cover image: Issue NO. 317 - May 2021 - Occasional Paper

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Issue NO. 317 - May 2021 - Occasional Paper

26 May 2021

The Rain City Strategy identified numerous components, such as bioswales, rain gardens, green roofs, permeable pavements, engineered wetlands, modular systems and absorbent landscapes, to achieve the goals of water management and conservation.35 As a result of the project, Vancouver became water sensitive, was able to protect the health and vitality of water bodies and help communities and ecosyst. [...] For example, the rejuvenation of lakes is a major component of the Udaipur Smart City programme, which involves preventing sewage discharge, de-weeding lakes and stopping idol immersions.58 The city’s economy is tourism-dependent, with lakes forming a big part of this sector, and thus cleaning up the water and creating more habitable waterfronts and spaces is the crux of the programme. [...] Similarly, water cleaning and the desilting project of the Godavari river, and developing the parks, gardens and green spaces in the surrounding areas are major components of the Nashik Smart City mission.59 The interplay between and planning of the blue and green infrastructure will determine the success of both these and other smart cities. [...] The Bhopal Municipal Corporation is in the process of finalising the 2021 masterplan, while the Bhopal Smart City Development Corporation Limited, a special purpose vehicle created under the Smart Cities Mission, will help create a separate ‘green and blue masterplan’ for the city, the main goals of which are to maintain and grow the green cover, to influence citizens’ lifestyle indicators; and to. [...] Managing the drainage and sewerage network, cleaning up the lakes, and green space development emerged as the top priorities for the blue-green plan through such discussions, and gave rise to the projects that became part of the blue-green plan.73 Land scarcity in India’s high- density areas means there is limited space for blue-green installations, suggesting that high efficiency and adaptability.
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