Sustainable City Strategy for Guntur flags key issues
The Hindu
UN Habitat project comes up with a model for sustainable development of the city
At a time when cities witnessing unbridled urban sprawls are tapping into sustainable and strategic planning, the Guntur Municipal Corporation too has taken a leaf out of many tier-1 and tier-2 cities, and is now using the expertise from urban planners to form sustainable strategies.
A team of urban planners from the United Nations Human Settlement Programme, working in areas of human settlement and sustainable development, has come up with a blueprint for the development of the city.
The Sustainable Cities Integrated Pilot project for Guntur has come up with several interesting findings that could be used in urban planning and in making of zonal master plans to meet the rising demand.