Anchoring sustainable urbanism as future of cities

Abstract

The study aims to understand the concept of Sustainable Urbanism and its scope in Indian city planning. Study focuses various objectives such as impact of urbanization at global and national level, concepts of livability and sustainability globally, planning principles considered by urban planners to achieve these in cities, and critically analyzing them with current trend of Urban Planning Policy-making in India. This paper broadly covers the research questions and explains what is meant by sustainable urbanism, what sustainability in terms of City planning is and what different parameters could be to achieve sustainability at city level.