Most urban agglomerates in India today are veritable disasters, typically for the same set of reasons, primary among them being the lack of foresight as well as capriciousness in planning. Planners by and large have not an iota of knowledge about urban ecology, and the matter of sustainable cities is mumbo-jumbo for them. Of course, if self-sufficiency is to be a criterion, there cannot be any such thing as a sustainable city. For, cities have always relied on their rural hinterlands for food...
