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Smart or dumb? The real impact of India's plan to build 100 smart cities

With high-rise housing comes dependence on centralised flows of energy, water supply, waste disposal

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Hugh Byrd | The Conversation
In 2014, the new Indian government declared its intention to achieve 100 smart cities.
In promoting this objective, it gave the example of a large development in the island city of Mumbai, Bhendi Bazaar. There, 3-5 storey housing would be replaced with towers of between 40 to 60 storeys to increase density. This has come to be known as “vertical with a vengeance”.
We have obtained details of the proposed project from the developer and the municipal authorities. Using an extended urban metabolism model, which measures the impacts of the built environment, we

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