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Ministry of Urban Development
Government of India
Governing Urban Futures in South Asia:
Challenges and Opportunities
Banashree Banerjee
Regional Policy Dialogue on Sustainable Urbanization
in South Asia: Greening the Infrastructure Gap
New Delhi, 17-18 December, 2014
South Asian cities are transforming
GROWING
DECAYING
SHRINKING
RISING
SPRAWLING
AGGLOmeRATING
FORMING R-I-B-B-O-N-S
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BECOMING ENGINES of GROWTH
Celebrate the difference!
But ……
Are they inclusive? Is the quality of life improving?
1. How to increase the policy visibility of the SA Urban Constellation
2. How to change
the Continued Legacy of Spatial and Institutional Fragmentation
into Multi-level Governance
Delhi: Divided city
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MCD North
MCD South
MCD East
NDMC
Cantt. Board
‘Urban’
Institutions Delhi
Local Govt.
State Govt.
Central Govt.
Para statal
MCD 3
Urban development
DDA
DUAC
Delhi Jal Board
NDMC
Land and Building
Land and Development
Office.
Delhi Metro Rail
Corpn.
Cantt. Board
Transport
Surface Transport
Deli Transport
Corporation
Industry
Industry
DSIIDC
Revenue (Disaster
manage, Rural Dev.)
NDMA
BRPL
Health, Education,
PWD, Environment etc.
NCR Planning Board
BYPL
Delhi Fire Service
Delhi Police
MTNL
Delhi Pollution
Committee
Central Pollution Control
Board &EPCA
Institutional Linkages
Delhi
3. How to work with multiple stakeholders to deliver outcomes
middle and upper class citizens, the poor, trade organizations, educational institutions,
government departments, NGOs and the private sector.
4. How to replace growth by mega projects into
planned cities
Gated townships
And……..
SMART CITIES?
5. How to ensure productivity without
compromising safety, health and sustainability
SA cities: factories of the world
Rana Plaza, Savar, Dhaka
Lalita Park, Delhi
Bangladesh:
• 3.5 million workers in 4,825 garment factories produce goods for export to the global market.
• The Bangladeshi garment industry generates 80% of the country’s total export revenue.
• The wealth generated by this sector has led to few improvements in the lives of garment workers, 85% of
whom are women.
Delhi: Shahpur Jat
Sweatshops of global garment chains
Thriving in stealth and immunity from
regulations
2 out of 5 workers are children
Recycling e-waste in Samaypur,
Delhi
High incidence of respiratory and skin
diseases among workers
Toxic waste let out into open drains.
(Toxics Link, 2014)
6. How to find a meeting place between formal and informal
3 Inter-related P’s of Ludhiana
Prosperity
Pollution
Poverty &
Informality
7. How to better integrate urban - peri-urban - rural
The Peri-urban: No one’s
responsible, everyone’s welcome
Lahore
Kathmandu
New Delhi
Colombo attracts 500,000 commuters
on any working day.
Kandy has 150,000 daily commuters
but a local population of 124,000
Dhaka population is 15 million at night
19 million at daytime
Mumbai: 7.5 mill. commute daily by train from suburbs
Dhaka: 50,000 women commute daily to
garment factories from surrounding villages
Climate change forcing thousands in Bangladesh into slums of Dhaka
Climate change refugees struggle to survive in slums of Dhaka. The city faces a population explosion, with inadequate infrastructure.
VIEW 5 PHOTOS
TORONTO STAR / RAVEENA AULAKH
Taslima Masud with daughter Karima and husband Mohammed live in Korail, Dhaka's largest slum, along with as many as
40,000 others.
By: Raveena Aulakh Environment, Published on Sat Feb 16 2013
8. How to achieve low carbon urban development
Delhi:
Compact city: high rise vs low rise
Kakrola Village
Gross Residential Density: 400pph
Som Vihar Unauthorised Colony
Gross Residential Density: 400pph
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Dwarka sub-city
Gross Residential Density: 400pph
Compacting whom and how
Sahasapura resettlement: Colombo
Mumbai: MUTP relocation in PPP mode
9. How to ensure equitable access to public space
Privatised
public space
Amusement parks
Golf courses
10. How to keep cities safe without barriers
Punjab’s (Pakistan) real estate companies offer more affordable
units in their gated compounds.
llustration: jamal khurshid
How to develop
an Urban Governance agenda for SAARC