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Title:            Satellite Cities: the only hope of Megacities - A case of Indian scenario
Authors:       Vikas Kumar Nirmal
Abstract:     Urban Sprawl, a never ending process has been a major challenge while dealing with
development plans of these megacities. The major thrust of action is how to deal with sprawling urban areas along with dormitory towns simultaneously. The labyrinth structure of these towns together brings the need of another Big Bang Theory for the Urbanists and Planners dealing in finding the solutions. The need of the hour is not only concentrated or confined to single Master plan but series of them put together and forming a single aim of Regional goal. The planning approach will now be not only uni-directional but multi-faceted that too with Top-to-Bottom as well as Bottom-to-Top while dealing with agglomerations like Delhi National Capital Region and Mumbai Metropolitan Region etc. The remarkable growth of India’s population in urban areas over last two decades is alarming or perhaps giving the glimpse of WHAT the Future of Indian towns and cities will be. The emerging new towns developed from the suburbs have been seen as a new hope for the cities which are already saturated and facing the dearth of every resource possible in their kit. The planning approach for buffet cities is though bold but a pragmatic one to think upon to be ready for time to come instead of waiting the bubble burst in new towns also. The paper aims to analyze the different models executed in order to streamline the urban sprawl in Indian megacities. It also emphasize upon the pros and cons of the approaches used and will perhaps try to convey how an urban agglomeration need a distinctive approach of planning.

Keywords:    Urban Sprawl, Urbanists, Regional Goal, Delhi National Capital Region, Mumbai Metropolitan Region and Urban Agglomeration.
Pages:          250-255

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