India is building a high-tech sustainable city from scratch

[Just AnotherPerson]

India plans to build 100 of these cities.

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See more at the link https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/...ity-amaravati/

Excerpt:

Skyscrapers, high-rise apartments, neon signs and congested roads. These are a few things that might spring to mind when you think about a modern city.

Many of the world’s major conurbations are organically grown sprawls – think of London, Tokyo, New York or Mexico City – and face challenges including air pollution, traffic jams, waste disposal and homelessness.

So what if you could start from scratch and try to create utopia? And what if one of the world’s leading architects designed the centre?

That’s happening in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, where the local government has enlisted Norman Foster to help redesign the capital city for the province, Amaravati. Singapore-based urban consultants Surbana Jurong are also involved in the planning, which aims to create jobs and homes for all, a world-class infrastructure, a green city and efficient resource management.

Foster’s team is designing the central focus of the 217-square-km city, including the Legislature Assembly and High Court Complex, and according to the architect, the design will incorporate “decades-long research into sustainable cities” as well as the latest technologies being developed in India.

[Sergeant Gleed]

Sounds like fun. What happens when the natives move in? How are their laws and designs going to fare when the reality of third world poverty comes to call?

Gonna be interesting.

[Just AnotherPerson]

[Peter1469]

It will be interesting to see. I wonder how they will fund it on top of the normal governmental operations. And I wonder how their caste system will play out in these new cities.

[Captdon]

They can't clean the Ganges but they're going to do any of this?