Making Urban Flexible to Environmental change
The experience in Delhi over the last fortnight underscores the need for effective policy and action for urban resilience . There has been acceleration in the periodicity and intensity of extreme weather events over the last decade. It is time for governments and urban planners to include vulnerabilities to climate change and the risks it poses in their decision-making and planning process. This is not to take attention away from the criminal negligence of routine maintenance and callousness amounting to culpable homicide implicit in leaving openings on public streets to the sewer network uncovered. Environmental change has become an additional urban test. Atmosphere helplessness appraisals ought to be compulsory for any urban improvement. This would require changes in the arranging and advancement acts in the states: advertisement hocism is simply not reasonable any more. Information assortment and sharing it on a typical stage for grouped urban organizations to access and diss...