What inherent possibilities reside in the diversity of the Indian city? What urban innovations are now being generated from India’s thriving creativity? With a basis in the specific Indian context, can the concept of sustainable urban development be redefined?

Is the global economy, just as the world’s other resources, limited? In light of today’s financial situation, the relations between economics, growth and limitations become obvious. Do the rules of economic development dictate a system limit that permits certain economies to grow while others stagnate? What does growth really mean? Perhaps it is symptomatic that while the economies of the west are contracting, India’s continues to expand.

The eyes of the world are now on India. At the upcoming U .N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this fall, Indian leaders will have to take a position on how their nation will assume its responsibility as one of the planet’s three largest economic players. Today India is heavily dependent on fossil fuels, but the possibilities for alternative energy sources are enormous and awareness about the consequences of climate change on their own geography is high. Even if the average Indian citizen is responsible for just 1/28 of the CO 2 emissions compared with his American counterpart, the burgeoning pocketbooks of a rapidly growing middle class in a country which is soon to be the most populous in the world will have extreme consequences for our global environment and for India itself. A change in course for the world’s largest democracy would set a new international agenda. Can the Indian city reinvent itself and thereby present us with an alternative development?

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