Planning for cities of the future
ALL ACROSS the cities of India, citizens grapple every day with the multifold outcomes of rapid change and increasing crowds. We complain, we sigh, and sometimes we express our rage. Yet, in our hearts, each one of us holds some vision for the city in which we have tried to make our home.
Surely we all want our city, whether it is a megalopolis or an emerging town, to .be cleaner and greener, more convenient, less noisy, more like it was in the good old days, a better place to raise our children and more, much more?
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