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THEME PAPER

setbacks (Fig. 7); Fig 7: Consolidated public green, which is universally accessible, is more
functional rather than strips of setbacks.
• Connect pedestrian
spaces with tree arcades,
awnings, or canopies;

• Provide green
infrastructure (swale
or infiltration areas) in
open areas and along the
roads;
• Plan shelters at 5-minute
walk at distances of 100–
150 meters;
• Design transit priority
areas and wide sidewalks
to provide barrier-free Source: IRSDC (2021) Codes for Commercial Development on Railway
areas for pedestrians; Land, New Delhi
and
communities on a platform for services to enhance users
• Reduce wind speed e-service delivery. The system experience, such as high-
by planting shading, is mobile and internet based speed communication and
deciduous trees.
and is dynamically scalable. data management, carbon-
It is necessary to digitise all It helps in technology emission accounting and
the parking spaces includ- enabled management of land, performance objectives.
ing under stilts, multi-level infrastructure, planning and This implies integration of
structures, on roofs and un- development for better co- green concepts with smart,
derground spaces. Seamless ordination, cost and time ICT based technology to
multimodal public transport management. optimise their performance,
system would work better by monitoring and maintenance.
adoption of single ticketing Smart chips can be embedded
and restructuring of land uses almost in every urban service, CONCLUSION
by transit-oriented develop- such as smart street poles, India’s G20 Presidency offers
ment. Digital parking meters which collect air pollution an opportunity to realise
tell mobile phone when a data, provide internet, the theme of Vasundhaiva
space opens, reducing traffic CCTV with the facility of an Kutumbakam- One Earth,
caused by drivers trolling for emergency call. With digital One Family, One Future and
parking. chips getting embedded make the human settlements

AN INTELLIGENT in a city’s epidermal and inclusive, resilient and
COMMUNITY exoskeletal level and its sustainable. This needs
connective
tissues,
cities
working out innovative and
NETWORK are increasingly getting comprehensive measures
An intelligent geo-portal digitally scripted and coded. to improve the built
can bring together various Information technology environment, livelihoods,
line departments and can be used to provide urban governance and

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