[Urbanstudy] Fwd: CPR-CSH Urban Workshop - 'UN-Habitat’s Vision and Approach to Developing Smart Cities in India' by Kulwant Singh

Tue Aug 18 23:20:55 CDT 2015

FYI.

Its in Bangalore.

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Subject: CPR-CSH Urban Workshop - 'UN-Habitat’s Vision and Approach to
Developing Smart Cities in India' by Kulwant Singh
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CPR-CSH Urban Workshop
UN-Habitat’s Vision and Approach to Developing Smart Cities in India

Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 3:45 p.m.

Kulwant Singh

Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research
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The Government of India’s concept note on the Smart Cities promotes a low
energy path, which leads to sustainable development. Smart Urban Model is
based on principles that allow for incremental growth and modification. It
introduces key principles deducted from intensive research and broad
international experience of UN-Habitat. The principles of sustainable
development of cities are the availability of high quality streets and
public spaces, properly designed density, limited land-use specialization,
better connectivity, energy and resource efficiency, urban resilience and
practically enforceable norms and rules. The UN-Habitat has been promoting
the same in the past years, using latest principles for sustainable urban
development and new technologies to improve the quality of living. A smart
city will be a compact structure that lays emphasis on sustainable urban
development in the form of density and land use. It promotes economic
viability, livability, and environmental quality and reduces over
exploitation of natural resources.

The development of a smart city is dependent on principles that benefit the
economic agglomeration, reduce mobility demand and strengthen social
interactions. It requires a pragmatic approach to work actively towards the
development of cities using an innovative technique. The use of ICTs will
ensure the sustainable development in all dimensions.

*Kulwant Singh* (MA, PhD) is the Asia Regional Advisor of UN-Habitat since
2004. Prior to that he was Executive Director, Human Settlements Management
Institute, New Delhi for 12 years. An urban economist, he was part of the
Indian Economic Service from 1971-1992. He has published widely on the
topics of urban management and provision of urban basic services.  Some of
his earlier jointly edited works include: Integrated Urban Infrastructure
Development in Asia, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co Pvt Ltd; Urban India in
Crisis, New Age  International (P) Ltd; Financing and Pricing of Urban
Infrastructure, New Age  International (P) Ltd. His recent research work
related to “Mapping Poverty to Reach the Urban Poor” published in SCH 44-4,
December 2014 and an Issue Paper on Smart Cities for HABITAT-III.  He has
been a visiting faculty at UNESCO-IHE Delft, IHS, Rotterdam, the
Netherlands from 2004-2011. Currently he is a member of the international
jury for Dr Sarphati Sanitation Award and is the Chair Steering Committee:
2015 Asia Pacific Housing Forum 5.

This is the sixty-seventh in a series of Urban Workshops planned by the
Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi and Centre for Policy Research
(CPR). These workshops seek to provoke public discussion on issues relating
to the development of the city and try to address all its facets including
its administration, culture, economy, society and politics. For further
information, please contact: Rémi de Bercegol at remi.debercegol at gmail.com,
Partha Mukhopadhyay atpartha at cprindia.org or Marie-Hélène Zerah at
marie-helene.zerah at ird.fr

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