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The Future of Cities
Cities of the Future
Cities prosper and decay
Abundance Drought
Peace War
Prosperity Bankruptcy + migration
Global Urbanisation
Poor People
Ground Water Depletion
Available Water
Information Overload for policies to densify and build mega-cities
Not enough information on social and
environmental consequences of mega-
cities
It took 100 years to change our lives permanently
How long will global warming take?
THE UNSUSTAINABLE GROWTH OF DELHI
THE WATER IMPERATIVE
Delhi Water Footprint
The 19th Century city accumulated Wealth,
Poverty and Ecological damage.
The Future city could distribute Empowerment
and Sustainability to Asia.
WORK IN PROGRESS ON A SOLUTION
NATURAL CITIES
YAMUNA FLOODPLAINS
THE ONLY AVAILABLE SOURCE OF WATER
each year for millions of years sand has deposited making an aquifers 3 km wide and 40 - 100 meters deep.
• Up to 40% of the floodplain aquifer is water by volume.
The Floodplain is never waterless.
EXPLANATORY MODEL OF THE NATURAL CITY
IRRIGATION CHANNEL
AGRICULTURE
COMMUNITY
SPACE
AVENUE
SOME NATURAL CITIESIN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS
• 6,40,000 Villages sustainable & unsustainable
• 8,000 Towns• Unsustainable
• 60% Living in Poverty
• It could have 6,00,000
sustainable villages
• 1,00,000 sustainable
towns
• 100% living with
empowerment
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