The Indian Cities especially those suffering from acute Land shortage like Trivandrum should be exempted from the laws favoring horizontal development. Horizontal development is a curse to such cites. Horizontal development takes up an awful lot of land for development of commercial as well as residential spaces. It earns a poor land utilization value and huge depletion in green cover. It will create sprawling tiny houses , narrow streets , busy roads etc which makes it very hard to compete with other international cities to tackle global warming.
where as in vertical development it takes up very little land when compared to horizontal sprawl. Chances are more for constructing green and efficient buildings.And its a bit more easier to tackle global warming as it leaves the chances for more green cover. It is also very helpful in ensuring maximum land utilization. For an example a 50 storied medium sized high rise residential structure can support more than 500 apartments, and you can see that 500 families are living in this very same building. But if it was in the case of horizontal sprawl, these 500 families would construct independent villas which would take away an awful lot of land and hence you can see the disappearance in green cover. Hence lot of land is unnecessarily wasted. vertical development confines the people within the city limits which could increase chances of protecting the green suburbs. This could maximize the use mass transportation more efficiently.
So then let us think about this fact, and let us ,make more chances of a greener India with greener cities and not an Indian with coloured concrete blocks.
I would like to see the people advocating vertical development to live in these "vertical settlements".
ReplyDeleteSaying something and directing others to do it and doing it yourself are two different things.
Though i prefer to live in an independent villa in a suburb area(horizontal development),the vertical development is more practical and sustainable especially for kerala.