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THEME PAPER
Distance measuring was one Curiosity is the mother of India. Hence the pressure of
of the main strategies up till invention, they say, but development is concentrated
COVID 19 pandemic which when planners talked about in Metropolises. The time
has monopolized public reducing work distances or to address the situation of
attention by changing the using technologies, it was our cities and its resident is
ways in which humans lived, labeled to be a utopia. During now before the pollution,
worked, and navigated the coronavirus lockdown across the sprawl, the unsatisfied
world. The urgency for social the globe, work from home residents might make our
distancing during these times became the best time to not cities into dead ones.
is against any fundamental only work but to also utilize
philosophies of urban the time that was wasted in Facts from History
planning or design, which travelling in traffic jams into The 15-minute
typically celebrate the dense improving professional skills, neighbourhood idea has been
nature of cities. quality time with families, an integral part of almost
There is an urgency to and people seem to be more every city everywhere for
manage time to achieve larger productive. The population several centuries. In fact it
distances using sustainable which feared technology, was emblematic of medieval
modes. The aim is to create also learnt to use it, and cities all over Europe, Asia
or reallocate infrastructure in understood the convenience and several other cities
such a way that all residents of it as well. Several people around the World, from the
are able to meet most of their started to work on their ancient city of Copenhagen
needs within a short walk healthy routine and what which used to have walls on
or bicycle ride from their not. So, third objective is that all sides to protect against
residences. Now, the question more people can work close the enemies, and the walls
arises as to how and where to to home or remotely, with were at a distance of about a
draw a line, are the existing the presence of smaller-scale 30 minute or 20-minute walk
benchmarks enough, or do offices, retail and hospitality, from one end to the other.
we need to adapt with the and co-working spaces. And This reminds us of several
uprising of the technological finally, we have to accept walled cities of India. Another
advancements. The purposes, that residents of every thing to distinguish is the
thus framed, can be such that neighbourhood have a right networks and the typical land
all inhabitants of every single to be able to breathe clean air, use of the city which had a
neighbourhood to have easy free of harmful air pollutants, lot of resemblance with our
access to goods and services, there must be green spaces for contemporary urban designs
particularly groceries, everyone to enjoy. such as a separate residential
fresh food and healthcare, space, industrial in one corner
which were the most basic URBAN CHALLENGES as per wind direction, taking
need observed during this The urban population of the smokes out of the city
contagion. Secondly, all India is expected to increase center, an administrative zone
neighbourhoods to have a from 377 million (2011) to with fields on the fringes to act
variety of housing types, of estimated 600 million by as buffers, market spaces to
different sizes and levels of 2031 (S.M., 2017), which have piazzas for community
affordability, to accommodate implies an increase of over festivities. We seem to have
many types of households 200 million in just 20 years. 53 lost our roots during the
and enable more people to live metropolises share the load of automobile times, and now
closer to where they work. 42.6% of urban population in everyone is moving back
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