Building Liveable Indian Cities - Environmental Sustainability 2010

Building Liveable Cities is a multi city investigation on ideas that can make Indian cities Liveable. This year theme is Environmental Sustainability. As part of the initiative, The EcoCities India symposiums will take place in 5 cities – Bangalore , Mumbai , Delhi , Chennai ,and Ahmedabad between Oct 18-22. The “Urban Visioning“ Program titled the Blueprint featuring the urban visions of a number of leading Indian architects will be showcased at the symposiums. The outcome will be presented in a book where a call for contribution was announced. The series will also be podcasted.

Confirmed Speakers include Hank Dittmer , CEO , The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment; Henning Thomsen , Jan Gehl’ Urban Quality Consultants; Christopher Kost , ITDP ; Patricia Annez , Brookings institute; Leading Planners including Dr. Bimal Patel , SK Das among others.

The theme of Building Livable cities 2010 is EcoCities - Driving India towards the age of sustainability which will explore strategies that can make Indian cities environmentally sustainable. Today, cities occupy about 2% of the world's surface area and have a disproportionately large impact on the earth’s ecology. According to the United Nations, cities are responsible for 75% of global energy consumption and 80% of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, a large part of the solution towards solving the crisis of Climate Change lies in solving the crisis of Cities. This series of multi city forums is aimed at creating a blueprint of a sustainable future.