Shirish B Patel, Oormi Kapadia & Jasmine Saluja

SHIRISH B PATEL is a Mumbai based urban planner and a civil engineering graduate of the University of Cambridge. One of the three original authors of the idea of Navi Mumbai, he was in charge of the new city’s planning, design and execution for its first five years. He writes and petitions extensively on urban planning policy.

OORMI KAPADIA is a Mumbai based architect and urban designer. She is an alumnus of University of Mumbai and University of Texas at Austin. Heads the planning policy and project research studio as a co-founding partner at PLURAL, a collaborative approach to urban research and planning. She is a certified USGBC LEED professional and Teri Griha trainer. She writes on urban issues on various platforms.

JASMINE SALUJA is a Mumbai based architect and urban designer from SPA, Delhi. Heads the urban research laboratory at PLURAL as its co-founding partner, advocates on making urban policies people centric and demonstrates it through real life public projects. She is a TEDx Salon speaker, national council member at IUDI-Institute of Urban Designers India and a visiting faculty for urban design at KRVIA, Mumbai.

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6 METROS
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In any large city, what are the constituents of careful planning and implementation, and good management thereafter? What should we do to make a person’s functioning in the city effortless and the city a joy to live in, for all classes of citizens?

Every city is beset with its own particular problems. It may deal with these in a variety of ways. There can be varying degrees of success or outright failure. Either way there is surely something for others to learn from that experience.

The book looks at the six metropolitan cities of London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Delhi and Mumbai. Each of our six chosen cities functions within a democratic framework, with a periodically elected political leadership. The book compares and analyses different aspects of the city: governance, land acquisition, transit, housing, open spaces, other amenities including health and education, urban density, urban form and neighbourhood plans which decades later produce what we call the urban fabric of a locality.

We are told that in the coming decades there will be massive urbanization and most of this will be in developing countries which can expect a doubling or more of their existing urban settlements. The book concludes with a set of recommendations that could be used while planning city extensions or new cities, focusing on India, but possibly relevant to other countries as well.

Specifications
8.25’’ x 10.5’’ Portrait
Volume 1: 324 pages
Volume 2: 364 pages

Type of Book
Hard Bound

Author:Shirish B Patel, Oormi Kapadia & Jasmine Saluja
₹12,000Add to cart

General, New Release

6 METROS

In any large city, what are the constituents of careful planning and implementation, and good management thereafter? What should we do to make a person’s functioning in the city effortless and the city a joy to live in, for all classes of citizens?
Every city is beset with its own particular problems. It may deal with these in a variety of ways. There can be varying degrees of success or outright failure. Either way there is surely something for others to learn from that experience. The book looks at the six metropolitan cities of London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Delhi and Mumbai. Each of our six chosen cities functions within a democratic framework, with a periodically elected political leadership. The book compares and analyses different aspects of the city: governance, and acquisition, transit, housing, open spaces, other amenities including health and education, urban density, urban form and neighbourhood plans which decades later produce what we call the urban fabric of a locality. We are told that in the coming decades there will be massive urbanisation and most of this will be in developing countries which can expect a doubling or more of their existing urban settlements. The book concludes with a set of recommendations that could be used while planning city extensions or new cities, focusing on India, but possibly relevant to other countries as well.

6 METROS

$295 in other countries

Every city is beset with its own particular problems. It may deal with these in a variety of ways. There can be varying degrees of success or outright failure. Either way there is surely something for others to learn from that experience.

The book looks at the six metropolitan cities of London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Delhi and Mumbai. Each of our six chosen cities functions within a democratic framework, with a periodically elected political leadership. The book compares and analyses different aspects of the city: governance, land acquisition, transit, housing, open spaces, other amenities including health and education, urban density, urban form and neighbourhood plans which decades later produce what we call the urban fabric of a locality.

We are told that in the coming decades there will be massive urbanization and most of this will be in developing countries which can expect a doubling or more of their existing urban settlements. The book concludes with a set of recommendations that could be used while planning city extensions or new cities, focusing on India, but possibly relevant to other countries as well.

Specifications
8.25’’ x 10.5’’ Portrait
Volume 1: 324 pages
Volume 2: 364 pages

Type of Book
Hard Bound