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During the past decades, the concept of sustainable development has established itself as a new requirement for urban and metropolitan level public action, which involves the design and practice of urban and land-use planning. Urban design concerns the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities, and in particular the shaping and uses of urban public space. So let us discuss about the innovative waste management Concepts, retrofitting the existing city, smart growth and new urbanism, transformation of professional practices and other tools used for assessing urban sustainable development policies.
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Waste management
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Follow a good systematic approach like TERI GRIHA or LEED
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Eajaz Buzruk
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"Use of Eco-Cement"
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we can use he new erm "Ecp-Cement" instead of regular cement to reduce cuting of boxite rocks and wearing of earth
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KALIYAMOORTHY
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"A few more"
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A few more are:- A Community based Bio-gas production center in each location, Gas so produced can be distributed to them equally. Food, Vegetables, Fruits wastes can be used for conversion.Individual are to deposit. Community based Solar...
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gonuguntla kondala rao
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"Waste management"
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I agree with the views expressed. I think we have to go to the fundamentals of SWM i.e., Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover. Initiatives like door-to-door collection, source segregation, localized composting of biodegradable waste, encouraging...
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Ideate: "How urban infrastructure can be eco- friendly?" deleted from your view.
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Prasad PN
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Industries are not moving out of Cities. More and more industries are coming to cities like Chennai and Hyderabad. With no infrastructure to backup the expansion, Chennai is very poor in terms of quality of drinking water. Must be the worst in...
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Reni sebastian
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"Yes"
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Yes the manufacturing industries can go outer most part of the city.
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Anjali Bhatia
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"No"
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The problem is neither with cities nor with industries. The problem is with the government. The government has neglected the "TRUE INDIA", its rural sector so much that rural industry and farmers are gaining nothing of their production and are...
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Debate: "Cities are Expanding, due to which the Industries are moving out of city? should governement permit residential properties " deleted from your view.
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Rain water harvesting facility should be made compulsory?
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Rain water harvesting facility should not be made compulsory?
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Santosh Mhatre
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"Rain water harvesting facility should be made compulsory?"
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Yes, it should be compulsory for all buildings, societies, so, that rain water will be used atleast for flushing purpose, so we can save atleast that much pure water. Also we have to encourage the purifier technologies to improve the quality of...
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vishwanath kushnarla
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"Rain water harvesting facility should not be made compulsory?"
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see if do it also its not use full the areas have this problem are the least raining places. due to less raining only we are facing problems in some areas so its not good idea. i am also from a place where we had problem of water every summer but...
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Nagpal Singh
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"Rain water harvesting facility should be made compulsory?"
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Yes, as rising water demand and reducing water resources are needed to be managed else problem could be very fetal
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Debate: "Should rain water harvesting facility should be made compulsory in the regions of water shortage in our country?" deleted from your view.
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ASR Murthy
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| 2 years ago
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Harvesting of kitchen and bathroom sewarge shoul be made compulsary in Urban Areas. Kitchen and bathroom sewarage are not as harmful/infected as Toilet sewarge. This water is available for harvesting through out the year with nil or negligible...
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Debate: "Harvesting of kitchen and bathroom sewarge shoul be made compulsary in Urban Areas." deleted from your view.
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Practising Scheduling
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Practising Planning
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Angyan P. Jagathnarayanan
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"Practising Scheduling"
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Many of the Planning engineers I have met are not following recommended practises like 14R-90 that is both for Planning and scheduling and outlines what is required from a planning engineer.
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Debate: "Are Indian Planning engineers practising Planning or Scheduling?" deleted from your view.
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Lack of demand and awareness
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Lack of will on enforcement agencies
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Khalil Qureshi
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"Lack of demand and awareness"
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I agree with Anjali due to lack of demand and awareness retrofitting seriously lags in india.
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Biranchi Narayan Acharya
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"Lack of will on enforcement agencies"
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Any change, modernisation or implementation of any policy it always depend upon effectiveness of the enforcing agencies which are government organisations. Unfortunately almost all government organisations lag behind in any advance modernisation...
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Mohammad Bakhsh
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"Lack of demand and awareness"
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The argument is won by presentation.The corporate world must come up with environmental friendly scheme.Create awareness,cost effectiveness,healthy living,and become front runner for freshner.
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Ideate: "Why retrofitting in India lags and how to tackle it?" deleted from your view.
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why the privet public partenership needed for Govt. responsibilities only and not for Govt. povers.
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Pragya Kothari
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Mr.Shrish, can you kindly elaborate your question ? It is not clear...
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Answer: "why the privet public partenership needed for Govt. responsibilities only and not for Govt. povers. " deleted from your view.
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People should be educated to perform like a good citizen
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People should be punished for every act which is non-ethical
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linda
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"People should be educated to perform like a good citizen"
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Jayant Vishnu
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"People should be punished for every act which is non-ethical"
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We Indians have a very bad habit of breaking the rules. No matter how educated a person is, he still does the same mistake. I think strict punishments should be made against persons violating the social ethics...
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Vivek R Varma
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"People should be punished for every act which is non-ethical"
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I believe that all the humans have an animal instinct and they must be punished, only then they will be disciplined.
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Debate: "Urban Ethics" deleted from your view.
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S.SUBASH
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"Yes"
| 1 year ago
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only cities have major role in bringing down global warming. unfortunately the role is not played by the cities.
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Vivek Arora
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"No"
| 2 years ago
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Atteractive price, duty free imports, Long tax holidays (holiyears rather) to make use of solar water heating systems and PV cell based lighting systems attractive is one way out. Cost of PV based electrcity generation systems are cost...
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Anjali Sinha
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"No"
| 2 years ago
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I think it is difficult for cities to reduce global warming because carbon-relevant social indicators related to land-use, energy consumption and transportation characteristics, such as urban density, passenger cars and vehicles which are the...
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Debate: "Urban development : Can Cities Reduce Global Warming? " deleted from your view.
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Sustainabilty by all agents
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Re-use existing built assets
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Rajesh Yerra
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"Sustainabilty by all agents"
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I agree with you Mr.Vaanan, but it is imperative to look into the costs of the raw materials, labour and the energy requirements, In the recent times the cost of the raw materials like cement, steel and even fly ash prices are shooting up, to...
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Anjali Sinha
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"Sustainabilty by all agents"
| 2 years ago
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I agree with you vaanan. We can attain sustainability only by efficiently utilizing all the agents that contribute for the construction like energy, fuel and recycling process. So as you said we need collective effort to attain sustainability. ...
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