Delhi- Metropolis city

LOCATION:
The National Capital Territory of Delhi is stretched over an area of 1483 sq km. As far as the location of Delhi is concerned, it
stands in the middle of the Indian sub-continent, between the Himalayas and Aravallis range. Bordered by Haryana in the east and
by Uttar Pradesh across the river Yamuna, Delhi is located approximately 213 to 305 m above the sea level. It is around 33 miles
and 30 miles broad.

CITY LAYOUT :The city plan of Delhi is a mixture of old and new road patterns. The street network of Old Delhi reflects the defense
needs of an earlier era, with a few transverse streets leading from one major gate to another. Occasionally a street from a subsidiary
gate leads directly to the main axes, but most Old Delhi streets tend to be irregular in direction, length, and width. Narrow and
winding paths, culs-de-sac, alleys, and byways form an intricate matrix that renders much of Old Delhi accessible only to pedestrian
traffic. Conversely, the Civil Lines (residential areas originally built by the British for senior officers) in the north and New Delhi in the
south embody an element of relative openness, characterized by green grass, trees, and a sense of order.
ELEMENTS OF EKISTIKS :

INTRODUCTION :
• Based on the key aspects mentioned in the three Master Plans of Delhi (1962, 2001, 2021), a list of indicators were identified to
represent each element of Ekistics.

• After the categorization of the indicators, the change in the scale of the indication was studied and a graph was plotted for each
indicator highlighting the trend of the aspect in the last sixty years.

• The data used for analysis was predominantly from the three Master Plans Of India, and some research papers, focusing on growth
trends through satellite imagery, were also incorporated.

• The analysis undertaken remained focused on the aspect of environmental responsiveness of the various indicators incorporated
towards a comprehensive development plan for city.
NATURE & THE CITY :
• The Master Plan guides the framework for a conceptual regeneration, shaping the manmade environment, along with the naturally
built environment.

• And the section covers an in depth analysis of the planning provisions of the three Master Plan for Delhi, in context to their
environment responsive parameters, with the major concerns being geographical interest in the relationship to the people and the
environment with morphological ,transportation, location economics and urban ecological analysis.

• Environmental responsive parameters have most often been confused with exclusive environmental aspects only.

• Such major concerns are ensured by long-term planning documents which provide a guide to maintaining future growth, and at the
same time creating a balance between the social, economic, ad environmental settings.

• The city of Delhi has been a witness to three Master plans that have been operated on various spatial scales in context to their
planning measures. And Delhi being the political and economic centre for the whole nation must ensure the flexile framework ad
planning.

• The initial Master Plan of 1962 was ensured to keep at check the city’s unplanned growth pattern. The result of which was the
haphazardous concentrations of people at various parts of the city.

• It thus became important to look at the constantly evolving strategies for ensuring guided growth and development.
Nature and the City
ANTHROPOS AND THE CITY:
• The master plan for delhi 2001 was praised for providing effective lung spaces for the city and regulating the development and the
activities in various urban sector considering the greens.
• The plan suggested generation of a central city in alignent with the approach of the western cities, focusing on minimal travelling,
nominal road changes and widening of roads.
• The major concern of the plan was to emphasize the between the social, physical and econimical aspects, in cosideration to the
environment.

• The plan catered to the adequate infrastructure, housing and transportation networks, guiding the economic development through
channelization of industrial, commercial and service related activities, reflecting the image of the region, as the capital city of the
nation.
• The volume of transportation, however remained a relevant issue which remained uncontrolled and the city still faces problems.
• The attempt was of conserving old spatial structures of the city which gave rise to the growth in the suburbs of city and shifting
economic base of the city.
SOCIETY AND THE CITY:

Society and the City

• The economic shift generated issues of provision of large scale infrastructures.

• The review of proposal in 2001 suggested towards degrading of environment and implement framework.
• The short coming in the two master plan prior to 2021, were based on miscalculations in the projected population size of the city.
• The large scale difference led to the deterioration in the environmental condition of the city, it ruined the agricultural belts of the
city.
• The master plan for 2021 witnessed a conceptual shift from ‘the principal of controlled development land’ to ‘the principal of
demand and supply’ of the open economy.
• The newly proposed development pattern of city based on sustainability and factors of conservation.
NETWORK AND THE CITY:
• The area of river Yamuna & Aravalli ridge were the major concerns. Along with ensuring the cleaning drive of river , the master plan
2021 also gave extension of the green belt from 15% to 20%, provisions of multi-purpose grounds, refurbishment of trunk sewers,
treatment of drains, industrial effluents, etc.
• With drain network or network to streams, major concern were the river and ridge. As the two major eco-system are in state of
degradation.
• The location of the buffer areas and the relationship of Delhi with the greater region needs to be redefined because of thee
increasing population pressure which is serious concern owing on the cultivable land around the city.

Network and the City

Growth Pattern Of Delhi Based On Masterplan

CONCLUSION:
• Nature and the city graphs clearly illustrates the inverse relationship being developed as a consequence of the respective Master
Plan implementations.
• Nature has shrunken considerably in the last sixty years. It is the only element, which has undergone a considerable decline and
requires a major ecological regeneration initiative.
• The humans have always been extracting ecological resources for their benefits . Such practices have led to the depletion of the
resources - land, water and vegetation.
• The city exists in patterns – of built and unbuilt.
• It’s important to identify the pattern that exists in and around ecological boundaries, particularly the greenscapes and the
waterscapes, for the city of Delhi.
• The last two-decade saw a drastic increase in the city’s urbanisation cover and growth boundary, thereby affecting the city’s
waterscape and the greenscape.
• The city witnessed an alarming drop in the wetland count, from 793 in 2004 to 400 in 2010 (Bhatnagar, 2015), the flood plains of the
22km long city river Yamuna further shrunked by 20% in the decade between 2001 to 2011(Said, 2015), the forest and tree cover,
however, has shown a modest increase of 1.13% from 2005 to 2015 (Forest Survey of India, MoEF, 2015). The city ecology seems to
be bearing the ill effects of urbanisation. The dynamic interaction between the natural environment and the human culture is
witnessing a decline.
• It is important that an integrated approach is followed wherein experts from the fields of urban design, building sciences,
climatology, environmental history and heritage can contribute towards the process of identification of the patterns in the city’s
ecological boundaries as part of the greater ecology.
• The ecological elements along with the built environment shall be taken into consideration and the resultant patterns should be
addressed towards planned strategies and methods needed to be adopted for better environmental performances and conservation
strategies during the development process of ecological boundaries, thereby effectively improving the ecological health of such
areas, and the greater region.

REFERENCES:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344604559_Ekistics_the_City_%27Nature%27_Vulnerability_Evaluation_for_Delhi
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