Envisioning Eco-scapes for Healthy Urban Environments: A future to indemnify the past through passive measures

Abstract

As India inches closer every year towards becoming the world top ranker of economic development, the country continues to decline in human development. Diseases have crept into people’s lives along with deteriorated ecological environments triggered by rapid industrialization and modernity. The economic impetus has taken a toll on people’s wellness. Despite resources such as hospitals and clinics becoming easily accessible across the population, illnesses stay on a rise. This is because while these human-centric approaches ensure a cure, the very urban environment which causes them is not addressed. Today, the interaction between the two entities, that is human and environment ensures a very grim future for India. Not limited to addressing today’s health and ecological concerns, Healthy Cities shall be a way of living for the Indian population. This cohesive understanding of individual, community and environment to understand and make more-than-human Healthy Urban Environments is exactly what the Indian cities have the potential to exhibit.