International Journal of Engineering Research
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: special2

Resurgence to Resilient City: Case of Pune

Assistant Professor, M. Arch. (Urban Design), Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Architecture, Akurdi, Pune, Email: nilima1091@gmail.com

Online published on 22 January, 2018.

Abstract

Cities are continuously changing; sometimes this change involves growth, whereas at other times it will lead to decline. Planned cities have surely given us the superficial skin of beautiful cities and ordinance of arrangement but lacking in the genesis of the place where natural resources shall be nurtured. Therefore this paper will show the issue of degrading hills of Pune and susceptible strategies to shift the range of perspective towards looking at cities from “economic entities” to “adaptive ecosystem”, in order to sustain during urbanization and put a mark towards agenda of Resilience city.

Keywords

Urbanization, adaptive ecosystem, resilience