This conference was focused on "Achieving Sustainable Urban Form for Indian Cities". It was held at the Centre for Environment, Planning and Technology (CEPT) in Ahmedabad in buildings designed by Doshi. The conference was also organised by NIUA with its Director Chetan Vaidya present, the School of Planning and Architecture from New Delhi and the University of Oxford Brooks from the United Kingdom.
The presentations included detailed
studies of two mid sized towns -- Fairadabad outside Delhi and Rajkot in
Gujurat. In Rajkot many families had small houses with a maximum of 50 square
metres in a 2 storey building. The overall density of the town is 133 people
per hectare with the old quarter getting up to 300 people per hectare. The Floor
Space Index (FSI) is from 0.66:1 to 1.5:1. Similar research was presented for
Faridabad. I met a number of key people at the conference including the Dean of
Planning from CEPT Professor Utpal Sharma and a number of key women who I was
able to interview in the following days.
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