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