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In the last few years, unprecedented ooding in cities like Chennai, challenge is to keep pace with the increasing population burden,
Mumbai, Gurugram, increasing tra c congestion have time and futuristic planning, and development of new centers for economic
again brought to fore the perils of population explosion and poor activity leading to the emergence of new cities.”
urban planning. While the concept of ‘Smart cities / future cities / “Every infrastructure planning has a shelf life in terms of
d accommodating the needs of its resident up to a certain period.
digital cities might conjure up di erent pictures for igital cities might conjure up di erent pictures for
di erent people, the fundamental idea is to create A er that, the needs change in terms of scale and nature, both.
di erent people, the fundamental idea is to create
cities that are livable and sustainable. According to It requires being periodically relooked, reworked and redesigned.
Harish Kumar Sharma, Chief Business O cer, So, it is mainly the proper urban planning which gives a platform
Rudrabhishek Enterprises Ltd (REPL), “ e key to such needs, in order to make the city smart.”, he adds.

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