Dhwani Chawla

UI4003

City Infrastructure Planning involves several sub-sectors and institutions engaged in planning, designing, delivery and management of Infrastructure Services. This studio intends to develop a detailed understanding of how city level infrastructure plans are prepared and integrated with city wide development proposals and visions. We worked in teams to deal with Macro, micro as well as sectoral issues and develop an integrated perspective of CIP, including norms and regulations, assessment of demand and supply issues, identification and prioritization projects. As a part of Infrastructure planning studio an effort to develop City Infrastructure Plan for the city of Surat was undertaken. After analyzing the issues and potentials of the city's infrastructure the necessary infrastructure requirements were identified that would lead to social as well as economic development of the city. The detailed projects for focus area in SUDA was undertaken. The framework of CIP was based on the urban nexus between water, green spaces, wastewater, solid waste as well as social infrastructure and strategies. The methodologies followed for the CIP development process included writing the base analysis to identify strategies for stress and opportunity sectors. The way forward was coming up with detailed pilot projects with development objective amalgamating environmental, social and physical benefits and costs. These were strengthened by International, National, State level schemes, plans, missions such as Smart Cities, sustainable development goals, Resilient City plans, etc.