Exploring the Role of Neighborhood Habitats for Sustainability
- Vol.19(1), Jan-Mar
- New Delhi Institute of Town Planners 2022
- 31-48p.
Intrinsic dynamics between character, design and structure of settlements impacts the ‘worth’ of a society as well as the identity and sustainability of a ‘neighborhood-hab- itat’. Hence, it become important to explore possibilities of interventions at ‘spatial’ and ‘policy’ levels, and ‘sustainable’ and ‘people centred’ development as against an ‘economy-centred’ or ‘people-defiant development’. It thus, becomes inevitable to un- derstand and review at ‘neighborhood’ level planning approaches in ‘existing settle- ments’ through ‘neighborhood regeneration’ approaches, which is the primary aim of this paper. To do this the paper analyzed scholarly literature on economically, envi- ronmentally and socially sustainable, ‘neighborhood level’ planning and development approaches at a global scale. It is also endeavored to explore possibilities of interven- tions that may aid in a ‘society centred’ development, aimed at nourishing an ethically sensitized society for the generations to come.