Cityform-India network: Urban social sustainability in India's rapidly growing cities

Cityform-印度网络：印度快速发展的城市的城市社会可持续性

• 批准号: EP/H010777/1
• 负责人: Elizabeth Burton
• 金额: $ 9.28万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FH010777%2F1
• 关键词: Cityform; India; network; Urban; social

The rapid growth rate of India's urban areas is a clear sign of its recent economic progress. One third of India's 1.1 billion people live in Indian towns and cities which are growing in varying and complex ways. The rapid demographic growth in and around India's urban areas is changing the physical dimensions of the city, such as its size, shape, density, land uses, layout and building types: a complex mixture of numerous characteristics including infrastructure and transportation. Increased urban development is putting intense pressure on existing urban infrastructure to support residents' quality of life. Rapid urban growth can take the form of high-density urban forms which are associated with poor living conditions, high levels of pollution and high incidence of crime. Urban growth and associated changes in urban form are clearly unsustainable, further exacerbated by (and contributing to) problems including regional displacement of rural populations into urban areas and localized social inequality.While there is growing awareness of these issues in India, gaps exist in urban policies and there is a lack of clarity in mechanisms for implementing development and planning policies at the local level. The main contributory factor of such gaps in policy is the dearth of knowledge and understanding of how the urban environment affects social sustainability, i.e. residents' wellbeing, quality of life and everyday life, in India's cities. There is therefore an urgent need in India for empirical evidence examining socially sustainable urban form to develop evidence-based government strategies and urban development policies. CityForm-India is a proactive research network aimed at addressing this need now. CityForm-India is a network of academics, policy makers and key stakeholders in the field of urban sustainability. The aim of the network is to create and sustain an exchange of international knowledge and expertise on aspects of culture, society, economics, environment, infrastructure, drivers of urban growth and urban policies which are relevant to the provision of socially sustainable living environments for India's urban residents. This research network is led by the multidisciplinary Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD: Sustainable Urban Environments (SUE)) and aims to facilitate the sharing of experience, expertise and knowledge of network members to identify the arising research challenges and opportunities within the context of India's rapidly growing cities. Network members have extensive collective research expertise and experience from a range of disciplines including urban economics, housing policy, urban design, infrastructure, transport, health and wellbeing. Through a series of networking events, knowledge exchange and dissemination activities held in India and the UK, the network will be the foundation of long-term research collaboration between academic and non-academic UK, Indian and international members. Throughout the network, a website will be developed as an important means of communication and dissemination. This will include public access to a discussion forum, webcasts and presentations from events as well as regular emails to network members, newsletters and the provision of secure online space for the sharing of working papers. Through these and other knowledge sharing and dissemination activities, the network members will make a significant contribution to knowledge in the field of socially sustainable urban form culminating in the generation of grant proposals for future empirical research.

印度城市地区的快速增长是其最近经济进步的明显迹象。印度11亿人口中有三分之一生活在印度城镇，这些城镇正在以各种复杂的方式发展。印度城市及其周边地区人口的快速增长正在改变城市的物理维度，如大小、形状、密度、土地用途、布局和建筑类型：包括基础设施和交通在内的众多特征的复杂混合体。日益增长的城市发展给现有的城市基础设施带来了巨大的压力，以支持居民的生活质量。城市的快速发展可以采取高密度的城市形式，这与恶劣的生活条件、高水平的污染和高犯罪率有关。城市增长和相关的城市形式变化显然是不可持续的，农村人口区域迁移到城市地区和局部社会不平等等问题进一步加剧(并加剧了)这些问题。虽然印度对这些问题的认识日益增强，但城市政策存在差距，在地方一级执行发展和规划政策的机制缺乏透明度。造成这种政策差距的主要因素是缺乏对城市环境如何影响社会可持续性的知识和理解，即印度城市居民的福祉、生活质量和日常生活。因此，印度迫切需要经验证据来审查社会可持续的城市形式，以制定以证据为基础的政府战略和城市发展政策。CityForm-India是一个积极主动的研究网络，旨在解决目前的这一需求。CityForm-印度是一个由城市可持续发展领域的学者、政策制定者和主要利益攸关方组成的网络。该网络的目的是建立和维持有关文化、社会、经济、环境、基础设施、城市增长动力和城市政策等方面的国际知识和专门知识的交流，这些方面与为印度城市居民提供社会可持续的生活环境有关。这个研究网络由多学科牛津可持续发展研究所(OISD：可持续城市环境(SUE))领导，旨在促进网络成员分享经验、专业知识和知识，以确定在印度快速发展的城市背景下出现的研究挑战和机会。网络成员拥有广泛的集体研究专业知识和经验，来自一系列学科，包括城市经济学、住房政策、城市设计、基础设施、交通、卫生和福祉。通过在印度和英国举办的一系列网络活动、知识交流和传播活动，该网络将成为英国、印度和国际成员学术和非学术领域长期研究合作的基础。在整个网络中，网站将被开发为重要的沟通和传播手段。这将包括向公众开放讨论论坛、网络广播和活动介绍，以及定期向网络成员发送电子邮件、通讯和为共享工作文件提供安全的在线空间。通过这些和其他知识分享和传播活动，网络成员将对社会可持续城市形态领域的知识作出重大贡献，最终为未来的实证研究产生赠款建议。