New cities from scratch are often portrayed as utopian and solutions to the problems of existing cities (pollution, crime, poverty, poor housing, and infrastructure, etc.). This was the case with the 20th Century British New Town movement and it is again the case with new smart and sustainable master planned cities, although the details are very different. Given the readings, viewings, and listening this week, how would you assess the promises made about scratch cities and what might be of concern?
Amrit:
Existing cities are becoming overcrowded with millions of people, buildings are filled with people, roads are completely jam, increasing pollution, housing shortage, etc. are some of the issues faced by people, which is somehow affecting their lifestyle and the city itself is facing serious problems due to various system failures and complexity. To resolve all these issues, scratch cities were introduced wherein they had a motive to attract a large portion of the population from the existing populated cities so that the issue of overcrowding in the building, roads, the market can be resolved. they promised to bring new infrastructures with the latest technology which can help in making people’s live a bit relaxed and most importantly to boost up the economic growth. But according to me, creating new cities from scratch would be more challenging than the issues listed in the existing cities. Cities like Rome or New York were not created recently, it took them hundreds of years to come to the position where they stand now. It is very easy to say let’s create a city from scratch, but there are many concerns that need to keep in mind before implementing this plan. Individuals who have an established business in the existing cities would be reluctant to move to a new city, due to which only those population would go who are looking for growth opportunity, if existing business companies don’t go to these scratch cities there are chances that the growth of the scratch cities would be stagnant as there would be more people looking for jobs than the jobs actually vacant. Moreover, dealing with such modern infrastructure would be extremely complicated and expensive to maintain. System failures are still possible, sewage system failures are one of its examples.
Shivani:
Life in big cities is more comfortable and stable Because big cities are pulled with modern technology and amenities. but as we can see every coin has two sides, so to make a sustainable life in big cities also cause a lot of problems related to pollution, crime, poverty and so on. to resolve on these problems some steps should be taken.
If I talk about the case that is explained in the question that building a new town is not that much easy that we can think because that takes a long time to plan each and every single accepts of a sustainable city. The city of the future must, first and foremost, serve citizens who combine all prosperity with a desirable lifestyle. These goals must be achieved without harming people living in other areas. For example, the export of CO2 emissions from imports of 4,444 fossil fuels and raw materials produced by resource-dependent processes and other environmental pressures is not permitted. This does not mean that cities cannot import raw materials or energy-intensive raw materials from outside the border. Rather, the energy and material content of imports must be weighed against that of exports (Riffat, 2016).
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Riffat, S. (2016, February 25). Future cities and environmental sustainability. Future Cities and Environment. Retrieved 2020, from https://futurecitiesenviro.springeropen.com/articl…
In the growing population world cities have made overcrowded due to which there is lack of space in the cities. There is need to shift the people at different place to make the cities less crowded and pollution free. The government has to made restrictions on the limit of the family planning and using the land for creating separate houses. Instead of it flats or large buildings would be developed at where multiple families can settled in a single building that would effectively manage the utilization of land and prevent the land wastage. Resolving the issues by developing new cities from scratch creates a perception of both hope and concern. Building new cities from scratch by implementing new innovative creations for resolving their existing issues related to increased pollution, crime cases, extreme congestion, poor infrastructure and other poverty issues has eventually sparked hope in rebuilding these cities for creating a better and greener future (Angelo & Vormann, 2018). However, underlying concerns such as flawed planning, and halted construction of building eco-friendly city projects arising from economic concerns can negatively impact the entire process, thereby developing a completely uncertain fate for the scratch cities.
Manjot:
As we know cities are overcrowded due to which all the rural areas should be developed to make revenue and standardized the living environment of common people.
First and foremost, future cities must serve their citizens, combining increased prosperity for all with desirable life styles. These aims must be achieved without detriment to people who live in other regions; for example they must not export carbon emissions by importing goods manufactured by fossil fuel and feedstock dependent processes or create pollution elsewhere. This is not to say that a city cannot import feedstock or energy intensive goods from outside its borders; rather the energy and material contents of imports must be balanced by those of exports. To this end, future cities must adopt wide scale utilisation of renewable energy, waste management/minimisation, water harvesting/recycling, landscape/biodiversity to enhance the natural environment, use of green transport systems, applications of innovative material/construction methods (low/zero carbon buildings) and local food production.
While such aspirations would have been familiar to city designers in antiquity, their modern counterparts can draw upon newer technologies such as integrated smart management control systems based on wireless sensor networks, which by detailed monitoring can turn wasteful cities into sustainable cities.
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