capital-intensive dispossession has not been the primary form of urban transformation in post-Liberalisation New Delhi The liberalisation of state control over spaces and types of economic activity and the expansion of democratically elected representation in this period has also been dramatically important When most of the economy is unregulated, and most of urban space is unplanned, democratic politics mediates the relationship between urban citizens and the rule of law