Urban woes and construction catastrophe

The process of urbanisation stipulates a need to expand as the number of people settling in cities increases. This expansion rests on a smart city design where access to everyday necessities and sources of leisure are not restricted or entirely cut off. Simply put, the logic of developing a city should be to foster ease of living for its people and not profits for its developers.

Undeniably, cities need to expand as the population living in them increases. The recently released World Population Prospects 2022, by the United Nations, has stated that the population in India is expected to surpass