Uploaded on 2015-10-03 by mishrasujeet

---------- **Livability as I see:** Ability to a space to accommodate people and their needs at a certain level of comfort. --------- **How I see future of cities:** One first need to note the setting of the city-is the city set in a country where the rural-urban migration and the population stabilised? For a country with well stabilised population and rural-urban mix, future would be largely as it is today even with business as usual approach. However, for a country like India: Where the population is not yet stabilised-set to increase from current 1.3 Bn to almost 1.65 Bn before dipping in another three decades, From present- a third of population, to more than half the population would live in cities in another three decades, Where urbanisation is termed hidden and messy (WB: http://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/indian-urbanisation-messy-reforms-needed-world-bank/article7693155.ece) Existing cities are increasingly adding more dwellings as their civic infrastructure further weakens. prognosis is bleak with business as usual approach. So going by the numbers, no where in past, that I am aware, has such an accelerated and massive urbanisation has happened under democracy. This is seriously testing conventional paradigm of urban planning. I have proposed multi-node urban clusters instead of planning for a city. This is borne out of the realisation that Urban-Suburban-Sprawl & Satellites beyond model has exhauasted itself in India. What I propose is that India needs to give a bias to uncontrolled and as WB says, messy urbanisation. To start with we draw a circle of 500 km on existing major cities and take in the smaller cities in this circle (an economic circle)-these nodes should then be connected through rail/road links giving axes for future urbanisation ( http://swarajyamag.com/author/sujeetmishra/ ). Further, Cities now have to plan for urban freight mobility on similar footing as people mobility. As can be seen in the following mind map-people mobility is but one part for a city to be comfortably livable (giving non-residential needs of a city). ![Non residential requirements of a city][1] [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14437832626308676.jpg