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Booming Cities Of India – In Need Of Urban Planning
October 31, 2007 at 6:17 PM
General Health News
The year 2007 marks the first time in the history of mankind when the number of people residing in cities has overtaken those staying in villages. India's 300 million city dwellers contribute a significant one-tenth of the world's urban population.
These figures are courtesy the Urban Age India conference that opens in Mumbai on Nov 1. Urban Age was initiated by the London School of Economics (LSE) and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society. The organization aims to "shape the thinking and practice of city leaders” and achieve “sustainable urban development". It has studied Indian metropolitan cities as well as New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Berlin.
Some facts garnered from the study by Urban Age were that Greater Mumbai has a density of 27,348 people packed in each square kilometer, as against Kolkata's 24,454, Bangalore's 19,040 and Delhi's 9,340. In its 'peak density' area, Mumbai can boast, or bemoan, 101,066 people packed in a single square kilometer - more than any other of the nine cities globally included in this study.
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