Search Post on this Blog

Sustainable development of cities UPSC

Sustainable development is the development of the current without compromise to one of the future generation resources. Sustainable development is the process of balancing of economy, environment, and society.
Sustainable development of cities
Sustainable development of cities

The following are the main characteristics of a sustainable city:

  • No alarming level of pollution especially in water, air, soil. 
  • High quality of life 
  • No depletion to resources such as groundwater, forest, soil productivity 
  • The overall development of the society 
  • Conservation of biodiversity, animal, plants, etc 


The following are the way to plan a city in a sustainable way: 

  • Planned land use policy in city planning.
  • Caping on migration
  • Green strip development along with road & highway and around the city.
  • Sufficient public transport
  • Usage of renewables energy
  • Decentralized planning of the city
  • Planning to self-reliance on some basic resources such as water.
  • Making the sponge city that is self-reliance on Water.
  • Development of Green building



Previous
Next Post »