How Smart is a Smart City?

Published By: Down to Earth | Published Date: July, 27 , 2014

Smart is as smart does. The NDA government’s proposal to build 100 “smart” cities will work only if it can reinvent the very idea of urban growth in a country like India. Smart thinking will require the government to not only copy the model cities of the already developed Western world, but also find a new measure of liveability that will work for Indian situation, where the cost of growth is unaffordable for most.

Author(s): Sunita Narain | Posted on: Aug 21, 2014 | Views(656)


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