VIRTUAL: Livable Cities – New York
Abstract
The term “liveability” describes a place’s qualities that can interact with one another and satisfy a person’s social, economic, and cultural needs. Whereas “urban liveability” refers to a wide range of elements that determine how liveable a city is. It can be interpreted as the satisfaction and social wellbeing of urban residents, their access to resources like public infrastructure, health services, real estate, social and environmental services, sense of place and belongingness and cultural resources, etc., which support a sustainable and healthy way of life and give residents an experience of good quality of life. According to the current situation, Indian cities are experiencing massive urban population expansion, with India’s predicted urban population by 2050 accounting for half of the world’s urban population. It’s crucial to comprehend the factors that contribute to a city being liveable to give urban residents a comfortable built and natural environment. This paper aims to outline liveability indicators for the emerging Indian cities. The research questions are, what are the key metrics used to assess how well Indian cities are able to offer their citizens with a liveable environment? What new parameters should be applied to ensure ease of living? The goal of this research is to identify prospective parameters and associated indicators that would best suit Indian cities. The research concludes with a set of newly established indicators which are crucial to be integrated within the existing framework.
Keywords: – urban liveability, quality of life, Indian cities, measurable indicators.
I am a first year Ph.D. scholar in planning and architecture department of national institute of technology Rourkela. my research area is contemporary urbanization. I have completed my master’s thesis on assessment of ease of living index. I have completed my bachelors in architecture and masters in urban and regional planning from Odisha university of technology and research. I have worked as a contractual faculty on the same university before joining my fulltime Ph.D. program at NIT Rourkela. My interest area of research lies on liveability, sustainability, and contemporary urbanization.
Dr. Sarkar has completed her doctoral research in 2016 on socio-economic vulnerability assessment. She has completed sponsored research on Transgenerational cities and urban communities and has been associated with landscape projects as consultant. Her research interests are vulnerability assessment, age friendly and child friendly cities, quality of life and livability.
Dr. Nabanita Saha is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and Architecture, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. Following the completion of her master degree program in City Planning from IIT Kharagpur, she had the opportunity to work on various urban planning consultancy projects under the aegis of Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur. These opportunities led her to have interaction with several industry experts and gained her the keen awareness of the needs of contemporary Indian cities. She obtained her PhD from IIT Kharagpur in the year 2020.