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Amit Kapoor is chair, Institute for Competitiveness. He is an affiliate faculty for the Microeconomics of Competitiveness & Value Based Health Care Delivery courses of Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School. He is a popular teacher at the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.
Amit Kapoor is chair, Institute for Competitiveness. He is an affiliate faculty for the Microeconomics of Competitiveness & Value Based Health Care Delivery courses of Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School. He is a popular teacher at the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.
The emphasis on making urban areas liveable and sustainable for its people is what should guide our understanding of urbanisation in today's world
Rethinking cities to make them more liveable is a key component of smart cities but this requires building fair, participatory, sustainable and inclusive urban development policies
A governance ambiguity widens the gaps between the core of a city and peri-urban areas, resulting in a highly scattered and unorganised urbanisation
With an expected urban population of close to 630 million by 2030, the emphasis should not be on urbanisation alone but on planned urbanisation
The waves of urbanisation have been uneven around the world and are intrinsically tied to the level of development and industrialisation in a country
The logic of developing a city should be to foster ease of living for its people and not profits for its developers
The variations in determining what can be classified as cities are as dynamic as cities themselves
The rate of urbanisation needs to be moderated in a way that the influx of population is not concentrated in bigger cities only
The relation between economic growth rate and the degree of urbanisation is mutually reinforcing, as higher economic growth results in high incomes that influence the rate of urbanisation