Challenges in Adopting Productive Landscaping Approaches in Indian Cities

Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2019 Tokyo Built Environment in an era of climate change: how can cities and buildings adapt?

生态环境科学

Rallapalli, H.^1 ; Sreepada, S.V.^2 ; Gorle, J.^3

School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada, India^1

School of Architecture, GITAM (Deemed to Be University), Visakhapatnam, India^2

CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India^3

关键词: Green infrastructure;    Indian Cities;    Landscape planning;    Productive Landscaping;    Rapid urbanizations;    Urban agricultures;    Urban environments;    Vehicular pollutants;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/294/1/012094/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/294/1/012094

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The United Nations has projected that over two-thirds of the world's population will be living in cities by 2050. With the desire to reach the goals of higher economic growth, Indian cities are facing rapid urbanization leading to high density living and decreasing green spaces threatening the living conditions of the urban areas. These conditions drastically changed in the recent past with the increase in temperatures and vehicular pollutants devoiding the natural systems in the cities. The scarcity of the natural resources such as water, fresh air and green spaces at one hand and the rapidly depleting resources at the other hand, the process of sustainable development and creating urban green infrastructure is becoming a challenging task for Indian cities. The major factors influencing the urban environment such as climate, water resources and air quality and other multi folded issues can be addressed through setting up of green infrastructure at various scales. The recent trend in the changing perspectives of landscape planning in Indian cities and addressing the loss of natural infrastructure in the cities has to be balanced by creating adaptable built environment with green infrastructure such as urban farms, urban forests and community farms in urban spaces as part of existing and evolving city fabric. The challenge is that such green infrastructure solutions are failing to find their way into practical form. The study focuses on analysing the parameters to incorporate sustainable green infrastructure models, challenges and strengths in adopting successful models into the city fabric. A study of various existing models at different scales from cities of Bangalore, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam are discussed to give insights into the adaptability aspects of the model with reference to their respective urban context.