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	Chennai's growth challenge
	With a metropolitan population beyond 30 million inhabitants, Chennai city growth is relatively moderate. Land is already saturated and expensive. What is growing fast are the Towns and Villages Panchayats. Close to 5% annual on the 80’s it is now in the range of 3.60%. Other Indian metropolises are growing far beyond 5% annual. Pune’s figures are in the 10% range. One must realize that a 5% growth means duplicating (100%) the size of the city in 14 years. A 10% growth just in 7 years. These figures are the expression of the economic attractiveness of the city both for location of businesses as for the labor immigration in search of a job. But they are a real challenge for all the cities in India to allocate that growth and provide the necessary infrastructures to avoid leaving a heritage of slum-cities to future generations. Chennai metropolis must be aware that such a moderate growth has a two-fold interpretation. It is good because it is easier to manage. It is bad because it might prove that Chennai is not doing economically as well as other Indian metropolises. Those in charge should question themselves on this issue. As an easier challenge to address one must know however that a 3.60 % growth still means a 50% urban expansion in 20 years. Chennai must accommodate for that. The large metropolitan vision is what the Metro-Matrix approach provides.

	Chennai's long term water provision
	The Monsoon has changed course. Instead of driving north and bumping back form the Himalayan, it has just crossed the Indian Subcontinent to the east. The result has been droughts in the spare areas, floods otherwise. Is this an exceptional year or the pattern from climate change? Chennai is lucky. This year Chennai suffered a terrible drought because they only have a month water reserve (0.1 km3) but the topography of India with main rivers running from central-west (Pune) to the southeast, can bring to their door all the water they need. Now Chennai is paying the m3 at 7 dollars. Ten times more than Los Angeles or Madrid (with ten-fold Chennai’s GDP). Chennai will never be able to join developed countries with droughts that will make industrial production impossible. Chennai will not drink… nor eat. The problem is that Chennai does not have the reservoirs necessary to stock the water they need (3 km3) to address consumption (domestic and industrial) during prolonged droughts. It has to multiply it storage capacity by 30. This cannot be done on the ponds in the plain. It has to be done by reservoirs in the plateau border. Quite simple. Developed metropolises have done so for more than a century. Time for India. The analysis addresses these needs, figures, and solutions. Chennai knows. It has been discussed for a decade at least. Words are not enough. Deeds are necessary.

	Hyderabad mislead growth
	Hyderabad is growing very fast both in economic terms (ICT groundbreaking industry of India) as well as in urban expansion (8.47% annual). That growth is being directed in a radial form, complemented with orbital tight. This approach only increases the dependence of the metropolis for the center and promotes congestion and increasing land prices reducing in the long term the competitiveness of Hyderabad. Local Authorities mandataries, politicians, and civil servants have not reached the professional capacity and skills to understand that Hyderabad must make a radical structural shift into a reticular system that will provide a multiplicity of public transport served Urban Centralities with many trip alternatives among any two points of the metropolis as well as multiple location possibilities for any business, allowing demand to control the land market instead of supply. We hope wisdom will come sooner or later to Hyderabad Local Authorities, for the Metropolis survival in the long term.

	Kochi Structural Plan final propositive analysis
	Kochi has had never before a metropolitan vision. The city's expansion into conurbated neighboring administrations is seen as the metropolis. It is not. This is the first time Kochi addresses the issue by the hand of Delhi's Government in the framework of a European Union agreement program to produce propositive analyses of 12 Indian Metropolises. Kerala and Kochi feel different from the rest of India. Unique. Problems and solutions experienced elsewhere are felt away from their needs. However, Kochi’s phenomena are experienced in many other areas of the world and prove Kochi to be wrong in their isolationism. Sprawl, rural invasion, congestive layouts, water infrastructure, economic disorientation, lack of planning skills, are common to many world metropolises, not only Kochi’s. This report, synthesis of the workshop promoted by the EU, Delhi, and Kochi’s Corporation, brings about the metropolitan vision never addressed before in Kochi. It is up to Kochi’s Collective Intelligence not to take the Do-Nothing approach.

	Harnessing Kolkata metropolitan explosion
	India Challenge India is expecting 360 million people to move from rural to urban in the next 20 years. That is 50.000 every day. Thus the need to build 12.000 homes every single day for the next 20 years. Is India providing adequate land every day to accommodate these needs? Growth rates of Indian Metropolises range from 11% annual to 7% or 5%, the lowest Mumbai 3 %. 11% growth means doubling every 7 years. Pune, such is the case, has to twofold every 7 years. A challenge Government is not being able to handle. Mumbai, with its 3 % growth rate, requires to double every 23 years: a task beyond Government’s capacity. This challenge affects more than 50 metropolises in India beyond a million inhabitants. The 164 million inhabitants of these cities will become 400 million in 20 years. Building New Towns (or ‘Smart Cities’) cannot respond to those daily 50.000 figures. Actual problems have to be addressed in actual cities instead of running away into non-performing promises. A real solution is required as social inequity and social unrest is not an acceptable outcome. Inability to do so will affect India for many decades (even centuries) to come. Two examples: New Delhi and Kolkata Among the six largest Indian Metropolises we are going to focus in Delhi and Kolkata. How to cope with growth figures? How to address the issue? How to allocate uses? Where to provide land? How to build infrastructures? In both cases of New Delhi and Kolkata we can analyze and determine the metropolitan structure providing for the correct location of urban expansion, natural protection, infrastructure provision and productive allocation. - New Delhi has a four-corner-post very strong structure that can be developed to manage and provide for growth. This structure can be developed into precise urban scale implementable projects proposals. All of them within a consistent, most needed, development pattern. - Kolkata is more linear due to the river strong impact and wetlands difficulties. Reinforcing the efficient linearity and opening up transversal potentials within an existing mass transit system might be the strongest solution. This approach can be developed for other metropolitan explosive areas in India. It’s up to Government to show its leadership capacity. Building New Towns (or ‘Smart Cities’) cannot respond to those daily 50.000 figures. Actual problems have to be addressed in actual cities instead of running away into non-performing promises.

	Mumbai Metropolitan Management Strategy
	This 5-points analysis is followed by a consecutive 4-point proposal development. Prioritization leads to immediate action to address Mumbai urgent 25-years growth challenges.

	New Delhi D4D Metro Matrix Tic Tac Toe
	India is addressing the largest world urban explosion. Out of the 2 billion new rural emigrants around the world in the next 20 years, 360 million will be Indian. That is a rate of 50.000 every day for the next 20 years. - How to cope with this? Not by building New Towns (or ‘Smart Cities’). You should address your actual problems instead of declaring yourself incompetent and offering a New Town heaven instead. - How to address the issue? India has 31 metropolises over 1.5 million inhabitants. These are the ones which, growing fast, confront huge problems proportional to their size. Some of them are growing at 11% rates, most around 5% and 4%. We must understand though that 5% annual growth means 100% in 14 years. Means you are doubling tour size in 14 years. Having to build in 14 years what you had build during millennia. - How to allocate uses? Where to provide land? How to build infrastructures? As we have seen with the simplicity of New Delhi structure and needs Metro Matrix provides the response as it has done for many metropolises elsewhere. Applied to the Nation’s capital, New Delhi, as a token of its efficiency, you can analyze the metropolitan structure of the urban expansion and provide for the correct location of urban expansion, natural protection, infrastructure provision and productive allocation. The Metro-Matrix-token presented, in which New Delhi has a four-corner-post basic structure easy to manage and provide for, should be developed into precise proposals, as should/could be so for the other metropolitan explosive areas in India. It’s up to Government to show its leadership capacity.

	Odisha Metropolis, the Silicon Delta
	Bhubaneswar is an emerging metropolis. Still just 950.000 inhabitants. She is the queen of Odisha’s chess game. The former historical capital was Cuttack, but by 1948 the head of Odisha State was moved to this new location. Cuttack remains the King. 20 km. apart they can/should conform and integrated unity of a superior level. Cuttack is 600.000 and the other integrated urban centers (Puri 200.000, etc.) can amount to almost another 3 million altogether. GDP would be boosted by 15% The metropolitan axis runs parallel o the coast in the line that goes form Kolkata to Hyderabad and Chennai. Bhubaneswar is the location of the Kalinga Battle (262 BC) that transformed the ethical values of Ashoka, and thus of India and the western world. In this new message, hold in Jagannath Temple of Puri, drunk Christian future faith. The train line is there. Only 4 services per day between the two cities. The frequency has to be brought up at least to 2 trains per hour. The two cities are 320 km. apart. 6 intermodal stations can be located, 3 km apart from one each other. Urban centralities with 30.000 inhabitants each around those stations. That will amount to 200.000 inhabitants. 20 years of the actual growth needs of Bhubaneswar. The new necessary highway to Hyderabad and Kolkata, east of the metropolis, would support the ICT development fostered by the actual strategic vision of Bhubaneswar. A freight airport is compatible to the north of the metropolis complementing the actual one to the south of Bhubaneswar. Exact location, attending the hydrographic characteristics of a flood plain and climate change previsions would feed the urban settlement and the urban design policy and implementation

	Pune, please, do not spill the wine
	Pune is one of the fastest growing metropolises in the world, if not the most, with rates on the range of 10% annual. Pune is being able to house all the overspill of Mumbai. The challenge is immense. As a city of knowledge, Pune can develop research and production of science-related products with high added value that would be internationally shipped through planes, not ships. With these two features in mind and understanding the peculiar location of Pune as the crossroad, the gateway to Hyderabad and Bangalore, Pune must understand its topographical structure to allocate and service land for 3.5 million people in the next 20 years. Pune has to frame its growth into an Urban Centralities (TOD) concept policy and built both to the northern industrial territory, by the Science City Corridor and the Airport, as well as the Eastern territory for housing and tertiary sector service provision. Pune, please do not spill all over your growth. Serve your wine on glasses. Let’s drink to the future of Pune!

	On the footsteps of Krishna: Surat, Gujarat
	Surat Metropolis, with 4.5 million inhabitants, is in the Mumbai-Delhi Industrial Corridor. It is the intermediate city between Ahmedabad and Mumbai: a highly strategic location. Surat has already benefited from National Highway (NH-8) investments and historic rail tracks assets. The Ukai Dam and the regulation of Tapi River flow provides as well for an important agricultural potential. Airport facilities, well located, can be expanded to provide the final strategic platform. Surat has a potential compatible with the inherited metropolitan structure. The north-south coast line and the east-west Tapi River have defined a strong reticular structure. The train tracks follow the reticula and the NH-8 Mumbai-Delhi Highway reinforces the north-south main directionality. Location of main economic (secondary and tertiary) economic centers automatically derives from the intersection of the main Gray Infrastructure Network. The Tapi and its agricultural plain provide for the backbone of the Green Infrastructure network. Surat, as one of the Capitals of Krishna’s Kingdom can follow the footsteps of the Gita on the understanding and management of its metropolitan future.

	Ahmedabad Metropolitan Brainshop
	The 5-day Metropolitan Lab on Gujarat’s Sustainable Urbanisation, was launched on March 6th and is applying a new methodology focusing on the integration of metropolitan policies and the consensus of the key metropolitan institutions. It builds on the collaboration of theEuropean Union (EU), UN-Habitat, and several universities. The objective of the Lab, which is based on hands-on projects and teamwork, is to explore in an interactive and comprehensive manner the challenges and opportunities for sustainable urban development in Gujarat with a focus in the Ahmedabad region. A diverse group of participants from AMC, AUDA, MEGA, CEPT, GIFT and other organisations are working in teams, in close cooperation with Mr. P. Ortiz, International Metropolitan Management Expert and a team of specialists, to comprehensively assess the implementation of new projects, in the fields of transportation, environment, housing, land use, etc.

	European Union and India Agreement institutionalizing Brainshops
	Page 5: "Activities to further develop the pilot Metropolitan Labs, which have been tested in Mumbai and Ahmedabad, with a view to develop a specific curriculum and deliver these Labs in key cities across India to foster good governance and develop urban projects as well as, more generally, activities that promote sustainable human settlement planning and management"

	Maharashtra Brainshop
	Metropolitan Lab on Maharashtra’s Sustainable Urbanisation, 19-24 September 2016. General Information The objective of the Lab, which will be a common hands-on project of all the participants, is to explore in an interactive and comprehensive manner the challenges and opportunities for sustainable urban development in Maharashtra, with a focus on the metropolitan region. The Lab is looking for an integrated territorial vision within which relevant spearheading projects could be identified. This initiative is launched within the framework of the EU-India Mumbai Partnership and is part of the Preparation of an EU-India Sustainable Urbanisation Partnership project of the European Union. The project is implemented by Suez, Acciona and Mumbai First in order to contribute in finding solutions for Mumbai’s urbanisation challenges. Lab Procedures: o Hands-on project of all the participants. o Conceptual discussion on the strategic future of MMR/Mumbai Metropolis in a global context. o Selection of strategic projects to analyse the procedures and facilitate their implementation. o Presentations/discussions about key economic, governance, planning, social, environment, infrastructure, etc. issues. o Creation of 4-6 interdisciplinary teams that will work on specific themes that could be developed into a project. o Policy analysis of what is done and what could be done. Number of participants: 20-30 professionals with a planning, engineering, economics, administrative and other backgrounds from various organisations including MCGM, MMRDA, CIDCO, MbPT, NGOs, advisors, etc. Coordinator: Mr. Pedro Ortiz, International Metropolitan Management Expert. Venue address: Board Room, 4th Floor, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA),

	Inventing Metro-Delhi
	Delhi in 2030 is going to be the largest world metropolis. It will reach the 43 million population figure overcoming Tokyo. Is it prepared to address the challenge of metropolitan management? Actual Delhi problems will multiply. 3 million dwellings are required. Cars are going to multiply by 8-fold. If Delhi is not able to address them in the right way instead of leading the world, it can become a nightmare and a burden for India. The way forward is to understand the structure of metropolitan Delhi and to apply metropolitan management techniques to Metro-Delhi. This paper, presented at “Re-inventing Delhi” Conference opening speech approaches this challenge.

	Ahmedabad Brainshop Transport

	(Work in Progress) Chennai Thesis Polimi
	Ravali Sathiwada and Sravya Luthikurthi, two brilliant students from Milano Politecnico Architecture MSc. Lab. are studying the Chennai Metropolitan Expansion. Here are her findings. Work is in progress. This is just a draft, but it is worth sharing to stimulate dialogue and discussion with the Chennai School of Architecture, both students and professors. They are welcome to contact Ravali and Sravya, as well as their Professor Antonella Contin.

	2013-2040 India Metropolitan Challenge
	India is expecting 360 million people to move from rural to urban in the next 20 years. That is 50.000 every day and thus the need to accommodate and build 12.000 homes every single day for the next 20 years. Is India doing so? What we are seeing is probably 12.000 new slums every day. If anyone doubts about those figures look individually to the growth rates of Indian Metropolises: They range from 11% annual to 7%, 5% and the lowest Mumbai 3 %. 11% growth means doubling every 7 years. Pune, such is the case, has to build a new Pune every 7 years. A task the Government is obviously not able to handle. At the lower scale Mumbai, with its 3 % growth rate, requires to be expanded again and again every 23 years; a task beyond the capacity scope of the Government. And this is a problem that affects more than 50 metropolises in India beyond a million inhabitants: 164 million people in total that will become 400 million in 20 years. A solution is required if social inequity and social unrest is not an acceptable outcome. And the results of it will affect India for many decades (even centuries) to come, as the “vertical” slums of the Industrial Revolution still affect European cities 200 years later. We want to provide solutions to it. Have a look to “The Art of Shaping the Metropolis” (McGraw Hill, 2013) and you will see the answer.

	Kochi Environment Final Report

	East Kolkata wetlands planning within the Metro-Matrix approach
	East Kolkata Wetland Inventive Ecosystem approach towards resilient urbanism Urbanization though has brought prosperity in the fast-developing nations but it is one of the sole reasons for majorly all problems caused due to negligence towards environments and unsustainable practices. This research work is an approach to challenge the evolving patterns of Indian desakota through hybrid design by recombining urban & rural and metro fitting in the emerging mega-urban region and managing urban-rural linkage. We studied the traditional Indian desakota pattern, where the water is closely linked to the everyday lives of the people and thus it has been an important tool in the metropolitan settlements patterns design. In Kolkata the mutual relationship existing between the city and suburbs is at a stake and of the most is its water body, the ponds and the wetlands, which play a crucial role in maintaining the temperature, sewage treatment, drainage etc. Also risking the traditional cultural knowledge system. Improving the water system (Kestopur Canal and Bangjola Canal) the strategy is not thinking about only a single point project but according to the Metro Matrix tool, the whole metropolitan region is now comprehended.

	Prof. R. Jha on Mumbai's Governance Component

	Re-Inventing Delhi Conference Brochure
	India’s ‘first city’ is slated to become the world’s most populated city within the coming decade, and it is expected to overtake Tokyo by 2027. In 2021 the next Master Plan for Delhi for a perspective period of 20 years (MPD 2041) will come into force. This is an opportune moment to re-evaluate the present planning paradigms and potentially re-invent the way we think about the future of this city. Strategic thinking and application of cutting-edge ideas and technologies will be required for realizing Delhi’s potential as an economic and cultural powerhouse, as well as for turning around economic stagnation, physical degradation and stressed resources.

	Mumbai Metropolitan Challenge, work in progress
	Mumbai is growing. Not in population, only 25% in the next 20 years, but it is growing. Due to the sheer size of Metropolitan Mumbai (23 million inhabitants) any absolute figure is substantial. Has to be dealt correctly. Mumbai explosion is in other metropolitan key elements. Car ownership is likely to grow from 2 million to 20 million units. Air traffic will grow from actual 35 million passengers per year to 150 million. Housing requirements from actual 5 million, in 4 member families, to 10 million in 2.4 member families; that is 200.000 new dwellings every year for 800.000 people. Mumbai has been doing relatively well. Navi Mumbai in 50 years, since 1966, has replicated the linear peninsula structure of urban Mumbai across the bay: 10 new townships of 100.000 inhabitants, a total of 1 million. Now they need to do that almost every year; to be more precise 4 New Towns of 50.000 dwellings every year. A Metropolitan/Regional is on the way. We cannot comment as it has not been shared with the population and the document is not public. We are willing to believe that these issues have been addressed correctly. The operative body to implement territorial development is CIDCO, the one that developed Navi Mumbai these last 50 years. The New Challenge is different. Procedural mechanisms will be different, as landowners will have management initiatives. The development approach will account for existing townships and will not have the New Town approach. The risk is a metastatic urban sprawl with commercial ribbon development strips in the American style: unsustainable and inefficient. Mumbai, India, has one of the richest urban cultures in the world. The elements are there, embodied in the actual townships. It is just necessary to read them and to produce a multi-scalar system that will articulate the metropolitan scale and the local one in fractal dialogue. This is the first attempt to approach the structural elements of that dialogue. Much work still to be done. This is just work in progress.

	Ahmedabad Brainshop HST Centrality

	The New Metropolitan Centrality of AMR
	Understanding the Centrality of AMR. The Ahmedabad Metropolitan Region shows a formal reticular structure with grids running from north to south running parallel to the Sabaramati river axis. The city is growing in the western and southern direction (i.e. on the west side of the river) and all the major new residential and commercial developments have come up in this region between the 132 feet ring road, the S.P. Ring road and beyond. On the other hand the Gandhinagar city (administrative capital) and the new large scale commercial developments like GIFT city has been planned on the north eastern part of the city. The existing railway station and international airport are somewhere in the central part of the larger AMR.

	Chennai, Ekistics of a Conscious Metropolis
	MSLab, Milano Politecnico Ravali Sathiwada, Sravya Luthikurthi, Sandy Kim, Pedro B. Ortiz Due to rapid urbanization and human interference the last remaining marshland of Chennai city, the Pallikaranai marshland, a unique ecosystem of its kind, has been reduced to one-third of its original extent. The marsh has been reduced and fragmented, due to the construction of institutes, the Perungudi dump-yard and Sewage treatment plant, IT corridors, residential complexes, etc. Pallikarnai Marshland is one of the most important wetlands in India. It is natural and unique in its hydrology. It is home to a large number of species of plants and animals. It is, however, under various kinds of threats; threats that are largely due to the rapidly changing surrounding urban landscape of Chennai. The threats are also due to lack of awareness on the ecological value of natural wetlands. The goal of the project is to analyze the metropolitan complexity using metropolitan cartography method and deliver a sensible wetland project that can stand as an example first of its kind in India and providing a platform to exchange knowledge which can be used at other sponge sites across the Chennai metropolitan area and across the nation. The project would also focus on promoting sustainable growth in relation to climate change and economic conditions of the metropolitan region at a global scale. Metropolitan Cartography _ TELLme EU Project

	Kochi Transport Final Report

	Prof. Abhay Pethe on Mumbai's Economic Component

	Mumbai criss-cross
	India is composed by a series of parallel lines that cross the pyramidal shaped subcontinent from East to West, and a vertical north/south backbone in the center with a set of parallel lines to the coasts. This pattern is more definite in the west coast. Mumbai metropolitan weight distorts the homogenous space patterns and introduces two national diagonals: One in the direction of Nashik and New Delhi, the other in the direction of Pune and Hyderabad. Mumbai bay (which makes of Mumbai’s success as a strategic port) breaks the continuity of the coast structural line and creates an inland centrality for the crossing of the national scale diagonals. Mumbai built up area is 450 sq. km. Annual growth is 3.05%. That is 14 sq. km: An Area that would cover the entire historical peninsula. To avoid slum generation and serve its population needs Mumbai has to extend its serviced land every year by 14 sq. km. Otherwise the Administration in charge should be accountable for the consequences. Annual needs of Land for Mumbai are 100% in 23 years. That is 14 sq. km. per year. New land has to be allocated and serviced in metro-matrix integrated location with no disruption to environmental assets, accessible to labor markets for social lower incomes and economically efficient for global competitive locations. Metro Matrix can provide location attending for these 3 aspects. Zooming down into the urban structure we detect two main centralities (Mumbai and Thane) with a third emerging one (Panvel) due to the accessibility provided by the Sion-Panvel three bay bridges. Extensive rail network provides the basis for a metropolitan TOD system of Metro-Matrix development provision

	Ahmedabad Brainshop Environment

	Kochi Housing Final Report

	Mr. Ramana Mumbai's Transport Component

	Bhubaneswar Odisha's: Metropolis
	Odisha, from marginal location to world metropolis: Longer, Wider, Larger Bhubaneswar is a New Town Developed since 1948 as the old town of Cuttack was in a constrained location that would not allow for much expansion. The solution is not to ‘Relocate’ but to ‘integrate’. A metropolis is not an ever-growing conurbation that invades progressively al the land available around until it becomes an unmanageable collapse metastasis with diminishing returns. A Metropolis is ‘a set of urban units that share daily substantial commuting’. Bhubaneswar Metropolis is not only Bhubaneswar’s. It is as well Cuttack’s and even Puri’s. I think we must call it Odisha’s Metropolis as it is the urban system of Odisha’s State. Odisha’s State is in a difficult position and needs to work out its urban system to find competitiveness it cannot expect from its natural geopolitical position. Away from the economic and political axis of Delhi/Mumbai, within a low-income area of India. In the forgotten area that neither belongs to the Ganges Corridor or to the Southern Tamil-Nadu one of Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Chennai. It is essential for Odisha to find its own path to development. It cannot relly on others. That is why this metropolitan proposal, based in 40 years of accumulated knowledge and experience over more than 130 metropolises around the world, shouldn’t be just welcomed but celebrated? I hope it will help. It all dependents on the Collective Intelligence of Odisha’s elites.

	Ahmedabad Brainshop Housing

	Guwahati Moebius Infinitum
	Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 brought about some strange results. Partition on religious grounds created some unreasonable territorial phenomena. First of all was the creation of a country with two parts 4.000 km away: East and West Pakistan. It could not stand. It didn’t. Bangladesh departed in 1971. Second, the cornering of India’s province of Assam beyond Bangladesh connected to India’s mainland only by a narrow umbilical cord squeezed between Bangladesh and Bhutan. The urban strategy of Assam, in addition to reinforce the narrow corridor that links to India and increase the economic liaisons to natural Dhaka, has to be the development of a strong urban centers interactive structure. Inherited rail system helps. Both river sides of the Brahmaputra are provided by rail tracks. Three connections across the river (Tezpur to be completed) allow for a continuous loop with Guwahati, the capital, in the center. A Moebius Infinitum link would reinforce the development of a complementary urban system integrating both side of the Brahmaputra into a single productive system.

	Kochi Productive Activities Final Report

	Uma Adusumilli Mumbai's Planning Component

	Ahmedabad Brainshop Productive Activities

	Kochi Social Facilities Final Report

	Mr. V. Patil on Mumbai's Productive Activities Sector

	More than technology, India's Smart Cities need Collective Intelligence for Transformation

	Mrs. S. Mahajan on Mumbai's Housing Sector

	NEW METROPOLITAN DIMENSION: Smart or Intelligent?
	Pedro B. Ortiz states our urban management skills need to be honed to meet the challenges of the new metropolitan dimension. The metropolitan paradigm must be introduced as soon as possible. The ones who are doing it right will be ahead of the others.

	Mr. Ortiz: How to build a metropolitan vision for Ahmedabab.

	Mr. Ortiz: How to make the best out of Ahmedabad

	160920 Mr. Sree Kumar Kumaraswamy on Mumbai’s Transport Sector.

	Hyderabad: metro won't work unless integrated with other Public Transport

	Pedro B. Ortiz: The Metropolitan Genoma

	Smart Cities are successful only when you have the intelligence in place
	Special Focus: Pedro B Ortiz is a senior consultant for the World Bank in New York who advises various governments and private firms. Ortiz, a former deputy mayor of the Spanish capital Madrid, has also earned international repute as a Metropolitan Planner and his recently published book, “The Art of Shaping the Metropolis,” establishes policies that address the phenomenon of the explosive growth that’s taking place in 600 metropolises around the world. In an exclusive interview to SHRIKANT RAO from New York, Ortiz dilated on the challenges of building smart cities in a country like India.

	Mr. Karamanos: Strategic approach to decision making and Brainshop deliverables

	Prof. Shivanand Collective Mobility

	Pedro B. Ortiz Project Selection and Deliverables

	Mr. Thakker: Ahmedabad Urban Planning

	Prof Shivanand Planning BRT System

	Integrated Mega-Kochi 2050
	After an extenuating week of intensive work from the International Metropolitan Fellows, under the guidance of highly qualified Kochi professionals, an integrated vision has been produced for the Metropolitan dimension of Kochi in the long term, up to 2050. The five structural sectors (Environment, Transport, Housing, Social Facilities, Productive Activities) have been internally integrated, cross integrated with the other sectors and scale integrated in a comprehensive dialogue from the 1/50.000 metropolitan scale to the 1/500 Urban Design one. Another dimension is required, the Governance and the Financial one. However, as not the object of the Metropolitan Brainshop this time, it is pointed out in this final presentation to foster the WebLab following local discussion and spark the prospect of a necessary comprehensive Metropolitan Plan for Kochi of which, this workshop is only the inception appetizer.

	Mr. Pathak: Ahmedabad necessary metropolitan dimension

	Prof Ashwani Kumar Industrial Development

	Kochi Environment Integrated proposal
	Kochi Metropolitan Region (KMR) is wedged between the Indian Ocean and the Western Ghats in the State of Kerala. KMR coastal line extends to 70 kms, KMR is divided into three topographically distinct regions: the eastern highlands, the central midlands and the western lowlands. Eastern KMR comprises of mountains and valleys of the Western Ghats’. Western coastal belt and midlands is relatively flat, with a network of canals, lakes, estuaries and rivers frequently affected by flooding. Environmental degradation caused by rapid urbanization has lead to loss of biodiversity & farmlands causing soil erosion, salinity intrusion, decrease in forest cover, disappearance of inland waterbodies. Few projects have been proposed to reduce negative impact on the environment, making it sustainable and resilient.

	Prof. Iyer Ahmedabad Water provision

	Kochi Transport Integrated Proposal
	- The peculiar geographic location of Kochi has made the city a prominent port and a city of strategic importance since many centuries. - The Metropolitan of Kochi, however, needs to be serviced by efficient transport interventions (both local and international) for it to remain functioning as a city of importance. - The existing metropolitan transport systems (Passenger rail) need to be upgraded to rapid and efficient transport and to service greater area than what it does now. - The economic centers as of now are concentrated in the region, thus causing chaos. The economic centers need to be more decentralized and its location be made more reachable and transit serviced. - The current international trade facilities (port and airport) are in need of expansion taking into consideration the increased economic activity projected for the region.

	Prof Patel Ahmedabad metropolitan housing

	Kochi Housing Integrated Proposal
	Kochi metropolis is going to grow by 2 million population in 30 years up to 6.4 million in 2050. The family size is going to be reduced as result of the urbanization social adaptation phenomena it will move from the original 2001 5.5 members per family, to the actual 4.5, twenty years later, to a 3.4 in 2051. The 6.4 million population will require 2.1 million dwellings in 2050, against the actual 0.8 million stock. 1.3 million new dwellings. The location of these dwellings should be prioritized around the Mass Public Transit System highest rank mode intermodal stations. Commuter Rail in the case of a Metropolis.

	Prof. Ortiz Strategic Metropolitan Acupuncture Projects

	Kochi Productive Activities integrated proposal
	- The key to poverty reduction is accelerated economic growth and employment generation. - The economy of Kochi can be classified as a business economy with emphasis on the service sector. - Integrated Economic Hub is the combination of economic activities, that include manufacturing, logistics, commercial. - IEHs focuses on enabling cargo generation and are gateways to/from the hinterland. - Areas with many geographic advantages and follows the hierarchical development of allied economic developments. - Projects submitted are in accordance with economic evolution of Kochi to be an international Services Hub. - Aim of the these projects are to ensure that , Kochi with its IT and allied sectors to follow a international Services strategy

	Kochi Social Facilities integrated proposal
	Kochi Metropolitan Region is rich in social sector in terms of superior educational and medical facilities. The aim of this project is to understand the significance of the region in social sector. Additionally by 2050 when the scale of urbanization and migration will be at it’s peak, it is important to understand how the present social facilities are serving the region. A balanced distribution of these facilities is important for sustainable community development. Since, the region specializes in Ayurvedic specialized hospitals and educational institutes hence analysis of the same is required.

	Pedro B. Ortiz Physical-Metro Integration

	Ahmedabad Metropolitan Commuter Rail Project

	Mr Gupta Ahmedabad Metro

	Mega Kochi 2050
	Kochi is the main Kerala Metropolis. Located in the most important maritime trade route in the world is not taking advantage enough f the potential of this location. However, as goods become more sophisticated and added value prone, they tend to take the plane, not the boat. Kochi Airport with 9 million passengers is requiring a second runaway, and probably a second freight airport. The actual freight load of the airport is 72.000 tons and decreasing. It is extremely low for what it should be, in the range of 300.000 tons, and growing. This economic potential should be coupled with the rapid population growth of Kochi Metropolis due to two phenomena: Interstate migration and rural to urban migration. Kochi Metropolis is now 3.2 million and is likely to be 6.4 at least, if not 7.7 million in 2050. The Kerala Govt. must provide a solid, sustainable, equitable, resilient and competitive framework for this growth. Mass public transport should be the backbone of the location of the 1.7 million needed new dwellings and for daily trips to the job centers. Urban Centralities at the Commuter Train Intermodal stations of at least 14.000 dwellings must be created. These will be the priority location as well for the required Social Facilities metropolitan system, and for the main Tertiary Sector and Administrative destinations. The actual pattern of environmental invasion and destruction should be prevented by a continuous environmental protected system that will impede the mergence of the actual sprawling uncontrolled residential expansion. Economy, Sociology, Environment, Transport and Housing will find in this comprehensive vision for 2050 ground for a solid Kochi and Kerala development, spearheading India to join the global developed countries.

	Pedro B. Ortiz on Governance and Metro-Metrics

	Pedro B. Ortiz on Urban scale and scramble eggs

	Pedro B.Ortiz Housing Policy criteria

	Mr Phadke New Towns Governance

	Kochi Metropolis Environment: DR.SUNNY GEORGE

	Prof. Vishal Dubey on HYDERABAD Metropolitan Plan

	S. Loose UN-Habitat on Metropolitan Development

	Ahmedabad interscalarity

	Ms. Uma Adusumilli MMRDA Mumbai

	Kochi Metropolis Transport Dr. GP Hari

	Kochi Metropolis Housing Dr. Raji R.

	Environment Team Presentation
	Team Aditi Shidhore (MMRDA); Ravinder Dhiman (IITB); Aniket Bhatkhnade (University of Mumbai); Leena Vachasiddha (CSIR-NEERI); Sagar Saraf (MBPT); Surabhi Mehrotra (IITB)

	Environment Team Report
	Team Aditi Shidhore (MMRDA); Ravinder Dhiman (IITB); Aniket Bhatkhnade (University of Mumbai); Leena Vachasiddha (CSIR-NEERI); Sagar Saraf (MBPT); Surabhi Mehrotra (IITB)

	Housing Team Presentation
	Team M. S. Kubal | MCGM S.B. Lagwankar |MbPT Swati Deore Wagh| MIDC Kaushal Maru| MMRDA Rashmi Sharma | MU

	Housing Team Report
	Team M. S. Kubal | MCGM S.B. Lagwankar |MbPT Swati Deore Wagh| MIDC Kaushal Maru| MMRDA Rashmi Sharma | MU

	Land Use Team Presentation
	Team Owais A. Momin | MIDC M. Sivashanmugam | CMDA Sunil Bhat | MCGM Venkata Sai Krishna | IITB Prathima Manohar | TUV

	Land Use Team Report
	Team Owais A. Momin | MIDCM, Sivashanmugam | CMDA Sunil Bhat | MCGM Venkata Sai Krishna | IITB Prathima Manohar | TUV

	Productive Activities Team Presentation
	Team: Bhakti Chitale, MMRDA Ashok Rupwate, MCGM Devendra Mokal, CIDCO Ashutosh Pachpute, MIDC Sulakshana Mahajan, MTSU

	Productive Activities Team Report
	Team: Bhakti Chitale, MMRDA Ashok Rupwate, MCGM Devendra Mokal, CIDCO Ashutosh Pachpute, MIDC Sulakshana Mahajan, MTSU

	Transport Team presentation
	Team: Harshal Baviskar @ MMRDA Manoj Jeurkar @ MCGM Nimisha Golatkar @ CIDCO Shubhangi Kale @ CIDCO Surbhi Mehrotra @ IIT.B

	Transport Team report
	Team: Harshal Baviskar @ MMRDA Manoj Jeurkar @ MCGM Nimisha Golatkar @ CIDCO Shubhangi Kale @ CIDCO Surbhi Mehrotra @ IIT.B

	Kochi Metropolis Productive Activities Dr. Rajesh Nair

	Synthesis of Team proposals. Work in Progress

	Kochi Metropolis Social Facilities Dr. Nirmala Padmanabhan

	Piero Remitti European Urban Policy in India