(Urban development is now…) The $90-billion Delhi Mumbai
Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project is now underway. In his
budget speech, finance minister P Chidambaram announced that
this project will soon build seven new cities including two
smart cities, one at Dholera in Gujarat and the other at
ShendraBidkin in Maharashtra. Two additional corridors are being
planned, one between Bangalore and Chennai and the other between
Bangalore and Mumbai. India has not ever had such a massive
building of new urban areas, the last major project being
Chandigarh in 1950. In the next few decades, these new cities
along the three corridors have the potential to change the
country in a fundamental way. Urban development is now a serious
academic discipline, with many fascinating ideas being explored
to make our cities sustainable as well as great places to live.
Being developed are new ways of urban transport, energy
generation and distribution, building design, healthcare and
other emergency services, waste management and so o