The master plan and the slaves
The HinduAmitabh Kant, India’s G20 Sherpa, stressed at a recent Urban-20 City Sherpas’ meet that a master plan is crucial for any city to manage urbanisation. While this is a central legislation focused on industrial pollution, the legal and institutional frame of the master plan remained unchanged with its archaic conceptions of land development for urban service rationalities. Fourth, the statutory and spatial nature of the master plan can pose constraints on the programmatic plans, especially the spatially associated ones such as the plans for protection of water bodies. So, should the instrument of master plan be reimagined to accommodate these emerging demands and sensibilities of urban governance? First, we must acknowledge that the master plan instrument may be limited by its archaic conceptions and entrenched institutional cultures.
History of this topic
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