Spatial planning beyond boundaries
Georg Jahnsen, Abhishek Agarwal, Felix Knopf, Tanaya Saha, Sumana Chatterjee, Shriman Narayan, Elke Matthaei
Spatial Planning in India is still mostly limited to the urban agglomerations. With a strong urban growth a new type of urbanism arises, that seems to be neither rural nor urban. This so-called “Peri-Urban” growth encompasses a large amount of valuable land, and if not regulated, causes high costs for the construction of public (technical) infrastructure and leads to conflicts with other land uses such as agriculture or with environmentally protected areas. Consistent and systematic spatial planning at the level of the region can be an important contribution to plan the rural-urban linkage and to prevent negative consequences of the aforementioned current spatial developments. In this regard, the Land Use Planning and Management Project, jointly implemented by the Indian Mistry of Rural Development and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, wants to revive Spatial Regional Planning as provisioned in the Constitution of India.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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