Environmental Planning
Urban and Rural Planning
The main motto of planning something is to create availability, accessibility, and affordability of all the resources to everyone. Urban and rural planning completes this goal as it helps in formulating a blueprint for the development of a new settlement on any land. By utilizing various engineers and experts, who come up with how air, water, and forest will be handled, how the inclusion of transportation, distribution of networks, and communication will be divided in a ecentralized manner, everything gets covered under this planning system Urban and rural planning, both have public welfare, sanitation, and environment as the priority. Where urban planning deals with creating a framework for a huge settlement, rural planning is for areas with less population but extensive natural resources like dairy, wood, etc. he planning is done by developing a synergy between social, economic, and sustainable causes.
Sustainable Cities
When the economic, social, and environmental sustainability goals of a city are enhanced and implemented to tackle new challenges that arise due to various natural and man-made factors, a sustainable city is born. Creating a sustainable city is a process through which the policies are fine-tuned with the current problems faced by a particular area. From energy efficiency to climate change, solid waste management, water conservation, each and every policy related to sustainability is revisited and reevaluated according to the current circumstances. If any discrepancies are found, new ways are amended into the system to make it fully functional with more productivity again.
Future Cities
From sky gardens to smart streets, everything sustainable and renewable, clean and green, is what we imagine our future cities to be like. But understanding how much of it is practical is also crucial. While we can develop a lot of goals, the sterling wheels are in our hands towards the course of development we chose in order to reach them. If we go by the definition of future cities or smart cities given by The World Bank, then they are technology-intensive settlements with sensors everywhere and highly efficient public services. All buildings are “intelligent”, with smart meters and energy-saving systems, and transport is painless. The debate and research questioning as to how these future cities can be built in an optimal manner are still out there.
Future Agriculture
As said by many renowned agronomists, future agriculture will be led by innovations. Using modern tools and technologies to curb problems like water shortages, nutritional losses in soil values, etc, are problems that need to be addressed with robust assessments and efficient creations. With soil testing and understanding the reason behind water depletion, such problems can be solved in a better manner. With temperature sensors, aerial imaging, and other advanced tech, a more proficient farming system can be developed.
Master Plan Design and Development
Master planning is a rigorous practice used to establish dynamic settlement projects. As per its definition on The World Bank official site: “A master plan is a dynamic long-term planning document that provides a conceptual layout to guide future growth and development. Master planning is about making the connection between buildings, social settings, and their surrounding environments. A master plan includes analysis, recommendations, and proposals for a site’s population, economy, housing, transportation, community facilities, and land use. It is based on public input, surveys, planning initiatives, existing development, physical characteristics, and social and economic conditions.” This acts as a convention through which private investments can be sought. Through this phased implementation of the construction, support from the locals, and division of public and private amenities becomes easier.
