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Priyanka, what is your favourite city?
Bangalore, India. MG Road/ Brigade Road is my favourite spot in this city. The diversity the place boasts in terms of entertainment, sprirituality, books and liveliness is what attracts me towards it.
What is your vision of a perfect city 2050?
A place to MEET people,a place to MIX with people,a place to RELAX and a place which represents diversity with Unity at its best
You participated in our poll ” what makes cities most liveable”. In your opinion, which are the most crucial factors of a perfect city and why do you perceive them as highly relevant?
- The diversity
- Safety and Security
- The attitude of its citizens is the most important: Unless people are warm and friendly the city can not be liveable.
- The living space
In your opinion, what are the current and future challenges of our cities?
- The space crunch and congestion
- Sense of isolation of citizens
- cleanliness
Where do you see the functional responsibilities of architecture?
- Increase space to meet citizens
- Streamline the transportation
How do you define “good” urban design?
- Should have lots of people-meeting points
- Should have quick and easy transportation routes
About the author:
Where do you live?
Bangalore, India
How old are you?
22
What is your professional background?
Management student
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Hi,
“Diversity with unity” is quite difficult spot…
On the one hand, you stress the deficit of space in cities, because of the people, on the other, you want more places to meet people. How does it go together?
I agree with you about the importance of the factors you mentioned in your vision of challenges of urban design, but I would never name them on first place. Environmental problems seems to me more important.
It is really interesting to see again and again the regional differences of opinions and problems.
Anna
Anna, the concept of Unity in Diversity is what makes India stand out of the rest of the countries. 29 states, 6 union territories, 21 official languages, over a 1000 dialects, more than 5 major religions — this is what my India is made of. This is the diversity we talk of. Though, for the rest of the world, managing a population of few millions becomes a problem, India has been a flourishing country with over 1 billion population. We have already neared the goal of “Unity in Diversity” but yes, I must admit that we are a few steps away. And thats because of the communal violence that occurs in certain places.
This is the reason why, I believe, the diversity in the city and the attitude of its citizens is of prime importance for a country like India.
Priyanka