INTEGRATED TOWNSHIPS AS A MEANS FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The study starts with explaining the suburb as a phenomenon beyond an urban epiphenomenon, which effectively brings to light the suburb as a special case of urbanization, hence demanding a different treatment than city core. Further, carefully selected Greenfield utopian models and experiments of the twentieth century are studied, to finally boil down to a form of suburban development called Integrated township , which reflects convergence of two utopian models namely, Garden city and New urbanism . Such Greenfield developments are also a part of Smart city movement in India, therefore a link is established between the two. newline