THE CHARTER OF NEW URBANISM

NEW URBANISM-19ARC701T
PROFFESSOR-Ar. ARAVIND V
SHALINI MINNA S-RA2012201010013
The Block, The Street, and The Building
19.A primary task of all urban architecture and landscape design is the physical definition of streets and public spaces
as places of shared use.

Anyone who thinks that urban squares are obsolete, or that traditional, figural spaces clearly shaped and defined by
buildings are somehow irrelevant to the economic and social forces

• Most Indian cities suffer from areas of informal growth and spatial inequalities in development between pockets of
planned development.
• Every urban sector—whether it is housing, mobility, infrastructure, or environment—faces manifold challenges.
• For example, in the peri-urban areas and census towns of Delhi, there is an uncontrolled growth of built structures,
resulting in the shrinking of open spaces and indiscriminate land-use conversion, as well as deteriorating water,
sanitation, and environmental conditions.
• Moreover, there are unauthorized colonies and slums where the work of regularization, in-situ rehabilitation, and
service provision is lagging.
• Over 30 percent of the population are designated as “encroachers” who live in unplanned areas under poor
conditions.
• Reliable, constant water supply is not available, and water-harvesting measures are inadequate.
• There is a gap of over 300 million gallons per day (MGD) in water demand and production.
• Groundwater levels in several parts of the city have declined up to 64 meters below ground due to
illegal/uncontrolled extraction.

Source: Delhi Development Authority

• The lens of the statutes that determine urban, local management, particularly those related to open space.
• Urban landscape management and urban greenspace delivery require efficient planning tools, which come
from robust statutes.
• The objectives of this paper are two-fold. The first is to describe the main policy instruments that have been
proposed and utilized in Mumbai to protect and manage open spaces across all government levels and to see
how these can be amended or improved.
• The second objective is to help policymakers and planners design more effective models to protect, augment
and maintain Mumbai’s open spaces.

Source:ORF OCCASIONAL PAPER # 241 APRIL 2020