Green cities – a way forward, today and tomorrow

Visualization of the Galaxy Plan’s urban heat island effect. Note: this is not a detailed studyThe communities of architects/ planners/ city-builders and greenbelters must come together in Auroville to manifest the city of the future (emphasis on “come together”). In contemporary urban planning, planners are now realizing since several decades the critical need of integrated green spaces to reduce the ‘urban heat island effect’ and produce bioclimatically designed, livable cities with reliable potable water resources. (The urban heat island effect is basically a bubble of concentrated heat around cities, formed by the reradiation of shortwave heat from hard surfaces that cannot escape the atmosphere.) I myself worked nearly 20 years ago in the first movement of greenroofs in New York City… in a time when every rooftop was asphalt-black, and New York was a hot, inhuman and environmentally unconscious city. But cities can and do change, mostly by necessity – as the last 20 years ha...
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