SUBMITTED BYDISHA BISWAS (MA08/22)
WHAT IS A CITY MEAN TO YOU?
DEFINATION —
Cities are not just a sum of buildings, but especially a set of social relations that their inhabitants
develop. Cities are characterized by a wide variety of social groups and lifestyles. An urban
composition represents a form of the city in which it gets a formal order, so that the shape of any
urban ensemble is not linked to a random phenomenon, but to an intervention mastered and
understood as such. For the city, the urban composition represents what the architectural
composition represents for a building. This concept regarding the composition is common both to
the architecture and to the city. The main property of the composition is that it transforms a possibly
dispersed ensemble into a whole, resolving the contradictions that arise when the requirements and
conditions of the project are numerous. Spatial forms and urban compositions are built over time,
longer than that of architectural composition. On the other hand, “design of the urban environment”
is understood by us as a complex formation of public spaces of the city, located on the ground floor
level of the city building and ensuring the vital activity of the urban community. This chapter will
study the city phenomenon on a large scale.Cities have been the engines of economic growth since
the industrial revolution. While effective at catalysing pros perity, city development has not always
been “ smart” sacrificing human health, for instance, for greater productivity. Smart cities are now
emerging. Leading smart cities such as Stockholm, Barcelona, New York, Vienna, and Toronto have
incorporated efficiency into buildings, infrastructure, and social spaces using technological
advancements, increasing the liveability, workability, and sustainability of these places. Inspired by
these smart city developments, India is planning to build 100 smart cities in various parts of the
country. My study represents insight into how smart cities are likely to evolve in India, by studying
the priority areas considered in planning smart cities. It presents both the citizen and city official
perspectives of smart cities. The results indicate that citizens value living, followed by mobility,
environment, governance, and economy, whereas the city officials prioritize living, followed by
environment, economy, mobility, and governance. This further evaluated the titles of planned smart
city projects to determine how many of them can be categorized as smart. The analysis also revealed
how city size influences the priorities of citizens and city officials, indicating that the notion of a
smart city in India may be context specific.
CHARACTER OF A CITY:-