Analytical study of green spaces and carbon footprints

Abstract

Cities are an inevitable requirement for the centuries to come. The nesting of mega structures and hi-tech modulations in transport, communication and other services would be a benchmark to achieve for the present day cities. These benchmarks could be easier to achieve in new or planned towns but it would be very challenging for the unplanned and old cities like Delhi. The mega cities are a hub where opportunities attract population and vice versa. Multiple economic activities, massive demand and resource crunch are the prominent characteristics of urbanization. Urban landscaping becomes a difficult task of juxtaposition various economic spaces with multiple cosmic sociocultural variations, in an optimum way. Cities are in fact the global centres of communication, commerce and culture. They are also significant and growing sources of energy consumption and green house gas emissions. It is the change in green spaces on one hand and energy consumption on other hand that cause change in bio-geochemical cycles and increase in pollution level, thereby impacting the climate change over years.