Habitat for India
@ 2047

Habitat for India @ 2047

This session explores the complex and evolving dynamics of the rural-urban transition in India and its impact on rural habitats. With over fifty percent of rural India’s output coming from outside of cultivation, it resembles a “sunken peasant habitat,” interacting with fast changing economic, social and environmental factors. Experts will help us examine how the increased demand for human development, civic services and improved amenities is changing how rural India lives. We will explore the disintegration of the traditional organizing principles of the “village world” across space, time, tradition and society, as well as its impact on spatial planning, habitat delivery and civic amenities. The discussion will sketch out this transformation and the “future rural habitat.”