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The notion of urban development and architecture in a developing country is more or less, civic amenities, public facilities, parks, road, paving, brick and mortar etc. and 3D simulation to either publicise welfare achievements or to lure investors. We see in both public and private domain one such project after another lined up, debated, recognised, argued, praised, awarded or dropped and trashed.
While most of such projects get executed anyways even in developing countries
and cities, but most of these projects certainly, sometimes purposefully miss
one or several or most of following fundamental elements of urban planning and
architectural practice which are part and parcel to developed country's usual
planning and design practice, including Heat island effect analysis, Shadow
analysis, Wind tunnel test, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation,
shading analysis, traffic noise simulation, sustainable city/ neighborhood
development practice, Low Impact Development (LID) planning, waste heat
recovery, building heat load simulation, green building design, solar passive
design, and many more.
It's difficult to understand the root cause of same, whether it is lack of
knowledge and awareness at city administration and client level or lack of
capital or unavailability of technology or lack of technology know how or
inertia of decades of mediocre planning or simply ignorance or reluctance to
growth. Whatever be the reason it's high time that city administrations,
planning professionals and architects increasingly adopt to good essential
planning and design practices, advise clients to consider these and projects
must allocate additional budget to integrate these while consultants,
consulting firms and advisory firms must be paid judiciously to integrate and
adopt to above mentioned necessary measures. Accordingly project timelines should
also be increased to make room for adopting such good practices.
Author: Anoop Jha
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