THE FUTURE OF CITIES AND PLANNING
URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING-VIII
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
SUBMITTED BY- CHIRAG
SUBMITTED TO- MR.MANJEET ANTIL ROLL NO.-20001006021
The Urban Designer plays a key role in shaping the future of cities by providing innovative and aesthetic
designs for urban spaces while the Professional Planner ensures the functionality, efficiency, and equity of
these designs.
PLANNING FOR FUTURE CITIES
• Sustainable Visioning -Promoting State of art Planned Development Weaving nature with development bio-
diversity
• Carrying out land suitability analysis
• Making cities Compact
• Making Cities Spongy- keeping large area open/ promote water harvesting
-ground water charging
• Planning cities based on Circular Economy -Making cities Inclusive-Making Cities Safe
• Leveraging Technology
• Making cities Green/blue - Leveraging landscape/water
• Leveraging Culture, Heritage, Art / Architecture
• Creating Quality Public Spaces
• Designing low energy Buildings
• Making cities community/people centric
• Creating ownership
• Reconnecting cities to food productivity
• integrating agriculture into cities through holistic architecture
NEW ORDER OF PLANNING- REGIONAL
PLANNING
Reviewing planning tool , New order of planning to focus on Regional Planning:
• for Synergizing urban and rural areas
• Avoiding Urban Sprawl
• Stopping melting of cities
• Empowering cities/villages to making – productive, – self-sufficient –
sustainable, – energy/resource efficient,
• livable and humane,
• safe, resilient
• reducing carbon footprints, global warming, climate change-Reducing global
warming
THE RADIANT CITY
•An organism capable of housing the works of man of machine-age society.
• placed under the masterful government of natural conditions: •Sun
•Space
•Greenery
•And its mission is the service of mankind:
•To live
•To work
•To cultivate body and spirit
•To travel about (in this order and obeying this hierarchy)
FUTURE CITIES-CONCEPTUAL
ULTIMA TOWER
2Mile High Sky City
•Location: Any densely populated urban environment
•Date: 1991
•Cost: $150,000,000,000
•Population: 1,000,000 people
•Exterior surface area of building: 150,000,000 sft.
•Enclosed volume: 53,000,000,000 cubic feet
•Total enclosed acreage: 39,000 acres-156 sectors
•Elevator speed: 20 feet per second (13 miles per hour) 9 minutes and 40
seconds to reach top floor from ground floor.
•Dimensions: Height--10,560 feet;
•Diameter at the base--6000 feet;
•Number of stories--500;
•Total Square Feet: Approximately 5,000,000 sft
EARTH SCRAPER – MEXICO CITY
• Location- Mexico City
• Depth 300 m below ground
• Designed as Inverted Pyramid
• Glass floor to cover 240 mtrs X 240 mtrs. hole in cities
main square to filter natural light
• Preserve the cities historic centre and heritage buildings
surrounding square.
• Interior of building to look natural.
• Building to be city”s top retail destination.
FUTURE CITIES-NITI AYOG REPORT, SEPTEMBER 2021
• ‘ Reforms in Urban Planning Capacity in India’
• Cities of future- Planned, designed, developed /operated with nature
• Achieving agenda defined under SDG 11-
• making cities and communities-sustainable, safe, resilient/ inclusive
• making optimum use of natural resources of sun, air and verdure.
• Planning cities to be zero-carbon/ net zero-energy,/net zero-water and net zero-waste
• Cities to be environment / community/human centric- involving communities
• Identifying/preserving /promoting existing flora, fauna vegetation/water resources
• Planning Compact cities- Optimizing / minimizing use of land for urbanization - Rationalizing land use norms
using land 24 x7 x365- building vertically; increasing densities, using spaces below/above cities for urban
purposes; limiting areas under roads/parking;
• Adopting principle of limited land and unlimited space
• Reordering- transportation - made Green with focus on minimizing travel/ travel demand
• Minimizing flooding- planning spongy cities/ increasing green spaces / blue spaces
• Minimizing waste-Planning Circular Economy Cities
• Promoting green built environment- Planning for safety
• Planning using best options of technologies – redefining planning tools/MP/DP
• Redefining Planning education- having more quality planning professionals
THREE MANTRA FOR SUSTAINABLE/ INCLUSIVE/ RESILIENT CITIES
1. Achieve smart growth
• finding best options to do things sustainably
• promote economic growth for people –
• making them earn good livelihood
• make them enjoy a good quality of life.
2. Do more with less– • -- cities need money-- to accomplish all wants .
• Cities to collect, manage/spend resources effectively/ efficiently
3. Win support for change-
• City leaders need to;-- deliver fast, positive & visible results,
• build support for changes.
• Based on high-performing civil servants-- made accountable for their work—Singapore model
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