Integrated City Making - Report Extracts
Integrated City Making is a report by
Philipp Rode,
Julie Wagner,
Richard Brown, Rit Chandra and Jayaraj Sundaresan of the
Urban Age Programme at the London
School of Economics and Political Science. In 2007, Urban Age undertook a
research programme in Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi and Bangalore followed by the
Urban
Age India Conference in Mumbai, to understand and assess how these cities are
responding to the challenges of growth, and to compare these approaches to those
adopted in other cities throughout the world.
India’s cities are at the forefront of a global shift to an
urban society. Assessing various responses to the challenges of dramatic
urban growth, Integrated City Making compares government, planning and
transport in four Indian cities to those adopted in London, New York, Berlin
and Johannesburg.
The four Indian cities have a population of 35 million people (78 million including wider metropolitan regions and Delhi’s National Capital Region), and an economy valued at $360 billion within their agglomerations.
