Smart Master Planning for Cities

This book, based on international collaborative research, presents a state-of-the-art design for 'Smart Master Planning' for all metropolises, megacities and metacities as well as at subcity zonal and community and neighborhood level. Smart Master Planning accepts that all cities are a smart city in making in a limited way as far as the six components for smart cities, namely smart people, smart economy, smart environment, smart mobility and smart governance are concerned. Smart Master Planning in any city can only be designed and executed by active roles of smart people and smart city government and is a joint and synchronous effort of e-democracy, e-governance and ICT-IOT system in a 24 hour 7-day framework on all activities. In addition to use of information and communication technologies and remote sensing, the design of Smart Master Planning utilizes domain-specific tools of many aspects of a city to realize the coordinated, effective and efficient planning, management, development and conservation that improve ecological, social, biophysical, psychological and economic wellbeing in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of development ecosystems and stakeholders. This book will present 12 case studies covering more than 12 cities or more cities centered on domain-specific smart planning components.

Professor T. M. Vinod Kumar has 49 years of professional experience in urban and regional planning, urban and regional infrastructure, urban environmental management, application of GIS in urban planning, models in planning, urban design and smart cities. Further, he has extensive consultancy experience throughout India in connection with urban and rural development, infrastructure, tourism and healthcare and in Malaysia with regard to new town planning and development, city center and housing planning and structure plans. He has worked in Bhutan, China, Pakistan, Nepal and India as a Regional Program Coordinator for the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development's Energy for Mountain Development Program. Academically, he has worked in the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, as a Professor, Head of the Department of Urban Planning, Head of the Centre for Systems Studies and Analysis, Head of Centre for Urban Studies and Dean of Studies at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He also worked as a planner-engineer for the Ford Foundation, India. He was a Visiting Professor at Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia, and is currently at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut. He is the Author of numerous books and journal articles and a Project Manager for several consulting projects in India and abroad.