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RE: How Does a Village Become a City?
Very interesting piece. One of the problems I'm noticing since moving to Southern California (I grew up in rural upstate New York) is that affordable housing is completely non-existent and therefore sprawl has been the response. I believe this has a lot to do with many of the arbitrary restrictions placed on density (height of structures is heavily restricted, along with huge open space easements). Couple this with a near complete lack of mass transport options and you get a good idea of why we have the miserable experience that is Southern California traffic. Was there any thought put into these kinds of problems in the planning of Naya Raipur?
Transportation is a huge element here, especially in India where you have dozens of "modes" of getting around. A big portion of this study was about layering easements and providing an efficient hierarchy between buildings / sidewalks / streets / highways. Here's a drawing that a transportation engineer friend of mine drew. It's brilliant in how it frames all of these transportation options as part of the same ecosystem.
We also provided density and building height plans. But organizing street networks was the biggest task. Once you have a healthy street network in place, good things will happen.