Comprehensive Smart City Development through Advanced and Modern Urbanization

A smart city is one such city that uses technology to make optimal utilization of resources to make cities more efficient, sustainable and people-centric. If we see, in the last two decades, urban infrastructure in many Indian cities has been upgraded. Modern airports, flyovers, bridges and expressways can be traced in most big cities in the country. But, the quality of urban services has not kept pace with the population explosion in many of our major urban centers. Overcrowding has caused a space crunch, which is accumulated due to lack of effective and scientific utilization of spaces. A smart city is attributed by smartness along multiple parameters, with smart governance playing a master role in aiding each of them. Government of India have taken an initiative to develop 100 cities to develop as smart cities. Main components of area-based development in the Smart Cities Mission are city improvement (retrofitting), city renewal (redevelopment) and city extensions (Greenfield development) as well as a Pan-city initiative which confirms Smart Solutions are applied covering larger parts of the city. In this paper, study area is selected from Orange city- Nagpur. The town is dominated in 1818 by the British fort built in that year on the twin hills of Sitabuldi located in the centre of the city. Zone 2 which is Dharampeth area, are studied in this paper among 10 main zones of the city. To make a smart city, this paper studies the strategic blueprint identified four broad growth directions: building a more sustainable city, movement people and not of vehicles, achieving accomplishment in providing citizen services, and restructuring economy.