GIS BASED DESIGN OF SMART CITIES AMENITIES

Abstract

Smart City Mission of India aims on people, their needs and freedom to enhance their living conditions with an approach incorporating the digital, information technologies and urban planning practices, which requires extensive development of corporate, economic, physical and communal infrastructure. By employing smart solutions which takes into account, qualitative plus quantitative data of area of interest, it enables the provision of analyzing the decisions and queries of various constituents of the mission. The aim of this research is to study Indian context of smart cities which suggests that each city is unique and should be dealt by the local bodies to promote adding Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to manage smart city mission initiative of each city. The challenge is to face problems and the philosophy of smart city model suggested by the government. The real issue faced by developing country like India for smart city realization lies in its old urban structure and social scenario. It is not only difficult in the old urban structure but also in the modern infrastructure due to the unrestricted urban growth and coming up of satellite towns projecting difficulty on the existing resources like water, land, employment, electricity, etc. It’s a very vast area of research but in this dissertation project we would be taking up one city and studying its specific needs and problems, the solutions provided will be analyzed in relation to the decisions taken up by the city under smart city initiatives. The objectives taken are ranking of sustainable affordable housing, Ranking and siting of storm water harvesting sites and estimation of solar photovoltaic potential of Chandigarh.