I've lived in Delhi my whole life and have seen the metro come to life. It was surely a lifesaver from the traffic. I think the metro is one of the biggest feats in the city. It's superbly well maintained and covers all the important points - my home, school, college, workplace. Just walking distance from all my essentials. Because of the ever-increasing population, it just needs more trains and more lines.
@@rogermartinez8606 don't talk rubbish and spread misinformation unless you have seen it through your eyes. Don't believe CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera they try to portray India lower that's their ideology
Imagine you're in charge of planning a fast growing Indian city that's on track to be the biggest city in the world and you propose low density housing LMAO
@@gladitsnotme I did, but there has to be some theshold where humans say screw it, I am going to another city this place is too polluted and crowded, I am going to build my own economic opportunity, elsewhere
The planners were influenced by faulty western ideas of a good city. Vast low density housing with strict use regulations. This has happened in Chandigarh as well, it kind of succeeded there because the population was low. India has to think about high density housing with proper services for most of its cities.
Lived in Delhi for 2 months and was super surprised to see how century-old structures were surrounded by normal city life. I cant imagine having to urban plan when there is so much already existing there. Also, I studied a bit on monsoon flooding there. Turns out, much of their municipal tasks are split up among different organizations (for my project, specifically looked at sewage/drainage responsibilities). I think centralizing these responsibilities could make it easier to efficiently plan and develop.
One of the most surreal of these old/new adjacencies is how the pyramids of gaza egypt are normally photographed with just desert in the background but they are actually at the edge of a city with perfectly "normal" modern architecture.
@@Taurus388 Well does crime not coexist with the Metro system? You can get raped on this lovely metro system and since it’s in India the person that assaulted you could easily go on with their lives unbothered and unpunished. Isn’t that stupid? The legal justice system of a country is important when it comes to public transit, because members of the public can assault you and easily get away with it. Is safety of the public not an important factor of public transit? Or are you just too dense to connect the dots…?
I was in Manila once, and I couldn't handle the mind-boggling sensory overflow of this very big city. I cannot imagine how people can live in these megalopolises. I'm very fascinated and terrified at the same time.
Manila can be hell for commuters. Well it is even hell for those with cars and a driver. At least India, most men don’t need a nose job, so if you like men, India is like hell, but you get to have regular supply of Frozen margarita for only 2 dollars or less. (That being a metaphor).
delhi has some beautiful places too. many riches lives there . delhi is not just imaes shown in this video, despite of most polluted city in the world, delhi is the most greener area in the world
Yes, the intensity is too high for most Westerners and for very few Indians as well, like me. The din is always at a max, 10/10. There is no 6 or 8 there. Thankfully, I never had to live there. I come from the town of Chandigarh , 230 km NW of Delhi. Also, it's sad to see this place a living hell as my ancestors are from the region. (NCR). I like laid back places,,wherever they be. I lived very happily in Midwest of US. Kansas, Missouri.....Delhi is what I would 🏃♂️ 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️ 🏃♀️ away from!
i am from delhi and i live in the "suburb" of NOIDA, as mentioned in the video, due to lack of commercial spaces in delhi, NOIDA rather than being a green leafy suburb with low density housing is probably the most urbanised part of the delhi metropolitan region with extremely high density housing and a lot of corporate offices and commercial spaces. it resembles midtown manhattan more than any suburb in new jersey! and this is true for the "suburbs" of gurgaon, faridabad and ghaziabad as well! and now we're getting a new international airport in NOIDA so i can imagine the level of traffic we'll have in the times to come!
noida sucks ass, zomato drivers get robbed for food. Social culture is terrible, if you want to have a good time with a good crowd, you have to go to south delhi. Good schools are much more rare than in delhi or gurgaon. Better jobs, and generally far better people. Would much rather move back to south delhi or gurgaon, even if Gurgaon is badly planned. It is also definitely more midtown than noida, I say this as a native of delhi who moved to new york.
@@emergencyexit3967 thank you person of New York for unsolicited advice on the city I live and work in and on a topic I didn't even raise! 😅 honestly south delhi, Noida, gurgaon all the people are equally prejudiced and all share the same issues of traffic, pollution, crime etc. So no point in your comparison. And as far as schools go, the system itself is so rotten that a few good schools count for nothing
I personally feel Noida and Gurugram are fit for those who only go home to sleep at night, otherwise they are in their offices only. Not much happening there and the environment isn't that great. I live in West Delhi.
Urban Land Ceiling Act ruined Delhi and almost killed property rights. Delhi tried to parcel land equally to everyone and tried to ban sales outright. That law was scrapped sometime in the 90s and that's how Haus Khan was able to be gentrified. Indians cities are a great example of planning and land use policy failures. They actually make for a great case study. You should consider making a video on Mumbai. That city has its own challenges, it needs both roads and transit.
@Zaydan Naufal ummm. You have not experienced property rights in India. It's one of the few places in the world where transfer of property is not recognized as a transaction between private parties. In India, unless your local bureaucracy "validates" the two parties are of sound mind you can't transact it. India has a lot of laws with good intentions but they are applied horribly and often yields poor (often comical) results Moving away from property rights, a more relevant example is Coastal Regulation Zones Act. It was enacted to protect Mangroves around Mumbai (Coastal regions around India to be more precise). The act, the way it was formulated overnight made several parcels illegal including the govts own facilities like water treatment plants. Decades of capacity upgrades were stuck in court litigations. The end result was rivers in the city became sewers, plastic pollution became rampant in the mangroves.
Delhi had settlements near it, while Americans had planned settlements where there was nothing nearby.........you cant just draw perfect grid here in India.......there will always be some village or a structure already existing here.
@@jonnamustonen6751 and now mumbai is a making a costal road project again designed by Americans, serving less than 2% of the population and ruining the sea view 🤦♀️
I am born, brought up in Delhi, and love it to bits. But sadly, it has become unliveable now. The children have reduced lung sizes due to extensive pollution, and a lot of people face respiratory problems. The traffic is super bad, we have had instances when we are just locked up in our general area due to traffic jams on all sides, and it was frightening what would have happened if someone needed to go to the hospital. It is crowded everywhere, and many times we are not able to go to so places where we used frequent, either because of traffic or just plain over-crowding. The food is the best in the world, and I have very fond memories of growing up, but I won't go back unless it is absolutely necessary.
U PPL never wanna use public transport always prefer their own cars bikes...and then cry for traffic jams.. if there is no metro i can understand...ur city has such metro system that u can easily go any part of delhi but still u lazy lads of delhi always took out ur car even a single passenger is there ... Who r u cursing then i just don't understand??
@@tony-pc4kd Instead of talking about the problem, you guys bla bla..., attempt to find a solution. comprehend the reason why the bulk of people are driving by automobile rather than utilizing public transit. We lack BRTs and need more public buses; moreover, we need safe and distinct bike lanes, and vehicle highways are just too large. Car parking is provided near major markets, although the bulk of Delhi's population lives more than a kilometer from metro stations. Slum remediation requires a high-density housing concept.
A number of the satellite cities do have access to the Delhi Metro, including Noida, Greater Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, and Gurugram. Moreover they're currently building high speed commuter rail to cities further out, like Meerut.
@@auggieeast A single metro line to service cities with over a million people? Streets filled with all kinds of clutter and garbage, congested with all kinds of vehicles from horse carts to rickshaw's jamming the roads, and with basically no rules or regulations. Rail lines that are overcapacity, and not well maintained. And you can forget about 'high speed' rail, its high speed rail only on paper, and likely will never be completed any time soon due to the way things are done in india, politicians dont care for city planning as long as the publicity gets them votes. We've been hearing about 'high speed rail' for years now, and all sorts of other fantastical projects, all aimed at simply gathering support and votes, but will likely go nowhere or be half-heartedly completed with no actual plan or policy on how to utilize the system properly. Ultimately if you live in india (as i have lived in delhi for over 10 years), you've grown weary of hearing such things, and have learned not to to take them at face value.
@@livethefuture2492 i have lived in delhi for 40 yeras, check capacity and frequency of delhi metro , it's most modern and engineering marvel ever built one of the largest in the world in, go to chawri bazar metro station you will know , and no plan of building high speed rail there
I visited New Delhi in 1985, 86, and 87. It was nice enough back then. I haven't been back since then. We used to stay at the Janpath hotel and eat out at Nirula's in Connaught Place. I prefer going to Cochin, Mysore, Madurai, and Chennai now, because I love Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. The very Southern part of India is where I feel safest and happiest. The people seem calmer and less stressed.
Another factor is coal fired power. Brown coal is ultra dirty and ultra cheap. Obviously cars don't help but it really takes coal to reach such insane levels. (China also has this problem, coal is too cheep and available to not be used to support electrification in these countries while everyone else if freaking out over climate issues(justifiably)). To me 1960's American traffic planning means terrible congestion and urban highway obsession at the cost of any decent mass transit which would have been far more efficient by basically all metrics.
@@Rahul_G.G. thats just supply and demand, the demand is sky high and they are building more as fast as possible. Fuel cost is just one aspect of what determines the minimum profitable price a plant can operate at. The business side of the operation determines a cost as function of generation rate for the plant and then every plant submits this to the Independent System Operator who habe the job of telling everyone how much to generate to meet demand. The ISO always picks the next cheapest generator who sets the new "wholesale price" for the grid. If transmission lines into a region are at capacity then only local generation can meet new local demand and the price decouples from the rest of the grid. (Very common in cities on particularly high demand days) Wholesale price isn't what you pay as a customer, its what your distribution company/utility pays and then they normally offer a fixed rate to the customer. (You can get an unbuffered rate which can save you lots of money but in the case of exeptional circumstances can be very expensive) For a full explanation the channel Practical Engineering has 2 videos that are very helpful, one on the texas blackout in the icestorm and one on the 2003 blackout of the American northeast caused by Cleveland.
@@jasonreed7522 One problem with green energy is it is too expensive to develop a poor city if not flat out impossible. I've seen cities that have crazy expensive power due to almost exclusively green power sources stagnate for decades. Absolutely no industry and whatever industry it retains have even declined. It is easy to champion climate change when you live at a place that has already climbed the value chain but for developing cities, it is a death sentence. You just have no way to compete. The brain drain is the worst part of it as you are losing your future.
@@francisdayon green energy is not too expensive, it can be the cheapest option, especially economic "externalities" are considered. (It cost a factory nothing to polute a river with industrial waste, but that has massive social costs that the government will pay. This is why china stopped importing a bunch of recyclables from the US, the companies profited having sweatshops sort plastic by hand but the health effects were costing China's government big time) And who says the "developing" world has to climb the tech tree and make all the same mistakes as the developed world. They don't have to use coal and steam engines for hundreds of years, they can import specialty goods like windmills and solar panels. Hell india could start will concentrated solar in the south or the deserts near Pakistan, all that takes is mirrors and molten salt as the heat exchanger with a conventional thermal plant system. They have enough Brain power to have both nukes (weapons) and a space program, they could build nuclear power as an alternative to coal and build hydro in the Himalayas to serve as the battery for they concentrated solar. Upgrade transmission lines enough and they can make different regions capable of supporting eachother fully so you don't need to burn coal locally. (Also natural gas killed coal in the states thanks to fracking so I'm sure india could import nat gas or extract its own to avoid using brown coal, the dirtiest of the coals) Coal is simply cheap and dirty, unimaginably dirty with long term consequences. (Litterally creating the poor districts in western cities like London because were the smoke from the factories fell only the poor couldn't escape)
I lived in Delhi _ greater Noida.. i think the NCR regions are absorbing some people out of Delhi. There are lot of opportunities in Noida, greater Noida and these places have better planned roads and infrastructure. I think developing such areas next to the border of Delhi is a good approach.
True. Only satellite cities that have more economic activities have worked for distributing the migration burden. Noida and Gurugram are prime example of planned development, has both low and high density housing options.
I think expanding cities while taking over fertile agricultural land is not a great idea. Delhi need dense planning with more high-rises. I mean delhi Is either have placed with no planning hence high-density or suburbs with very low density planing. The city does not even have a single skyscraper for the second largest city in the world
I visited Delhi in 2016 and to an European it is just crazy big and so much is going on in the streets. But the metro was actually amazing! Very modern, guge trains build to mainly stand in and I felt like less crowded than the street :) that was an amazing trip :')
i am from delhi and i have been to about 10 to 12 european countries .....for me your cities are like dreamlands .....honestly comments like these just make us indians feel very emotional ,touched and happy as we are usually looked as dirty and inferior by europeans
Love videos like these, especially about the developing world. It’s all too easy for our western self-obsession to obscure one’s interest in what amounts to the majority of the world’s population. It would be great to see an African city like Cape Town or Lagos, or even better: a deep dive on how each country’s unique colonial past is reflected in its urbanism!
There are still serious problems with these cities, it's hardly 'urban' if the half the population is living in slums. And i don't think it should count as the largest city if it cannot support its own population. And also about 'western-self obsession', being an indian myself, its also equally important not to look at the underdog with rose tinted glasses either. Over-compensation is not good either. We always need to be balanced and objective in our analysis and viewpoints.
@@Juan-hv9bi literally every major problem you can list (fr go ahead and list them) in developing countries is rooted in colonial leftovers. just because people are stuck in the vices that were left for them doesnt mean its 'their fault', but it ALSO doesnt mean they are 'helpless'. both points are wrong
I've been to Delhi. On the way into the city at night the highway median is pretty much shoulder to shoulder with people sleeping in places. It's brutally hot and smoggy, like the hottest day in Houston but add 10 degrees, until the monsoon arrives, when temperatures become much more pleasant, but streets flood quickly due to bad drainage. Traffic is insane. On the highway, cars, donkey carts, camel carts share the roadway with cars, and if a cow wanders into Traffic, everything comes to a stop. On the up side, food is awesome, people are mostly friendly and helpful. I really enjoyed my time in India, would like to go back again. My favorite attraction in Delhi was the bird hospital. If you are walking around and see a ridiculous variety of birds flying around, Follow them. The bird hospital runs on charitable contributions, is really an amazing thing to have in the middle of a huge metropolis. My most lasting impression of India is that, the cultural mindset is completely different from ours. They really go with the flow.
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You are right but it is not that great now either. He was talking about city in general to talk about urban planning to give a broader wide future view not some stupid street. My uncle shop is in Chandini Chawk, it is still not that good. The cars still enter the place and it is still dirty.
TH-camrs, and TH-camrs who work with Nebula especially RELY on stock footage, most of which was taken in between 2010-2015. This is not a problem if the Video that they're making is about a Slow Western that is Alredy Developed, but it becomes a problem when the Video is about a developing country.
I was born in Delhi in 80s. No matter how good or bad things gonna get, I always love to go back there. Pollution level is very bad so is the traffic. Hope great things happen to Delhi
This video was super interesting! We've been talking a lot about how Western Cities are planned, but analysing some of these cities (which are still under planning) and providing a solution is the best use of Urban Planning TH-cam channels
I live in Delhi for my studies. It's a nice place overall. You can go to literally anywhere in the city with metro system. The best metro station i liked is Huaz Khas. It's more than just a station. They have multiple artworks, shops and is just larger than other ones. Tho air quality is the worst.
the video seemed incomplete without so many other aspects of urban planning not even mentioned. I know being a planner in india how hard it is to get data..so appreciate the effort. Kudos!!
A similar thing happens with Istanbul (almost 16 million population officially) in Turkey. Of course, it can't be compared to Delhi, but neighboring provinces like Tekirdağ, and especially Kocaeli are slowly being absorbed by the biggest city in Europe. Government transported many factories in Istanbul to Çorlu-Tekirdağ and Gebze-Kocaeli a few decades ago because Istanbul was too much polluted. The only reason Kocaeli has more than 2 million population is that it is close to Istanbul. Despite being a part of Kocaeli Province, Gebze is connected more to Istanbul than it's to Kocaeli. I live in Istanbul but went to high school in Gebze and many of my friends used to visit Istanbul more than they visited their provincial capital, Izmit. Normally, Istanbul's population was expected to decrease, because people were sick of crowd, traffic and high prices, but it didn't because lots of Syrian refugees came in. However last year Istanbul's population decreased a little bit, because some people moved to where they were originally from because of the pandemic, but I expect them to return when the pandemic is over.
I lived in Delhi for 5 years for my parents work as a teenager. Went to an American private school. The city though was so wild and it was so busy and populated. It was an interesting experience, and definitely got cultural shock. I learned a lot though. But wild. I honestly think the bad air pollution shortened my life too.
In the book "Seeing Like a State", James C. Scott rails against the High Modernist design ideas of Edwin Luytens, following LeCorbusier's principles of very wide streets radiating from a central point, designed for control rather than organic growth. In effect, the people of the city began using it in "illegal" ways, needing to break free of the stranglehold that the design principles tried to freeze in time. Slums however, despite proper supporting infrastructure, are organically grown, which densify their uses In the book "Planet of Slums", by Mike Davis, you can see a harrowing account of the scale of these slums, the brutality of the State against them, the economic exploitation by multinationals, the health and environmental hazards. Honestly, I'm not sure how planners will be able to do something that will stand the test of time and of the many unforeseen needs of the generations that will inherit it. I guess the towers they are building could be closer, maybe replacing their downtown golf club with high-density towers with proper public transport infrastructure around it, make it almost free for residents of some slums to move there, bulldoze the previous slum land and put high-rises, rince and repeat. But, that's my outsider's perspective. I'm sure the best would be to ask the people there what they want, mixed with best practices from urban developpers.
Wide streets radiating from a central point isn't the *worst* idea in certain contexts - I think for capital cities, it can make a lot of sense to have some areas that are deliberately made in a more 'grandiose' fashion (and wide avenues / large public parks clustering around government buildings fits that well enough). But that shouldn't really be extended to where people really are going to live, or expected to be able to plan every area in the city. That said, the big thing that jumps out at me with how Delhi is presented in this video was how growth far outstripped predictions, along with planning including suburban style sprawl - which is far too low density for the type of growth being seen. High density towers could help plug an immediate gap in housing, but really it seems like it's a mix of needing more dense housing + better transport. But transport is really tough to do at this scale of growth - I guess just way overbuild for the present and count on that capacity getting filled in later.
@@mattgopack7395 In the video they talk about banning mixed-use areas, which is an incredibly bad idea as it just leads to much more traffic all heading from residential to commercial areas, and in a high density city that's not good
@@neotrinityrakgajane Hi 😊 I was being ironic, because I'm continually amazed at how often big projects like these lack this most basic exercise; figuring out how people actually want to live. And it's insane, because you don't even have to ask them, you can simply use already available data to see which areas of a city are the most popular and most busy in terms of human beings hanging out and doing stuff. I remember being in a museum in Tokyo which showcased massive city planning designs from the second half of the 1900s by some hotshot Japanese architect. I'm not an architect, or even that interested, so I don't remember his name, but I definitely could see why he was such a big deal. The designs were beautiful and intricate and humongous. They were also all of places I would never want to live. And still, to this day, every year we see these large areas being built, designed by some detached architect fapping to his own arguably beautiful drawings instead of getting off his butt and actually go around the city, watching where people hang out, and learning. It's so weird, because it's so easy to see what makes an area great to live in and what doesn't, yet again and again we get another picturesque windy ghetto devoid of life except for the people hiding inside their homes. Basically, if I had to pinpoint what's going wrong, it's got to do with scale. Someone said something about story telling that was something to the effect of, "to tell the big story, you have to focus on the details." I think something similar is going wrong in big building projects; the focus is all too wide, and they forget to narrow in on that one family that's going to live inside that larger frame. Design that life first, then make the big picture support it. But that's just me, and I'm not an architect 😊
One of my current professors is the most well-known urban anthropologist studying Delhi. Dr. Rashmi Sadana. She's a great teacher and provide some good insight into the role that the subway system plays on the lives of women in Delhi.
It’s an intentional ploy to get people to go to Nebula. He even says at the end he’s got another video on Delhi posted there. Shame they sucked in NJB as well. I love city/urban planning, but now most of the major TH-camrs for it have moved a lot of their content out to Nebula, which I can’t get since I don’t have a credit card, and it’s incredibly frustrating.
Was there in 1980. Nothing was planned. It was an amazing chaos. Not as chaotic as Bombay, but close. I'd like to see it again, but - alas! - I'm too old and poor.
It is not even the most impressive one. Mumbai metro basically packs the entire population of texas in a 2000 square miles, compared to Delhi's 21000 square miles
@@mvalthegamer2450 mumbai do not have a proper metro so please stop comparing everything about delhi and mumbai, both are imp and great for indian economy in their respect
Pleasantly surprised to see urban villages of Delhi being focused upon. My family hails from one of these urban villages in Delhi and have been in Delhi over 500 years. (Basai Darapur if someone is curious). What was once something to be proud upon is now a major congested, haphazard mess. I still love my village and my city Delhi and hope this redlining etc could help implement some sort of planning. Thanks for video!
The difference between Chinese urban planning and Indian urban planning is staggering. I hope Delhi and other cities in India can develop that sweet sweet cyberpunk aesthetic
@@Taurus388 do u live in gurugram how can a city without water supply and sewage system I live in gurugram and it has water suppy and sweage system pta nhi kon baat phla rha hai y
Yeah that's why daily there are 5 to 6 hr long traffic jams in Beijing and this is only for delhi and northern plain India. Southern, central, north mountain, eastern and north eastern are pretty well planned. 😑
There is also a Delhi master plan 2041 and many projects like expansion of Delhi metro ,New buses ,Electric rickshaws, EV policy of Delhi gov, and much more. You can cover these on the next video on Delhi.
@@srirampatnaik9164 well atleast we are trying to fix it by we first urban celli g act in the 90s and we are heavily focusing on public transit which takes time to build
Non-Aligned Movement could have meant the best characteristics of either Capitalism and Socialism, but often went the opposite way. India is still at the beginning of its story of development, but great things lie ahead, in spite of enormous challenges. I look forward to seeing India become truly great.
@@theshadowman1398 they are absolutely boring. look at some blocks of housing projects in Ukraine. mind boggling boring. but at least it's functional. for a country like India following the American model is suicidal.
they should build more megacities in north India. there's just one metropolitan city serving more than 400 million people in the north while in south india, there are 3 metropolitan cities and Mumbai and Pune are also close by. Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow etc. should become the next Punes and Hyderabads
You don’t “build” cities, they happen due to circumstances and trends. South has bigger cities despite of the fact that north has been looting us for decades.
@@yj9032 by build, I don't mean the government should provide public sector jobs. I meant it should attract investment, build some universities to create an atmosphere of young budding professionals etc.
There are lots of large cities in northern India, including Patna, Ghaziabad, Gurugram, Chandigarh, Agra. Population density particularly of north-western UP and Patna region is very high.
@@yashagrawal88 Agra is not metropolitan even though it gets metro 🤣🤣there is no job there 🤣🤦 aur patna waha ka aadmi bhu aata hai illaz karwane , pura bihar ka bhoj up uthata hai
Lucknow has the capability because it's infrastructure is quite huge for a decade but city lacks job creation , second will be indore and there is no 3 city which can be grown into metropolitan even with infrastructure because metropolitan city creates job
I think the solution to this problem is high-speed high-capacity railways, with direct-connection trains going from one major point to all other major point, while also creating a few other major points around which development would happen because people can live there and get to work in the middle of one of those other major points like in the Delhi area. Not only that, but this can be expanded to even more distant areas, with direct-connection trains on multi-lane railways (like multi-lane roads, but with rail pairs for the trains). The more railway lanes, the more connections to other places there can be, to make sure trains are always in motion, from the moment they leave one station to the moment they arrive at another station. Sure, it might cost more to run a train like that, but people can get from one end of the country to another end of the country much quicker than by airplane, by not having to stop for intermediary stops. Even if the trains have to slow down so other trains have time to get into a station the current train is bypassing or to get out of the station the current train is bypassing and accelerate in front of the current train, with long-enough merging lines and long-enough railway switches, you could still travel very long distances. For example, for a straight-line distance of 1000 km, accelerating at 0.1g (0.98m/s or 3.528 km/h), a weight of 250 tons can be moved in 34 minutes. Add 10 minutes for loading and unloading, and get the distance in half, and you can travel 500 km in an hour or less. This is comparable to, if not faster than, airplanes. Sure, not a very comfortable ride, but very quick and effficient.
I get what you mean but I think affording something like that would not be possible for Indian citizens especially the working class. There are plans for bullet trains in India and I already think it wouldn't be so successful because Ticket would cost the same as flights. I thinking the city will keep on expanding outwards
@@ShashankSingh-cd7ib Unfortunately, the state would need to make it a free public service, at least for a certain amount of travels per person who lives up to a certain distance away from those stations, and maybe tax it some other way, and have a much higher capacity than normal trains. Heck, they could even use 4 tracks per lane instead of 2, to get a lot more people per train, and even be able to fit shipping containers perpendicular to the direction of travel and parallel to the ground, to offset some of that cost by setting up shipping points so businesses also don't need to use cars to transport goods between those stations, while also make the trains more economically viable. In fact, one of those points could be an inland shipping port, to instantly move cargo from ships to that point, and from that point to leave to the rest of the country and especially to those other stations connected to the network. Sure, the cargo would need to not be fragile, but there are still lots of things which can be transported even with those restrictions. Not only that, but a tunnel an be built around the tracks, to allow city buildings and roads to run above the railway. Roads would be ideal, And those roads, once built, with on-off ramps spaced according to expected demand based on the terrain, would allow the metro to effectively have the city starting to expand first around those roads which connect people to those stations, and only then in other places. An alternative would be using an approach mixing the netherlands 3-types-of-roads (highway, high-speed local roads, and slower streets parallel to the roads which to connect with even slower streets with housing and offices and shops) with the highway-heavy USA roads (by having a lot more high-speed highways than the netherlands). This would allow vehicles to get from one point to another faster, while also allowing local traffic to be slow. This way, at least the trucks will be mostly off the city streets/roads and mostly onto the highways, for as much as possible. Though that would require a lot of elevated roundabouts, with a bypass lane to the nearest lane going perpendicular to the highway, and the roundabout going the opposite way of a normal highway. So if you drive on the right side of the road, you could get off the highway and onto either a slip lane to the road going to the right, or leave on the right side of the highway and get onto the roundabout which goes clockwise (opposite to the normal direction of travel for a roundabout). Plenty of signs and asphalt markings would be needed to make sure everyone sees how to drive on those roundabouts. This might require more of an investment, but being seen as a public infrastructure, it might be more likely to happen than the high-speed multi-lane railway system.
Yea, that's the plan. So they're building an HSR from Mumbai to Delhi in the next 10 years. Also, they're building an elevated semi-HSR connecting the satellite cities (within 100-150 km) of Delhi (to be completed in the next 5 years). These 2 new systems will be integrated with each other & also with the large Metro system already functional in Delhi.
@@JaiD0427 Awesome! Thanks for sharing! Though, as always, I have to wonder how high-speed and high-density (in terms of travelers) those railways will end up being.
I think you are talking about the RRTS (RapidX) project currently under construction and limited operation in Delhi. Its a semi-high speed metro (160kmph operating speeds) on a dedicated viaduct that connects the suburbs of Delhi with the stations of the ever-expanding Delhi Metro Rail network. The conventional Indian Railways in Delhi is also seeing massive expansion and up-gradation with eventual goal to have 200 kmph speed trains running on tracks that are quadrupled or tripled at least with modern signalling and automatic train collision avoidance systems. On top of it all, a third network of High Speed Rail is also being built on dedicated elevated viaducts in direct cooperation with Japan. Even the rolling stock is the Shinkansen trains. Although, it won't be as expansive as the conventional Railways is. Another change is Delhi's outskirts now having massive warehousing, industrial areas and most importantly: a set of dedicated freight corridors for heavy haul freight trains (grade separated from passenger Railways) and capable of double-stack heavy haul with axle loads upto 32.5 tons/axle. These corridors extend throughout India's most populous Northern Plains and end at few of the most major sea ports of India. So most of the heavy commercial traffic now will stop on the outskirts of Delhi. And then there are the massive expressways that only reach up to the outskirts of the city and then change into a ring, so earlier, vehicles that used to cross from within Delhi if they were just passing by Delhi on a journey between two different cities will now be able to simply drive around Delhi on these Ring Expressways. Given that 70% of all freight in India is carried by roads, and much of it passes through Delhi on its way to its destination just because Delhi lies on the route, these ring-Expressways alone will massively contribute in reducing vehicular congestion within Delhi. And finally, there are plans to revitalize the Yamuna river passing through Delhi, and turning it into a part of the National Waterway network, allowing even more freight loads to be transported to and from Delhi on efficient inland ships. Although I believe this could take some time, given the water scarcity impending.
Hailing from Kolkata, I lived for few months in Delhi. I found that pockets of the city are nice with their unique cultural quirks, like the Tibetian market and other marketplaces, the eclecting mix and the hustling and bustling. The metro was more extensive and more modern. The roads were better. Although I felt it focused less on public transporr(ah, the pre covid era😊), by nighttime you had to scramble to find uber and they would overcharge as there was lack of public transport. You really felt constrained going from pointA to B if you didnt wanna take uber/ola. But I do have fond memory of it, the cosmopolitan vibe and the university areas were great. Thankfully didnt stayed till winter as it can be quite chilly but also very foggy and suffocating. One day I hope to see "Ye Duniya mano jism hai aur Dilli uski jaan" kind of vibe, you know, like Moitra quoted today at parliament.
@@manish1606 apart from sanjay singh aap hasn't sent any good leaders to RS and if they don't come to an understanding with Congress I think BJP will sweep delhi in 2024 as well, because it is the same electorate that votes for BJP in LS that votes for AAP in the assembly
I'm honestly surprised that the Pearl River Delta is NOT the largest city in the world. The massive cities of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan and Macao are practically merged now. For example--their metro systems officially merged into one ENORMOUS metro system sometime in 2018 or 2019. That's a good 45 to 50 million people crammed into a small area. Why is this NOT already considered the biggest city on Earth? It'll take Delhi a good 3 to 4 decades to get to that size. And the Pearl River Delta is STILL growing! Within 20 years it'll probably have a good 70 to 80 million people.
Being indian, and a resident of delhi for more than 10 years, i can say i have the distinct impression that they never really had any overall planning model for delhi, i suspect it was mostly ad-hoc development only guided by a rough vision of the future, but otherwise no concrete land policy or distribution or anything like that. Even today much of delhi and the surrounding regions are either unorganized slums, or just rows on rows of apartment blocks and other commercial real estate, pretty much designed with nothing but profit in my mind. And of course public transportation is severely lacking, so are the roads, and congestion ad pollution and so on. Just because Delhi will soon be the largest city in the world, doesnt mean its actually an advanced industrialized city like tokyo, with the capability to support that large population. And cannot be equally compared as such. much like in many poorer nations around the world, does it really even count if you have a lot of people but you cant actually support them? should slums and shanty towns even be considered as 'urbanized' or developed land? Ultimately india is still not a developed or fully industrialized nation like those in the west or in japan or korea. Sure it has a lot of population, but a large population means little if you are not able to properly support or utilize it.
Chaos does not mean there was not an "overall planning model", just that circumstances made it infeasible to execute the plan. Would a better plan have made a difference or is the culture such that any plan would have been impossible to execute well under the circumstance of such runaway growth?
@@stevengordon3271 There probably were many ideas on how best to plan the development of the city, but i think part of it has to do with the way politics works in india. It's very hard to get any kind of unilateral or decisive action done around here. too many competing interests, or people who simply want to do what's cheapest, or who simply dont care for planning and development as long as they get the votes and support they need to stay in power. Which may have been a reason why there was no strong central authority or planning board that could guide the overall development. But of course this isnt just a localized issue, its a universal issue we can see in many countries around the world. You could apply this question to the entire nation as a whole.
To be honest it is almost impossible to plan for a city that grows 2 times every 2 yrs. There is a limit to urban planning. North India needs to build more cities that are the only solution.
The current metro area population of Delhi in 2022 is 32,066,000, a 2.84% increase from 2021. The metro area population of Delhi in 2021 was 31,181,000, a 2.94% increase from 2020. The metro area population of Delhi in 2020 was 30,291,000, a 3.03% increase from 2019.
The really interesting thing is most of these cities will be rather unfamiliar for a Western, and especially an Anglosphere, audience. There's gonna be numerous cities from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, SE Asia and the Middle East.
I’m from Delhi. And have seen Delhi growing & keep developing since my childhood. Delhi Metro is seriously the best thing happen to us. Delhi is expending and keep accommodating migrants flux from across India. Yes we have a lot of problems to work on and I can say both state & central govt. doing their bit to keep improving it. I have also live in different part of the world and must say, despite many challenges and people living in, Delhi is still doing good!
I've been to New Delhi in 2019 just before corona. I can say that the air pollution was so horrendous that I bought a mask before even leaving the airport. The Metro is really top notch but prob to expensive for the poorest people so it was never really crowded when I road it.
Expensive , Really ? Delhi metro is one of the cheapest, if not the cheapest in the world. Of course it wouldn't be crowded you take a metro in the middle of a weekday. Else, good luck getting in.
@@CanadianHaryanvi17, He specifically said that it is not the cheapest "for the poorest." The PPP of India in comparison to other nations is low, and the GDP per capita of Delhi state is similarly low in comparison to the pricey metro transportation. As a result, we don't perceive our metros as congested, particularly by the underclass.
@@tusharpandey858 There are plenty of people of every class those use metro everyday. I haven't traveled in Delhi Metro during covid. But prior to that it's always fully occupied in morning and evening hours. You can't compare it with London tube or Paris metro which gets occupancy by plethora of tourists during the day. Current price of metro ticket is already heavily subsidized. Money doesn't grow on trees. This socialist crap mindset is why there are these many poor in first place.
Dude. I've seen rather poor folks (street beggars) traveling on Delhi Metro. If the Delhi Metro is expensive for them, then all transit except for cycling or walking is too expensive for them.
As being myself from Himachal Pradesh, living in Chandigarh, i still don't understand why anyone would run towards Delhi or Mumbai when you know it's full of dirt in Air and on Ground.. Money surely is important but that doesn't mean that I'll compromise with the environment that I'm living in.
bhai chandigarh me jaise fresh air mil rahi hai na . entire north india has lot of air pollution ,its just that delhi is highlighted more coz its capital.
I have lived good time in Delhi before moving to Ahmedabad, which is another major city in India. All that can be said is, you can not understand and imbibe the grandeur of Delhi until you live in it. For me personally, that chaos has always been fun. But it's only good if you spend a few months of years there. Ahmedabad is such a refresh fun for me.
@Zaydan Naufal Tokyo has 37 million but it's size is huge,over 5× that of Dhaka..Meanwhile Dhaka has already has 24 million people.. Dhaka's poor management and unplanned areas are liable for this.. Singapore is a dense city/country..But it takes measurements on environment and it's one of the most beautiful cities in the world.. Kualalampur is fairly small city in compare to Dhaka,Jakarta,Tokyo
Delhi has one of the best transit system in the world Which makes it higher for ease of life compared to other metro cities in India. Also the city still has cheaper cost of living compared to places like bangalore
Hi, great to see that you have made an interesting video on Delhi, where I live now and studied Urban Design. There are two things which i noticed needs a little attention. The first one is, the red line (thread) marked around the urban villages is legally and popularly known as a "LAL DORA" area, the term was coined by the villagers during the colonial times. The second thing is, the area which you marked as Hauz Khas village is not the village but rather a mid density residential enclave called Hauz Khas enclave planned during the post independence era, the Hauz Khas village is just next to it, on its north western side.
try to get advisors from China. Relation between India and China is very rough, but certainly China had the same problem a decade or two ago and they solved it well their cities are very ordered despite being largely populated. Could help strengthen partnership between the two asian giants as well.
i dont think there is much of a plan to begin with. Just endless sprawl of either slums, or rows of apartment blocks and commercial real estate, that are their own property developments with gated communities, that are independent of each other. There is barely any central planning to any of it. Mostly just build wherever cheapest i guess.
I really wanted you to talk on this topic for a long time and i am glad that you did it, it's so nice to see my city 0:58 7:25 it was because of COVID not traffic....
Very interesting video! I'd like to see more on Indian cities on topics like: -Why are public transit trains (e.g. Local Trains in Mumbai) so dangerously/hazardously crowded? What steps can the city take to meet the transportation needs of the growing city? -What are the mechanisms behind slum developing and the housing crisis in cities like Mumbai? What urban planning measures can be undertaken to increase housing affordability for migrants to such cities?
Why do some cities' populations get measured by the size of the metro area, whereas others get measured only by the size of the city proper? E.g. Tokyo metro has 37 mil, but the actual city itself is only 13.5 million. But the reports on other cities, like New York, only report the city itself. The metro has 20 million, but all the charts are comparing 8 million to the other metros.
Yeah it’s so weird, because the most populated city with the actual city limit is Shanghai more than 20 millions people or 15 millions, and Tokyo have only 13,5 millions
Delhi is not a city but a province of India and a group of cities, and can be called a metropolitan region. Even more enlarged is the National Capital Region which includes Delhi. India's capital New Delhi is just one city in Delhi.
There's no agreed upon standard of what is and isn't actually a city. The USA calls some things separate cities that where I live would be considered suburbs, but those American cities can also includes rural areas that here we wouldn't usually consider part of the city at all. Just as an example.
i think you misunderstand, the planning you mentioned was done for the central government district only. The rest of the city and most of the outskirts, is just ad-hoc development. Building wherever land is available. i dont think there is much of a plan to begin with. Just endless sprawl of either slums, or rows of apartment blocks and commercial real estate, that are their own property developments with gated communities, that are independent of each other. There is barely any central planning to any of it. Mostly just build wherever cheapest i guess.
and other bad areas are Urban villages.......since response of government was slow......they were the only place where one could and still can find affordable accomodation...
The attractive factor in your videos for me personally is how brief they are, brief and informative. You give us a lot of info fast! That works perfectly for me. Thanks, i really enjoyed this.
Chandigarh is a post independent greenfield city with proper planning whereas Delhi just like Mumbai and Kolkata had the biggest problem of migrants coming from different parts of the country for better opportunities. Satellite cities such as Greater Noida, Navi mumbai and New Kolkata Town have proper planned township much better than Chandigarh. Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata on the other hand will take atleast 50 years to demolish and redevelop again.
I live in Delhi, Janakpuri.. This city is a Unplanned Mess, with Mixed land use every street gas become a Market, Bottlenecking Traffic from 4 Lanes down to 1 Lane !! Im moving to Ansal Palam Vihar now as its nearer to my Factories and is far better potential for Planned Urbanization than Delhi
I grew up in NYC. Not a small town but is no more than a village compared to Delhi and other mega-cities. I visited Mumbai a few years ago, the traffic jams and roads were shocking and I was amazed that any of the infrastructure actually worked at all. I suppose that if there is a will there is a way.
Visit Mumbai again in a couple of years. The sheer amount of change in the infrastructure will leave you picking your jaw up from the floor. Coastal Roads, Mumbai Metro, MTHSL, Navi Mumbai airport, TODs, etc; the word "massive" doesn't even begin to describe the scale of change happening in Mumbai right now. And all undertaken with one sole purpose: De-congestion of the roads.
It will with this too. Beijing has such traffics where u daily get stuck for 5 to 6 hrs. Whereas even in Old Delhi i haven't gotten stuck for more than 40 min in my entire life.
Indonesia have successfully tested the satellite city concept in Jakarta. While Jakarta remains the gravitational center for economic growth, satellite cities like Bogor, Tangerang, Bekasi and Depok have become satellite cities where urbanization can overflow to from Jakarta, and they have been quite successful at it.
You missed the mark on the nearby cities they built as counter magnets. Those are not 100 km away, they are right next to delhi. Noida and Gurugram are the biggest ones. They are not widely known as they are considered part of delhi by most people.
Can you please make a video on the city of Surat, Gujarat - India? It is the fastest growing city in India in terms of economy and the city has seen quite a lot of development in the recent years. Surat is really overshadowed by the other bigger cities.
I’d love some deeper dives into the geography, history, structure and struggles of big cities around the world. This is great, but it’s just whetting my appetite. Maybe a special/series on Nebula?
I was born in and have lived in Delhi for the past 21 years. It is the only city in my opinion, where the buildings get taller the further away from the city center you go. In most cities, city centres (downtown) has the tallest buildings, and the outskirts have suburbs and lower buildings. In Delhi, it is the opposite. There are virtually no highrises in Delhi because the height is restricted to 3 floors. So, when you move out of Delhi to satellite cities like Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram etc. you suddenly are met with wide, well planned road networks and tall highrise residential and commercial buildings. Its really bizzare.
8:30 this is actually a benefit to slums as written by the Indian economist Sanjeev Sanyal. He writes that slums are a benefit as they can cheaply accommodate migrants to a city. The lack of such places make the city expensive for newcomers. Look at NYC or London. China actually said they would want more slums in their cities to increase urbanization. His piece talks more about this.
He did mention that though Gurgaon lacked basic infrastructure when it sprung up.....but thats how economics go......you can't allocate economics like zoning.....Gurgoan is a good example of it.......Planned areas in Delhi never saw that much economic activity as in Gurgoan...
Slums are still only a stopgap solution in my opinion. Only solution is planned mixed use and high-density development. More medium sized skyscrapers, more metro and buses, incentivise people away from using cars.
@@theAraAra yeah.......agree with you.....but i would add skyscrappers can be scraped here...(though there is a TOD project ongoing in Karkarduma)....good density with adequate public infrastructure (parks+transit) is best option......
Ive always thought Tokyo is what Delhi/Mumbai/Large Indian Metro would've become had India turned it's position against pollution and garbage around, as well as implemented better building codes. On the other hand, what I love about Delhi is just that; it's a chaotic, largely unplanned city that was built organically throughout history. People would just show up and start building a house wherever they could fit it, and nobody would've come to stop you. I find the slums to be fascinating architecture and infrastructure, because you can see it was put together by average men creating a new home for themselves and community, rather than by skilled laborers using the most expensive tools and materials.
It's great that they couldn't follow the initial plan. The traffic would only be worse without mixed use developments. Every street or corner has a few shops and street food vendors. The metro is quite useful already and is rapidly expanding. I'm truly jealous of their urban environment as an American who has no choice but to drive everywhere. Well apart from the pollution but that's largely crop stub burning.
The urban environment in Delhi is still not very good. There is so much traffic clogging up the roads that it is hazardous to cross even the smallest roads. People also don't care about road rules and often you will find people driving on the *wrong side of the road*. I'm an Indian, though I do live in the US.
I personally prefer it to all but the oldest US cities. The density makes walking most places reasonable and their recent metro expansion has only helped to connect the various parts of the city. Increasing road capacity doesn't help traffic, this is the classic logical fallacy that lead to many US cities being both completely unwalkable while still requiring 30+ minutes in a car to go anywhere. In an urban environment where everybody needs a car with no other option, traffic isn't better despite having gotten rid of the dense walkable enviroment.
@@maciejszczesny5820 The state of Rajasthan has many timeless architectural sites. The state of Punjab has beautiful farmland stretching as far as the eyes can see, a glimpse into a much simpler life. Just a couple examples, but India is beautiful.
@@maciejszczesny5820 Try not to go to dirty things locals do. Western media showcases that all Indians do the same but trust me most Indians find that disgusting. But tourists do that even after warnings and get sick. Then India's reputation is affected.
one of the main reason is delhi's educational institutes pretty much the best colleges in india are all under delhi university they need to encourage spreading it. Mumbai, Banglalore and delhi are time bombs since so many people keep pouring into them
Thanks for covering Delhi! Really appreciate the urban analysis channels like yours and NotJustBikes which cover Western countries. I would really love to see India focused analysis as it's a completely different ballgame.
I see so many comments about 'ask this or that country to design the city for you!' but honestly, the Indians should do it themselves to suit their needs. They have plenty of examples from all over the world a few mouse clicks away, they don't need to ask others how they do it! Just take the best ideas from all over the world and apply them to your own cities as you seek to accommodate the wishes of the people. It will take years with such a mega city anyway, don't let others decide for you.
Eh, getting someone who actually knows what they're talking about to explain things to you properly, rather than just reading up on a bunch of stuff with whatever random ideas you might have started with as a basis, is probably better... Though yeah, it shouldn't be 'get X to design it for you' so much as 'learn from X, Y, and Z, then design for yourself' (and that's learn what NOT to do, as much as what to do.)
There is, it is called Mumbai. But Mumbai is a coastal city about 1600Kms from Delhi, which for many North India(most populated part of India), don't have enough money to travel to Mumbai. Also living in Mumbai is more expensive, So migrants opt for Delhi, rather than Mumbai.(atleast most of them)
we can't force to anyone here cities and state have competition who gets more investment so as area around delhi border getting more investment so its growing
@@shivendraupadhyay1565 There are gurugram and Noida that are at par with delhi. Problem is that there is no boundary so it's confusing. For eg. A red signal implies that it's gurugram ahead and delhi behind.
Can you do a video on the Canadian city of Toronto? It's not growing as fast as Delhi but it is growing extremely quickly thanks to it's booming economy and is projected to become the 3rd largest city in North America in a few decades after Mexico city and NYC. They have an amazing transit network and have done a really good job at Transit Oriented Development in recent decades, particularly in "downtown" North York and Yonge Eglington.
@@anantpathak2899 dare i say it's one of the best cities in the world for urbanism, especially with its intact streetcar suburbs and Transit Oriented Development.
I used to live in Toronto and I love the way Toronto itself is designed. But the northern suburbs are awful, and damn is it ever hard to live there due to the insane cost of living (housing)
Can’t help but notice, it looks like Dhaka is also projected to see substantial growth to become the 4th largest metro area. Hopefully you will make a video on it some day. Great content from you as always. Keep up the great work
What I'm getting here is that they could really use some American style suburbs with lots of single-family housing. If they went a step further and made it impossible to build anything BUT single-family housing, they'd be golden
Suburbs and single-family housing is just not good enough for India. You should check out @not just bicycles . He very well explains the suburbs is one of the worst way of urban planning.
Great video! Australian cities have been trying to decentralise from its capitals for decades (without much success) - interesting to see similar issues being faced in India. Lots of lessons to be learnt!
For a second I thought you were talking about the refugee crisis of Ukrainians, until I looked at the thumbnail. The techniques that go into making a temporary settlement that might last only weeks, or could need years to be cleared, would be an interesting topic for a future video (though that seems to be mostly avoided in favor of using public buildings and private homes for housing in Ukraine's case, but maybe referring to other crises like Syria). Tent cities require their own infrastructure, after all
They are, but it is a huge challenge to build it at a rate that can accommodate more than 1 million new residents every year let alone catch up with the existing population.
I used to visit my support team in Pune flying via Delhi. It was a dirty congested city, but I always loved spending the weekend a the Park Hotel before heading out to my final destination.
If single family housing is in place like in USA size of Delhi would 5 times more than the present size. 5 times more forest or agricultural area would be lost . Thanks to multistorey buildings for saving green spaces
But the mindset about holding is different in India. Multiple generations typically share a home. When I was the people felr bad for me because I was all alone in an apartment. We always judge from our own perspective, but the view is quite different in other cultures.
I would love for you to make a video about the "green rings" that surround London and other British cities. Despite them blocking efforts to solve the housing crisis and create affordable housing around the cities, British politicians and the public seem determined to maintain them (even though they look less like public parks and more like farmland and vacant space).
Actually, your first phrase applies to London in the 40s... until you said, the near-by cities had a million inhabitants. Still, except for scale, it's basically the same problem.
I've lived in Delhi my whole life and have seen the metro come to life. It was surely a lifesaver from the traffic. I think the metro is one of the biggest feats in the city. It's superbly well maintained and covers all the important points - my home, school, college, workplace. Just walking distance from all my essentials. Because of the ever-increasing population, it just needs more trains and more lines.
Lol Delhi is a slum. You can't walk 200 feet without 20 people trying to hustle you.
@@rogermartinez8606 need more money to spread misinformation
@@rogermartinez8606 don't talk rubbish and spread misinformation unless you have seen it through your eyes. Don't believe CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera they try to portray India lower that's their ideology
@@bmology your point?
@@lisasforehead6043 yes
Imagine you're in charge of planning a fast growing Indian city that's on track to be the biggest city in the world and you propose low density housing LMAO
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Then other cities will absorb it.
@@linuxman7777 so you didn't watch the video, is what you're saying. 🤣
@@gladitsnotme I did, but there has to be some theshold where humans say screw it, I am going to another city this place is too polluted and crowded, I am going to build my own economic opportunity, elsewhere
The planners were influenced by faulty western ideas of a good city. Vast low density housing with strict use regulations. This has happened in Chandigarh as well, it kind of succeeded there because the population was low. India has to think about high density housing with proper services for most of its cities.
Lived in Delhi for 2 months and was super surprised to see how century-old structures were surrounded by normal city life. I cant imagine having to urban plan when there is so much already existing there. Also, I studied a bit on monsoon flooding there. Turns out, much of their municipal tasks are split up among different organizations (for my project, specifically looked at sewage/drainage responsibilities). I think centralizing these responsibilities could make it easier to efficiently plan and develop.
Also, I love their metro system. Better than any in the US I’ve been to.
One of the most surreal of these old/new adjacencies is how the pyramids of gaza egypt are normally photographed with just desert in the background but they are actually at the edge of a city with perfectly "normal" modern architecture.
@@smgg7191 you seem angry?
@@smgg7191 lmao don't be ignorant. Delhi's metro is one of the best in the world
@@Taurus388 Well does crime not coexist with the Metro system? You can get raped on this lovely metro system and since it’s in India the person that assaulted you could easily go on with their lives unbothered and unpunished. Isn’t that stupid? The legal justice system of a country is important when it comes to public transit, because members of the public can assault you and easily get away with it. Is safety of the public not an important factor of public transit? Or are you just too dense to connect the dots…?
I was in Manila once, and I couldn't handle the mind-boggling sensory overflow of this very big city. I cannot imagine how people can live in these megalopolises. I'm very fascinated and terrified at the same time.
India is a Huge Country. Delhi is just a Part of it.
That's like me!
Manila can be hell for commuters. Well it is even hell for those with cars and a driver. At least India, most men don’t need a nose job, so if you like men, India is like hell, but you get to have regular supply of Frozen margarita for only 2 dollars or less. (That being a metaphor).
delhi has some beautiful places too. many riches lives there . delhi is not just imaes shown in this video, despite of most polluted city in the world, delhi is the most greener area in the world
Yes, the intensity is too high for most Westerners and for very few Indians as well, like me. The din is always at a max, 10/10. There is no 6 or 8 there. Thankfully, I never had to live there. I come from the town of Chandigarh , 230 km NW of Delhi. Also, it's sad to see this place a living hell as my ancestors are from the region. (NCR). I like laid back places,,wherever they be. I lived very happily in Midwest of US. Kansas, Missouri.....Delhi is what I would 🏃♂️ 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️ 🏃♀️ away from!
i am from delhi and i live in the "suburb" of NOIDA, as mentioned in the video, due to lack of commercial spaces in delhi, NOIDA rather than being a green leafy suburb with low density housing is probably the most urbanised part of the delhi metropolitan region with extremely high density housing and a lot of corporate offices and commercial spaces. it resembles midtown manhattan more than any suburb in new jersey! and this is true for the "suburbs" of gurgaon, faridabad and ghaziabad as well! and now we're getting a new international airport in NOIDA so i can imagine the level of traffic we'll have in the times to come!
noida sucks ass, zomato drivers get robbed for food. Social culture is terrible, if you want to have a good time with a good crowd, you have to go to south delhi. Good schools are much more rare than in delhi or gurgaon. Better jobs, and generally far better people. Would much rather move back to south delhi or gurgaon, even if Gurgaon is badly planned. It is also definitely more midtown than noida, I say this as a native of delhi who moved to new york.
@@emergencyexit3967 thank you person of New York for unsolicited advice on the city I live and work in and on a topic I didn't even raise! 😅 honestly south delhi, Noida, gurgaon all the people are equally prejudiced and all share the same issues of traffic, pollution, crime etc. So no point in your comparison. And as far as schools go, the system itself is so rotten that a few good schools count for nothing
I personally feel Noida and Gurugram are fit for those who only go home to sleep at night, otherwise they are in their offices only. Not much happening there and the environment isn't that great. I live in West Delhi.
@@ayush1ism south delhi is miles better than gurgaon and noida, fix your car dependency issues first
@@manaspradhan8041 i dont travel by car, i only use public transport! and i find living anywhere in delhi NCR equally good/bad
Urban Land Ceiling Act ruined Delhi and almost killed property rights. Delhi tried to parcel land equally to everyone and tried to ban sales outright. That law was scrapped sometime in the 90s and that's how Haus Khan was able to be gentrified.
Indians cities are a great example of planning and land use policy failures. They actually make for a great case study.
You should consider making a video on Mumbai. That city has its own challenges, it needs both roads and transit.
@Zaydan Naufal Singapore is incredibly well planned
@Zaydan Naufal ummm. You have not experienced property rights in India. It's one of the few places in the world where transfer of property is not recognized as a transaction between private parties. In India, unless your local bureaucracy "validates" the two parties are of sound mind you can't transact it. India has a lot of laws with good intentions but they are applied horribly and often yields poor (often comical) results
Moving away from property rights, a more relevant example is Coastal Regulation Zones Act. It was enacted to protect Mangroves around Mumbai (Coastal regions around India to be more precise). The act, the way it was formulated overnight made several parcels illegal including the govts own facilities like water treatment plants. Decades of capacity upgrades were stuck in court litigations. The end result was rivers in the city became sewers, plastic pollution became rampant in the mangroves.
@@libshastra you clearly a fool ever heard of earthquake , that's why there are laws we didn't had the technology of Japanese at that time
its a small world i guess, both of us follow a many similar channels
Mumbai is crazy, there isn't any single city in the world with as many metro lines simultaneously under construction, IIRC 7 of those are underway.
They seriously tried a low density housing solution to a population growing as fast as Delhi? Smh, what else did they expect other than failure?
What? You just have to spread out faster than people are coming. (dramatic orchestra oomph) Only the light is the speed limit!
Nothing ngl
They had american planners.. 😬
Delhi had settlements near it, while Americans had planned settlements where there was nothing nearby.........you cant just draw perfect grid here in India.......there will always be some village or a structure already existing here.
@@jonnamustonen6751 and now mumbai is a making a costal road project again designed by Americans, serving less than 2% of the population and ruining the sea view 🤦♀️
I am born, brought up in Delhi, and love it to bits. But sadly, it has become unliveable now. The children have reduced lung sizes due to extensive pollution, and a lot of people face respiratory problems. The traffic is super bad, we have had instances when we are just locked up in our general area due to traffic jams on all sides, and it was frightening what would have happened if someone needed to go to the hospital. It is crowded everywhere, and many times we are not able to go to so places where we used frequent, either because of traffic or just plain over-crowding. The food is the best in the world, and I have very fond memories of growing up, but I won't go back unless it is absolutely necessary.
the food is very oily and not healthy at all.
U PPL never wanna use public transport always prefer their own cars bikes...and then cry for traffic jams.. if there is no metro i can understand...ur city has such metro system that u can easily go any part of delhi but still u lazy lads of delhi always took out ur car even a single passenger is there ... Who r u cursing then i just don't understand??
i visited delhi once in 2016. all i remember is SCAMS everywhere.
@@tony-pc4kd oh yeah that's true. Car problem is definitely there. One person in one car. I see this all the time. Atleast I don't drive singularly.
@@tony-pc4kd Instead of talking about the problem, you guys bla bla..., attempt to find a solution. comprehend the reason why the bulk of people are driving by automobile rather than utilizing public transit.
We lack BRTs and need more public buses; moreover, we need safe and distinct bike lanes, and vehicle highways are just too large. Car parking is provided near major markets, although the bulk of Delhi's population lives more than a kilometer from metro stations. Slum remediation requires a high-density housing concept.
I don't know who thought funneling people into satellite cities without reliable good public transport was a good idea.
A number of the satellite cities do have access to the Delhi Metro, including Noida, Greater Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, and Gurugram. Moreover they're currently building high speed commuter rail to cities further out, like Meerut.
there is reliable public transport. the delhi metro serves all the satellite cities, you can also take buses or pay for rikshaws or taxis
@@auggieeast
A single metro line to service cities with over a million people?
Streets filled with all kinds of clutter and garbage, congested with all kinds of vehicles from horse carts to rickshaw's jamming the roads, and with basically no rules or regulations.
Rail lines that are overcapacity, and not well maintained.
And you can forget about 'high speed' rail, its high speed rail only on paper, and likely will never be completed any time soon due to the way things are done in india, politicians dont care for city planning as long as the publicity gets them votes.
We've been hearing about 'high speed rail' for years now, and all sorts of other fantastical projects, all aimed at simply gathering support and votes, but will likely go nowhere or be half-heartedly completed with no actual plan or policy on how to utilize the system properly.
Ultimately if you live in india (as i have lived in delhi for over 10 years), you've grown weary of hearing such things, and have learned not to to take them at face value.
@Zaydan Naufal selama jumlah motor ga dikurangi ya ga bakalan kelar masalah macet jakarta
@@livethefuture2492 i have lived in delhi for 40 yeras, check capacity and frequency of delhi metro , it's most modern and engineering marvel ever built one of the largest in the world in, go to chawri bazar metro station you will know , and no plan of building high speed rail there
I visited New Delhi in 1985, 86, and 87. It was nice enough back then. I haven't been back since then. We used to stay at the Janpath hotel and eat out at Nirula's in Connaught Place.
I prefer going to Cochin, Mysore, Madurai, and Chennai now, because I love Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. The very Southern part of India is where I feel safest and happiest. The people seem calmer and less stressed.
Delhi is a victim of its own success. So many migrated to Delhi that it put immense strain on the civic amenities.
5:42 As soon as I heard 1960's American planners I braced myself for air pollution
Another factor is coal fired power. Brown coal is ultra dirty and ultra cheap.
Obviously cars don't help but it really takes coal to reach such insane levels. (China also has this problem, coal is too cheep and available to not be used to support electrification in these countries while everyone else if freaking out over climate issues(justifiably)).
To me 1960's American traffic planning means terrible congestion and urban highway obsession at the cost of any decent mass transit which would have been far more efficient by basically all metrics.
@@jasonreed7522 and still electricity in Delhi is crazy-expensive.
@@Rahul_G.G. thats just supply and demand, the demand is sky high and they are building more as fast as possible.
Fuel cost is just one aspect of what determines the minimum profitable price a plant can operate at. The business side of the operation determines a cost as function of generation rate for the plant and then every plant submits this to the Independent System Operator who habe the job of telling everyone how much to generate to meet demand. The ISO always picks the next cheapest generator who sets the new "wholesale price" for the grid. If transmission lines into a region are at capacity then only local generation can meet new local demand and the price decouples from the rest of the grid. (Very common in cities on particularly high demand days)
Wholesale price isn't what you pay as a customer, its what your distribution company/utility pays and then they normally offer a fixed rate to the customer. (You can get an unbuffered rate which can save you lots of money but in the case of exeptional circumstances can be very expensive)
For a full explanation the channel Practical Engineering has 2 videos that are very helpful, one on the texas blackout in the icestorm and one on the 2003 blackout of the American northeast caused by Cleveland.
@@jasonreed7522 One problem with green energy is it is too expensive to develop a poor city if not flat out impossible.
I've seen cities that have crazy expensive power due to almost exclusively green power sources stagnate for decades. Absolutely no industry and whatever industry it retains have even declined.
It is easy to champion climate change when you live at a place that has already climbed the value chain but for developing cities, it is a death sentence. You just have no way to compete. The brain drain is the worst part of it as you are losing your future.
@@francisdayon green energy is not too expensive, it can be the cheapest option, especially economic "externalities" are considered. (It cost a factory nothing to polute a river with industrial waste, but that has massive social costs that the government will pay. This is why china stopped importing a bunch of recyclables from the US, the companies profited having sweatshops sort plastic by hand but the health effects were costing China's government big time)
And who says the "developing" world has to climb the tech tree and make all the same mistakes as the developed world. They don't have to use coal and steam engines for hundreds of years, they can import specialty goods like windmills and solar panels. Hell india could start will concentrated solar in the south or the deserts near Pakistan, all that takes is mirrors and molten salt as the heat exchanger with a conventional thermal plant system. They have enough Brain power to have both nukes (weapons) and a space program, they could build nuclear power as an alternative to coal and build hydro in the Himalayas to serve as the battery for they concentrated solar. Upgrade transmission lines enough and they can make different regions capable of supporting eachother fully so you don't need to burn coal locally. (Also natural gas killed coal in the states thanks to fracking so I'm sure india could import nat gas or extract its own to avoid using brown coal, the dirtiest of the coals)
Coal is simply cheap and dirty, unimaginably dirty with long term consequences. (Litterally creating the poor districts in western cities like London because were the smoke from the factories fell only the poor couldn't escape)
I lived in Delhi _ greater Noida.. i think the NCR regions are absorbing some people out of Delhi. There are lot of opportunities in Noida, greater Noida and these places have better planned roads and infrastructure. I think developing such areas next to the border of Delhi is a good approach.
True. Only satellite cities that have more economic activities have worked for distributing the migration burden. Noida and Gurugram are prime example of planned development, has both low and high density housing options.
NCR or legion ?
I think Noida and greater Noida is in UP and not delhi.
@TH-cam Addict NCR is not a political region, it's just an economic region. Saying that Noida is in Delhi is completely wrong.
I think expanding cities while taking over fertile agricultural land is not a great idea. Delhi need dense planning with more high-rises. I mean delhi Is either have placed with no planning hence high-density or suburbs with very low density planing. The city does not even have a single skyscraper for the second largest city in the world
I visited Delhi in 2016 and to an European it is just crazy big and so much is going on in the streets. But the metro was actually amazing! Very modern, guge trains build to mainly stand in and I felt like less crowded than the street :) that was an amazing trip :')
i am from delhi and i have been to about 10 to 12 european countries .....for me your cities are like dreamlands .....honestly comments like these just make us indians feel very emotional ,touched and happy as we are usually looked as dirty and inferior by europeans
@Jupiter Rules no
Love videos like these, especially about the developing world. It’s all too easy for our western self-obsession to obscure one’s interest in what amounts to the majority of the world’s population. It would be great to see an African city like Cape Town or Lagos, or even better: a deep dive on how each country’s unique colonial past is reflected in its urbanism!
There are still serious problems with these cities, it's hardly 'urban' if the half the population is living in slums. And i don't think it should count as the largest city if it cannot support its own population.
And also about 'western-self obsession', being an indian myself, its also equally important not to look at the underdog with rose tinted glasses either. Over-compensation is not good either.
We always need to be balanced and objective in our analysis and viewpoints.
@@sgx9874 I'd say there was a bit of an imbalance between the British Empire and their colonies lol
@@Juan-hv9bi literally every major problem you can list (fr go ahead and list them) in developing countries is rooted in colonial leftovers. just because people are stuck in the vices that were left for them doesnt mean its 'their fault', but it ALSO doesnt mean they are 'helpless'. both points are wrong
@Zaydan Naufal Lagos is far worse than Delhi or any Indian megacities.
@@nzvplc true
I've been to Delhi. On the way into the city at night the highway median is pretty much shoulder to shoulder with people sleeping in places. It's brutally hot and smoggy, like the hottest day in Houston but add 10 degrees, until the monsoon arrives, when temperatures become much more pleasant, but streets flood quickly due to bad drainage. Traffic is insane. On the highway, cars, donkey carts, camel carts share the roadway with cars, and if a cow wanders into Traffic, everything comes to a stop. On the up side, food is awesome, people are mostly friendly and helpful. I really enjoyed my time in India, would like to go back again. My favorite attraction in Delhi was the bird hospital. If you are walking around and see a ridiculous variety of birds flying around, Follow them. The bird hospital runs on charitable contributions, is really an amazing thing to have in the middle of a huge metropolis. My most lasting impression of India is that, the cultural mindset is completely different from ours. They really go with the flow.
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SIR THIS VERY FAKE NEWS PLS DELETE ,ACTUALLY MY INDIA SO FUTURISTIC AND CLEAN . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN INDIA 🤗🇮🇳 THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD , WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗
@@indiasuperclean6969 no actually bangladesh is the cleanest country everyone has toilet (trust me ) and no people dont sit on top of trains
Don't use old stock images , that crowded image was chandini chawk now totally redeveloped open market.
i mean what is he supposed to do go there
You are right but it is not that great now either. He was talking about city in general to talk about urban planning to give a broader wide future view not some stupid street. My uncle shop is in Chandini Chawk, it is still not that good. The cars still enter the place and it is still dirty.
its not much different again. people again made it dirty. problem is the selfish mindset of the people
TH-camrs, and TH-camrs who work with Nebula especially RELY on stock footage, most of which was taken in between 2010-2015.
This is not a problem if the Video that they're making is about a Slow Western that is Alredy Developed, but it becomes a problem when the Video is about a developing country.
I was born in Delhi in 80s. No matter how good or bad things gonna get, I always love to go back there. Pollution level is very bad so is the traffic. Hope great things happen to Delhi
This video was super interesting! We've been talking a lot about how Western Cities are planned, but analysing some of these cities (which are still under planning) and providing a solution is the best use of Urban Planning TH-cam channels
I live in Delhi for my studies. It's a nice place overall. You can go to literally anywhere in the city with metro system. The best metro station i liked is Huaz Khas. It's more than just a station. They have multiple artworks, shops and is just larger than other ones. Tho air quality is the worst.
We can also get KFC in the station.
the video seemed incomplete without so many other aspects of urban planning not even mentioned. I know being a planner in india how hard it is to get data..so appreciate the effort. Kudos!!
A similar thing happens with Istanbul (almost 16 million population officially) in Turkey. Of course, it can't be compared to Delhi, but neighboring provinces like Tekirdağ, and especially Kocaeli are slowly being absorbed by the biggest city in Europe. Government transported many factories in Istanbul to Çorlu-Tekirdağ and Gebze-Kocaeli a few decades ago because Istanbul was too much polluted. The only reason Kocaeli has more than 2 million population is that it is close to Istanbul. Despite being a part of Kocaeli Province, Gebze is connected more to Istanbul than it's to Kocaeli. I live in Istanbul but went to high school in Gebze and many of my friends used to visit Istanbul more than they visited their provincial capital, Izmit.
Normally, Istanbul's population was expected to decrease, because people were sick of crowd, traffic and high prices, but it didn't because lots of Syrian refugees came in. However last year Istanbul's population decreased a little bit, because some people moved to where they were originally from because of the pandemic, but I expect them to return when the pandemic is over.
I lived in Delhi for 5 years for my parents work as a teenager. Went to an American private school. The city though was so wild and it was so busy and populated. It was an interesting experience, and definitely got cultural shock. I learned a lot though. But wild. I honestly think the bad air pollution shortened my life too.
so......what must have been original life expectancy of old people in Delhi?
What all culture shocks did you get?
How did you know your life got shortened ??
Are you alive?
Are you dead already?
overall you love or hate it??
In the book "Seeing Like a State", James C. Scott rails against the High Modernist design ideas of Edwin Luytens, following LeCorbusier's principles of very wide streets radiating from a central point, designed for control rather than organic growth. In effect, the people of the city began using it in "illegal" ways, needing to break free of the stranglehold that the design principles tried to freeze in time. Slums however, despite proper supporting infrastructure, are organically grown, which densify their uses
In the book "Planet of Slums", by Mike Davis, you can see a harrowing account of the scale of these slums, the brutality of the State against them, the economic exploitation by multinationals, the health and environmental hazards.
Honestly, I'm not sure how planners will be able to do something that will stand the test of time and of the many unforeseen needs of the generations that will inherit it.
I guess the towers they are building could be closer, maybe replacing their downtown golf club with high-density towers with proper public transport infrastructure around it, make it almost free for residents of some slums to move there, bulldoze the previous slum land and put high-rises, rince and repeat.
But, that's my outsider's perspective. I'm sure the best would be to ask the people there what they want, mixed with best practices from urban developpers.
Wide streets radiating from a central point isn't the *worst* idea in certain contexts - I think for capital cities, it can make a lot of sense to have some areas that are deliberately made in a more 'grandiose' fashion (and wide avenues / large public parks clustering around government buildings fits that well enough).
But that shouldn't really be extended to where people really are going to live, or expected to be able to plan every area in the city.
That said, the big thing that jumps out at me with how Delhi is presented in this video was how growth far outstripped predictions, along with planning including suburban style sprawl - which is far too low density for the type of growth being seen.
High density towers could help plug an immediate gap in housing, but really it seems like it's a mix of needing more dense housing + better transport. But transport is really tough to do at this scale of growth - I guess just way overbuild for the present and count on that capacity getting filled in later.
@@mattgopack7395 In the video they talk about banning mixed-use areas, which is an incredibly bad idea as it just leads to much more traffic all heading from residential to commercial areas, and in a high density city that's not good
Great points!
ASK PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT? ARE YOU INSANE?!?! 😂
@@neotrinityrakgajane Hi 😊 I was being ironic, because I'm continually amazed at how often big projects like these lack this most basic exercise; figuring out how people actually want to live. And it's insane, because you don't even have to ask them, you can simply use already available data to see which areas of a city are the most popular and most busy in terms of human beings hanging out and doing stuff. I remember being in a museum in Tokyo which showcased massive city planning designs from the second half of the 1900s by some hotshot Japanese architect. I'm not an architect, or even that interested, so I don't remember his name, but I definitely could see why he was such a big deal. The designs were beautiful and intricate and humongous. They were also all of places I would never want to live. And still, to this day, every year we see these large areas being built, designed by some detached architect fapping to his own arguably beautiful drawings instead of getting off his butt and actually go around the city, watching where people hang out, and learning. It's so weird, because it's so easy to see what makes an area great to live in and what doesn't, yet again and again we get another picturesque windy ghetto devoid of life except for the people hiding inside their homes. Basically, if I had to pinpoint what's going wrong, it's got to do with scale. Someone said something about story telling that was something to the effect of, "to tell the big story, you have to focus on the details." I think something similar is going wrong in big building projects; the focus is all too wide, and they forget to narrow in on that one family that's going to live inside that larger frame. Design that life first, then make the big picture support it. But that's just me, and I'm not an architect 😊
One of my current professors is the most well-known urban anthropologist studying Delhi. Dr. Rashmi Sadana. She's a great teacher and provide some good insight into the role that the subway system plays on the lives of women in Delhi.
That sounds very interesting. Would you have any paper of Dr. Rashmi on the topic? I'd love to gain more insight
Love these videos but you have so much to talk about. I'd love to see longer videos. No reason to cut them short and keep it so simple.
Should we get 20 minutes as the standard length from City Beautiful?
It’s an intentional ploy to get people to go to Nebula. He even says at the end he’s got another video on Delhi posted there. Shame they sucked in NJB as well. I love city/urban planning, but now most of the major TH-camrs for it have moved a lot of their content out to Nebula, which I can’t get since I don’t have a credit card, and it’s incredibly frustrating.
Was there in 1980. Nothing was planned. It was an amazing chaos. Not as chaotic as Bombay, but close. I'd like to see it again, but - alas! - I'm too old and poor.
There are more people in this metro than the entire population of California. Wow.
almost as much as canada
More than all of Australia
It is not even the most impressive one. Mumbai metro basically packs the entire population of texas in a 2000 square miles, compared to Delhi's 21000 square miles
@@mvalthegamer2450 mumbai do not have a proper metro so please stop comparing everything about delhi and mumbai, both are imp and great for indian economy in their respect
Pleasantly surprised to see urban villages of Delhi being focused upon. My family hails from one of these urban villages in Delhi and have been in Delhi over 500 years. (Basai Darapur if someone is curious). What was once something to be proud upon is now a major congested, haphazard mess. I still love my village and my city Delhi and hope this redlining etc could help implement some sort of planning.
Thanks for video!
The difference between Chinese urban planning and Indian urban planning is staggering. I hope Delhi and other cities in India can develop that sweet sweet cyberpunk aesthetic
We are in the process brother... We'll soon come up with a high tech metro suburbs ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
City planning happens only in new delhi which is govt district all other districts were just developed randomly us people moved in.
the cities outside delhi's border are well designed like NOIDA and Gurugram
@@Taurus388 do u live in gurugram
how can a city without water supply and sewage system
I live in gurugram and it has water suppy and sweage system
pta nhi kon baat phla rha hai y
Yeah that's why daily there are 5 to 6 hr long traffic jams in Beijing and this is only for delhi and northern plain India. Southern, central, north mountain, eastern and north eastern are pretty well planned. 😑
There is also a Delhi master plan 2041 and many projects like expansion of Delhi metro ,New buses ,Electric rickshaws, EV policy of Delhi gov, and much more. You can cover these on the next video on Delhi.
Delhi made 2 big mistakes
1) get American planners and inspirations from American zoning
2) Urban celing act inspired by Soviet cities.
haha they employed the worst tactics from the two countries which suck at urban planning.
@@srirampatnaik9164 well atleast we are trying to fix it by we first urban celli g act in the 90s and we are heavily focusing on public transit which takes time to build
Non-Aligned Movement could have meant the best characteristics of either Capitalism and Socialism, but often went the opposite way. India is still at the beginning of its story of development, but great things lie ahead, in spite of enormous challenges. I look forward to seeing India become truly great.
What’s wrong with Soviet cities ?
@@theshadowman1398 they are absolutely boring. look at some blocks of housing projects in Ukraine. mind boggling boring.
but at least it's functional. for a country like India following the American model is suicidal.
It's amazing to me that so many people can live in a single place like that
It is depressing
@@jonaspete not everyone had an option to massacre native Americans and steal their land, some had to adjust in the given land they had.
@@jonaspete No, Not at all.
@@jonaspete the food is nice & there's alot of clubs...
@@randomclass4653 that’s sounds pretty nice. How late does the metro run?
they should build more megacities in north India. there's just one metropolitan city serving more than 400 million people in the north while in south india, there are 3 metropolitan cities and Mumbai and Pune are also close by. Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow etc. should become the next Punes and Hyderabads
You don’t “build” cities, they happen due to circumstances and trends. South has bigger cities despite of the fact that north has been looting us for decades.
@@yj9032 by build, I don't mean the government should provide public sector jobs. I meant it should attract investment, build some universities to create an atmosphere of young budding professionals etc.
There are lots of large cities in northern India, including Patna, Ghaziabad, Gurugram, Chandigarh, Agra. Population density particularly of north-western UP and Patna region is very high.
@@yashagrawal88 Agra is not metropolitan even though it gets metro 🤣🤣there is no job there 🤣🤦 aur patna waha ka aadmi bhu aata hai illaz karwane , pura bihar ka bhoj up uthata hai
Lucknow has the capability because it's infrastructure is quite huge for a decade but city lacks job creation , second will be indore and there is no 3 city which can be grown into metropolitan even with infrastructure because metropolitan city creates job
I think the solution to this problem is high-speed high-capacity railways, with direct-connection trains going from one major point to all other major point, while also creating a few other major points around which development would happen because people can live there and get to work in the middle of one of those other major points like in the Delhi area. Not only that, but this can be expanded to even more distant areas, with direct-connection trains on multi-lane railways (like multi-lane roads, but with rail pairs for the trains). The more railway lanes, the more connections to other places there can be, to make sure trains are always in motion, from the moment they leave one station to the moment they arrive at another station. Sure, it might cost more to run a train like that, but people can get from one end of the country to another end of the country much quicker than by airplane, by not having to stop for intermediary stops. Even if the trains have to slow down so other trains have time to get into a station the current train is bypassing or to get out of the station the current train is bypassing and accelerate in front of the current train, with long-enough merging lines and long-enough railway switches, you could still travel very long distances. For example, for a straight-line distance of 1000 km, accelerating at 0.1g (0.98m/s or 3.528 km/h), a weight of 250 tons can be moved in 34 minutes. Add 10 minutes for loading and unloading, and get the distance in half, and you can travel 500 km in an hour or less. This is comparable to, if not faster than, airplanes. Sure, not a very comfortable ride, but very quick and effficient.
I get what you mean but I think affording something like that would not be possible for Indian citizens especially the working class. There are plans for bullet trains in India and I already think it wouldn't be so successful because Ticket would cost the same as flights. I thinking the city will keep on expanding outwards
@@ShashankSingh-cd7ib Unfortunately, the state would need to make it a free public service, at least for a certain amount of travels per person who lives up to a certain distance away from those stations, and maybe tax it some other way, and have a much higher capacity than normal trains. Heck, they could even use 4 tracks per lane instead of 2, to get a lot more people per train, and even be able to fit shipping containers perpendicular to the direction of travel and parallel to the ground, to offset some of that cost by setting up shipping points so businesses also don't need to use cars to transport goods between those stations, while also make the trains more economically viable. In fact, one of those points could be an inland shipping port, to instantly move cargo from ships to that point, and from that point to leave to the rest of the country and especially to those other stations connected to the network. Sure, the cargo would need to not be fragile, but there are still lots of things which can be transported even with those restrictions. Not only that, but a tunnel an be built around the tracks, to allow city buildings and roads to run above the railway. Roads would be ideal, And those roads, once built, with on-off ramps spaced according to expected demand based on the terrain, would allow the metro to effectively have the city starting to expand first around those roads which connect people to those stations, and only then in other places.
An alternative would be using an approach mixing the netherlands 3-types-of-roads (highway, high-speed local roads, and slower streets parallel to the roads which to connect with even slower streets with housing and offices and shops) with the highway-heavy USA roads (by having a lot more high-speed highways than the netherlands). This would allow vehicles to get from one point to another faster, while also allowing local traffic to be slow. This way, at least the trucks will be mostly off the city streets/roads and mostly onto the highways, for as much as possible. Though that would require a lot of elevated roundabouts, with a bypass lane to the nearest lane going perpendicular to the highway, and the roundabout going the opposite way of a normal highway. So if you drive on the right side of the road, you could get off the highway and onto either a slip lane to the road going to the right, or leave on the right side of the highway and get onto the roundabout which goes clockwise (opposite to the normal direction of travel for a roundabout). Plenty of signs and asphalt markings would be needed to make sure everyone sees how to drive on those roundabouts. This might require more of an investment, but being seen as a public infrastructure, it might be more likely to happen than the high-speed multi-lane railway system.
Yea, that's the plan.
So they're building an HSR from Mumbai to Delhi in the next 10 years. Also, they're building an elevated semi-HSR connecting the satellite cities (within 100-150 km) of Delhi (to be completed in the next 5 years).
These 2 new systems will be integrated with each other & also with the large Metro system already functional in Delhi.
@@JaiD0427 Awesome! Thanks for sharing! Though, as always, I have to wonder how high-speed and high-density (in terms of travelers) those railways will end up being.
I think you are talking about the RRTS (RapidX) project currently under construction and limited operation in Delhi. Its a semi-high speed metro (160kmph operating speeds) on a dedicated viaduct that connects the suburbs of Delhi with the stations of the ever-expanding Delhi Metro Rail network.
The conventional Indian Railways in Delhi is also seeing massive expansion and up-gradation with eventual goal to have 200 kmph speed trains running on tracks that are quadrupled or tripled at least with modern signalling and automatic train collision avoidance systems.
On top of it all, a third network of High Speed Rail is also being built on dedicated elevated viaducts in direct cooperation with Japan. Even the rolling stock is the Shinkansen trains. Although, it won't be as expansive as the conventional Railways is.
Another change is Delhi's outskirts now having massive warehousing, industrial areas and most importantly: a set of dedicated freight corridors for heavy haul freight trains (grade separated from passenger Railways) and capable of double-stack heavy haul with axle loads upto 32.5 tons/axle. These corridors extend throughout India's most populous Northern Plains and end at few of the most major sea ports of India. So most of the heavy commercial traffic now will stop on the outskirts of Delhi.
And then there are the massive expressways that only reach up to the outskirts of the city and then change into a ring, so earlier, vehicles that used to cross from within Delhi if they were just passing by Delhi on a journey between two different cities will now be able to simply drive around Delhi on these Ring Expressways. Given that 70% of all freight in India is carried by roads, and much of it passes through Delhi on its way to its destination just because Delhi lies on the route, these ring-Expressways alone will massively contribute in reducing vehicular congestion within Delhi.
And finally, there are plans to revitalize the Yamuna river passing through Delhi, and turning it into a part of the National Waterway network, allowing even more freight loads to be transported to and from Delhi on efficient inland ships. Although I believe this could take some time, given the water scarcity impending.
Hailing from Kolkata, I lived for few months in Delhi. I found that pockets of the city are nice with their unique cultural quirks, like the Tibetian market and other marketplaces, the eclecting mix and the hustling and bustling. The metro was more extensive and more modern. The roads were better. Although I felt it focused less on public transporr(ah, the pre covid era😊), by nighttime you had to scramble to find uber and they would overcharge as there was lack of public transport. You really felt constrained going from pointA to B if you didnt wanna take uber/ola. But I do have fond memory of it, the cosmopolitan vibe and the university areas were great. Thankfully didnt stayed till winter as it can be quite chilly but also very foggy and suffocating.
One day I hope to see "Ye Duniya mano jism hai aur Dilli uski jaan" kind of vibe, you know, like Moitra quoted today at parliament.
but unlike moitra we dont have good leaders in parliament from delhi!
@@ayush1ism sanjay singh is there
And in 2024 I think 6/7 seats will go to aap
@@manish1606 apart from sanjay singh aap hasn't sent any good leaders to RS and if they don't come to an understanding with Congress I think BJP will sweep delhi in 2024 as well, because it is the same electorate that votes for BJP in LS that votes for AAP in the assembly
Winters are best time in Delhi if wr leave pollution issues but that comes when winters start ,
@@ayush1ism if you believe saying good things = good politician , you are as naive as one can get. learn more
I'm honestly surprised that the Pearl River Delta is NOT the largest city in the world. The massive cities of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan and Macao are practically merged now. For example--their metro systems officially merged into one ENORMOUS metro system sometime in 2018 or 2019. That's a good 45 to 50 million people crammed into a small area. Why is this NOT already considered the biggest city on Earth? It'll take Delhi a good 3 to 4 decades to get to that size. And the Pearl River Delta is STILL growing! Within 20 years it'll probably have a good 70 to 80 million people.
Because its a very huge area. Like there are many countries smaller than Pearl river Delta. So It doesnt really qualify as a city.
@@darreldennis7115 Pearl river delta is still smaller than Delhi NCR.
Pearl river delta is 39,000 km²
Delhi NCR is 55,000 km²
True...If Delhi NCR is considered as a city then there is no way that Pearl River region is not.
best guess will be political decisions and divisions i guess?
Jeez, and I thought LA and NY were hell.
Being indian, and a resident of delhi for more than 10 years, i can say i have the distinct impression that they never really had any overall planning model for delhi, i suspect it was mostly ad-hoc development only guided by a rough vision of the future, but otherwise no concrete land policy or distribution or anything like that.
Even today much of delhi and the surrounding regions are either unorganized slums, or just rows on rows of apartment blocks and other commercial real estate, pretty much designed with nothing but profit in my mind.
And of course public transportation is severely lacking, so are the roads, and congestion ad pollution and so on.
Just because Delhi will soon be the largest city in the world, doesnt mean its actually an advanced industrialized city like tokyo, with the capability to support that large population. And cannot be equally compared as such.
much like in many poorer nations around the world, does it really even count if you have a lot of people but you cant actually support them?
should slums and shanty towns even be considered as 'urbanized' or developed land?
Ultimately india is still not a developed or fully industrialized nation like those in the west or in japan or korea.
Sure it has a lot of population, but a large population means little if you are not able to properly support or utilize it.
Chaos does not mean there was not an "overall planning model", just that circumstances made it infeasible to execute the plan. Would a better plan have made a difference or is the culture such that any plan would have been impossible to execute well under the circumstance of such runaway growth?
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There probably were many ideas on how best to plan the development of the city, but i think part of it has to do with the way politics works in india.
It's very hard to get any kind of unilateral or decisive action done around here.
too many competing interests, or people who simply want to do what's cheapest, or who simply dont care for planning and development as long as they get the votes and support they need to stay in power.
Which may have been a reason why there was no strong central authority or planning board that could guide the overall development.
But of course this isnt just a localized issue, its a universal issue we can see in many countries around the world.
You could apply this question to the entire nation as a whole.
Delhi was a ancient city
To be honest it is almost impossible to plan for a city that grows 2 times every 2 yrs. There is a limit to urban planning. North India needs to build more cities that are the only solution.
@@anmolmonga1933 incentivise people to have less children, too.
The current metro area population of Delhi in 2022 is 32,066,000, a 2.84% increase from 2021. The metro area population of Delhi in 2021 was 31,181,000, a 2.94% increase from 2020. The metro area population of Delhi in 2020 was 30,291,000, a 3.03% increase from 2019.
Making a series on some of the largest cities in the world is an interesting idea you should consider
The really interesting thing is most of these cities will be rather unfamiliar for a Western, and especially an Anglosphere, audience. There's gonna be numerous cities from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, SE Asia and the Middle East.
I’m from Delhi. And have seen Delhi growing & keep developing since my childhood. Delhi Metro is seriously the best thing happen to us. Delhi is expending and keep accommodating migrants flux from across India. Yes we have a lot of problems to work on and I can say both state & central govt. doing their bit to keep improving it. I have also live in different part of the world and must say, despite many challenges and people living in, Delhi is still doing good!
I've been to New Delhi in 2019 just before corona. I can say that the air pollution was so horrendous that I bought a mask before even leaving the airport. The Metro is really top notch but prob to expensive for the poorest people so it was never really crowded when I road it.
Expensive , Really ? Delhi metro is one of the cheapest, if not the cheapest in the world. Of course it wouldn't be crowded you take a metro in the middle of a weekday. Else, good luck getting in.
bruh delhi metro is one of the cheapest in the word
@@CanadianHaryanvi17, He specifically said that it is not the cheapest "for the poorest." The PPP of India in comparison to other nations is low, and the GDP per capita of Delhi state is similarly low in comparison to the pricey metro transportation. As a result, we don't perceive our metros as congested, particularly by the underclass.
@@tusharpandey858 There are plenty of people of every class those use metro everyday. I haven't traveled in Delhi Metro during covid. But prior to that it's always fully occupied in morning and evening hours. You can't compare it with London tube or Paris metro which gets occupancy by plethora of tourists during the day. Current price of metro ticket is already heavily subsidized. Money doesn't grow on trees. This socialist crap mindset is why there are these many poor in first place.
Dude. I've seen rather poor folks (street beggars) traveling on Delhi Metro. If the Delhi Metro is expensive for them, then all transit except for cycling or walking is too expensive for them.
As being myself from Himachal Pradesh, living in Chandigarh, i still don't understand why anyone would run towards Delhi or Mumbai when you know it's full of dirt in Air and on Ground.. Money surely is important but that doesn't mean that I'll compromise with the environment that I'm living in.
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bhai chandigarh me jaise fresh air mil rahi hai na . entire north india has lot of air pollution ,its just that delhi is highlighted more coz its capital.
Most migrants who come to Delhi and other big cities from rural India go back to their villages once they have enough money (or not) for a reason.
Chandighar is a awsome place......if you can afford it.......
But everyone does not have the privilege to think like that. These cities have all kinds of jobs so that a person can atleast have basic things.
I have lived good time in Delhi before moving to Ahmedabad, which is another major city in India. All that can be said is, you can not understand and imbibe the grandeur of Delhi until you live in it. For me personally, that chaos has always been fun. But it's only good if you spend a few months of years there. Ahmedabad is such a refresh fun for me.
Make a video on Dhaka..
It's very small compared to other mega cities but has a huge population..It has been ranked first as most unhealthy city..
@Zaydan Naufal Tokyo has 37 million but it's size is huge,over 5× that of Dhaka..Meanwhile Dhaka has already has 24 million people..
Dhaka's poor management and unplanned areas are liable for this..
Singapore is a dense city/country..But it takes measurements on environment and it's one of the most beautiful cities in the world..
Kualalampur is fairly small city in compare to Dhaka,Jakarta,Tokyo
@Zaydan Naufal Barcelona style development is maybe possible in new urban areas arount current city..
@Zaydan Naufal I didn't say they are best..
Tokyo is easily the best
Dhaka is not small by any standards. It's one of the fastest-growing cities in South Asia
@@Ari-ne2yb You didn't got my point..
In terms of size it is smaller that any megacities though it has 6th largest population..
Delhi has one of the best transit system in the world
Which makes it higher for ease of life compared to other metro cities in India. Also the city still has cheaper cost of living compared to places like bangalore
Hi, great to see that you have made an interesting video on Delhi, where I live now and studied Urban Design. There are two things which i noticed needs a little attention. The first one is, the red line (thread) marked around the urban villages is legally and popularly known as a "LAL DORA" area, the term was coined by the villagers during the colonial times. The second thing is, the area which you marked as Hauz Khas village is not the village but rather a mid density residential enclave called Hauz Khas enclave planned during the post independence era, the Hauz Khas village is just next to it, on its north western side.
They need an actual long term plan to get the city in shape.
They do hve dat. Just too vast to explain.
try to get advisors from China. Relation between India and China is very rough, but certainly China had the same problem a decade or two ago and they solved it well their cities are very ordered despite being largely populated. Could help strengthen partnership between the two asian giants as well.
@@kjrom land acquisition is not a problem in china.
@@kjrom I think Japanese planners might be a better idea
i dont think there is much of a plan to begin with.
Just endless sprawl of either slums, or rows of apartment blocks and commercial real estate, that are their own property developments with gated communities, that are independent of each other.
There is barely any central planning to any of it. Mostly just build wherever cheapest i guess.
Just found your channel last night & I have to say you are doing all people a service. Thank you for informing us & educating us.
Delhi should be it's own country with a population that massive!
Umm...but indian cities will obviously more populous as they have 1.39 billion people..
I really wanted you to talk on this topic for a long time and i am glad that you did it, it's so nice to see my city 0:58
7:25 it was because of COVID not traffic....
TH-cam: How do you plan a city for 46 million people?
Indian Government: That's the thing, you don't!
Actually you do
Very interesting video! I'd like to see more on Indian cities on topics like:
-Why are public transit trains (e.g. Local Trains in Mumbai) so dangerously/hazardously crowded? What steps can the city take to meet the transportation needs of the growing city?
-What are the mechanisms behind slum developing and the housing crisis in cities like Mumbai? What urban planning measures can be undertaken to increase housing affordability for migrants to such cities?
Why do some cities' populations get measured by the size of the metro area, whereas others get measured only by the size of the city proper? E.g. Tokyo metro has 37 mil, but the actual city itself is only 13.5 million. But the reports on other cities, like New York, only report the city itself. The metro has 20 million, but all the charts are comparing 8 million to the other metros.
Yes. There needs to be consistent measures for these cities.
Yeah it’s so weird, because the most populated city with the actual city limit is Shanghai more than 20 millions people or 15 millions, and Tokyo have only 13,5 millions
@Zaydan Naufal Yes, but Chongquing is 70% rural with the size of Austria.
Delhi is not a city but a province of India and a group of cities, and can be called a metropolitan region. Even more enlarged is the National Capital Region which includes Delhi. India's capital New Delhi is just one city in Delhi.
There's no agreed upon standard of what is and isn't actually a city. The USA calls some things separate cities that where I live would be considered suburbs, but those American cities can also includes rural areas that here we wouldn't usually consider part of the city at all. Just as an example.
OMG, I'M FASCINATED! I'm from a small town, and honestly, I'm shocked by Delhi proportions. Humans never fail to impress me.
i think you misunderstand, the planning you mentioned was done for the central government district only. The rest of the city and most of the outskirts, is just ad-hoc development. Building wherever land is available.
i dont think there is much of a plan to begin with.
Just endless sprawl of either slums, or rows of apartment blocks and commercial real estate, that are their own property developments with gated communities, that are independent of each other.
There is barely any central planning to any of it. Mostly just build wherever cheapest i guess.
yes there is no planning at all
and other bad areas are Urban villages.......since response of government was slow......they were the only place where one could and still can find affordable accomodation...
@@vardhanarya How can you plan without an open canvas .....
The attractive factor in your videos for me personally is how brief they are, brief and informative. You give us a lot of info fast! That works perfectly for me. Thanks, i really enjoyed this.
The difference is striking when Chandigarh (300kms North) and Delhi are compared.
Chandigarh is a post independent greenfield city with proper planning whereas Delhi just like Mumbai and Kolkata had the biggest problem of migrants coming from different parts of the country for better opportunities. Satellite cities such as Greater Noida, Navi mumbai and New Kolkata Town have proper planned township much better than Chandigarh. Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata on the other hand will take atleast 50 years to demolish and redevelop again.
it's also soulless. amritsar is different on the other hand
I live in Delhi, Janakpuri.. This city is a Unplanned Mess, with Mixed land use every street gas become a Market, Bottlenecking Traffic from 4 Lanes down to 1 Lane !!
Im moving to Ansal Palam Vihar now as its nearer to my Factories and is far better potential for Planned Urbanization than Delhi
I grew up in NYC. Not a small town but is no more than a village compared to Delhi and other mega-cities. I visited Mumbai a few years ago, the traffic jams and roads were shocking and I was amazed that any of the infrastructure actually worked at all. I suppose that if there is a will there is a way.
Visit Mumbai again in a couple of years. The sheer amount of change in the infrastructure will leave you picking your jaw up from the floor. Coastal Roads, Mumbai Metro, MTHSL, Navi Mumbai airport, TODs, etc; the word "massive" doesn't even begin to describe the scale of change happening in Mumbai right now. And all undertaken with one sole purpose: De-congestion of the roads.
Great video. Memories from São Paulo - Brazil.
I still want to see India become a superpower
You grandkids will grow old and die but India still wouldn't be a superpower.
It will with this too. Beijing has such traffics where u daily get stuck for 5 to 6 hrs. Whereas even in Old Delhi i haven't gotten stuck for more than 40 min in my entire life.
Respectfully, the world might be better with more collaboration and fewer superpowers
I don't. I know how it ends once Gandhi arrives in atomic age!
Hopefully
Indonesia have successfully tested the satellite city concept in Jakarta. While Jakarta remains the gravitational center for economic growth, satellite cities like Bogor, Tangerang, Bekasi and Depok have become satellite cities where urbanization can overflow to from Jakarta, and they have been quite successful at it.
There are many satellite cities in rest of India.
You missed the mark on the nearby cities they built as counter magnets. Those are not 100 km away, they are right next to delhi. Noida and Gurugram are the biggest ones. They are not widely known as they are considered part of delhi by most people.
I am glad to finally see the planning challenges of my country on this channel. I hope to see more!
Would love a 40+ min deep dive on this stuff!
Can you please make a video on the city of Surat, Gujarat - India? It is the fastest growing city in India in terms of economy and the city has seen quite a lot of development in the recent years. Surat is really overshadowed by the other bigger cities.
ahem.. Rajkot aswell. /j nothing to see here.
I’d love some deeper dives into the geography, history, structure and struggles of big cities around the world. This is great, but it’s just whetting my appetite.
Maybe a special/series on Nebula?
I was born in and have lived in Delhi for the past 21 years. It is the only city in my opinion, where the buildings get taller the further away from the city center you go. In most cities, city centres (downtown) has the tallest buildings, and the outskirts have suburbs and lower buildings. In Delhi, it is the opposite. There are virtually no highrises in Delhi because the height is restricted to 3 floors. So, when you move out of Delhi to satellite cities like Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram etc. you suddenly are met with wide, well planned road networks and tall highrise residential and commercial buildings. Its really bizzare.
Wasn't the city better earlier?
It's bcos Delhi is also a historical city and has heritage places at its core
fascinating
8:30 this is actually a benefit to slums as written by the Indian economist Sanjeev Sanyal. He writes that slums are a benefit as they can cheaply accommodate migrants to a city. The lack of such places make the city expensive for newcomers. Look at NYC or London. China actually said they would want more slums in their cities to increase urbanization. His piece talks more about this.
He did mention that though Gurgaon lacked basic infrastructure when it sprung up.....but thats how economics go......you can't allocate economics like zoning.....Gurgoan is a good example of it.......Planned areas in Delhi never saw that much economic activity as in Gurgoan...
Slums are still only a stopgap solution in my opinion. Only solution is planned mixed use and high-density development. More medium sized skyscrapers, more metro and buses, incentivise people away from using cars.
@@theAraAra yeah.......agree with you.....but i would add skyscrappers can be scraped here...(though there is a TOD project ongoing in Karkarduma)....good density with adequate public infrastructure (parks+transit) is best option......
Ive always thought Tokyo is what Delhi/Mumbai/Large Indian Metro would've become had India turned it's position against pollution and garbage around, as well as implemented better building codes.
On the other hand, what I love about Delhi is just that; it's a chaotic, largely unplanned city that was built organically throughout history. People would just show up and start building a house wherever they could fit it, and nobody would've come to stop you. I find the slums to be fascinating architecture and infrastructure, because you can see it was put together by average men creating a new home for themselves and community, rather than by skilled laborers using the most expensive tools and materials.
It's great that they couldn't follow the initial plan. The traffic would only be worse without mixed use developments. Every street or corner has a few shops and street food vendors. The metro is quite useful already and is rapidly expanding. I'm truly jealous of their urban environment as an American who has no choice but to drive everywhere. Well apart from the pollution but that's largely crop stub burning.
The urban environment in Delhi is still not very good. There is so much traffic clogging up the roads that it is hazardous to cross even the smallest roads. People also don't care about road rules and often you will find people driving on the *wrong side of the road*. I'm an Indian, though I do live in the US.
I personally prefer it to all but the oldest US cities. The density makes walking most places reasonable and their recent metro expansion has only helped to connect the various parts of the city. Increasing road capacity doesn't help traffic, this is the classic logical fallacy that lead to many US cities being both completely unwalkable while still requiring 30+ minutes in a car to go anywhere. In an urban environment where everybody needs a car with no other option, traffic isn't better despite having gotten rid of the dense walkable enviroment.
one lifetime is not enough to explore beauty of delhi... cheers from Indonesia
This video made me want to go to New Delhi! Thanks
@@smgg7191 do you have any recommendations?
@@maciejszczesny5820 The state of Rajasthan has many timeless architectural sites. The state of Punjab has beautiful farmland stretching as far as the eyes can see, a glimpse into a much simpler life. Just a couple examples, but India is beautiful.
@@smgg7191 thanks!
@@maciejszczesny5820 My pleasure, have a wonderful day.
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Try not to go to dirty things locals do. Western media showcases that all Indians do the same but trust me most Indians find that disgusting. But tourists do that even after warnings and get sick. Then India's reputation is affected.
Wow. Just mind-blowing that you can have so many in one area.
one of the main reason is delhi's educational institutes pretty much the best colleges in india are all under delhi university they need to encourage spreading it. Mumbai, Banglalore and delhi are time bombs since so many people keep pouring into them
Delhi and India are so interesting, I really want to travel there ❤️🇮🇳
History, culture, diversity, lung cancer Delhi have so much for you
Thanks for covering Delhi! Really appreciate the urban analysis channels like yours and NotJustBikes which cover Western countries. I would really love to see India focused analysis as it's a completely different ballgame.
I'm from near Delhi & i love this video. love it when you always upload.
Do you live in Gurgaon?
Do you also love the oppressive, disgusting acts done to minorities in Delhi too? How about the insanely high rape statistics?
@@smgg7191 and they should make toilet policy right now. There are human feces and cow dungs in many corners.
@@smgg7191 and which country are from?
@@HA_Hojlund nope , in Noida.
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YES SIR
Please don't stop making videos. Your content is amazing!
I see so many comments about 'ask this or that country to design the city for you!' but honestly, the Indians should do it themselves to suit their needs. They have plenty of examples from all over the world a few mouse clicks away, they don't need to ask others how they do it! Just take the best ideas from all over the world and apply them to your own cities as you seek to accommodate the wishes of the people. It will take years with such a mega city anyway, don't let others decide for you.
Eh, getting someone who actually knows what they're talking about to explain things to you properly, rather than just reading up on a bunch of stuff with whatever random ideas you might have started with as a basis, is probably better... Though yeah, it shouldn't be 'get X to design it for you' so much as 'learn from X, Y, and Z, then design for yourself' (and that's learn what NOT to do, as much as what to do.)
Beautifull. My Vlog is about Japan N India most. Thanks for the support
Mind-blowing to think that Delhi alone has larger population by 2 million than the entirety of Ukraine (before the war).
The thumbnail is from Paharganj neighborhood. It's the main tourist zone for budget travelers.
I think instead of developing many cities around Dheli, they should choose one or two to rival Dheli´s development and be as atractive as Dheli.
There is, it is called Mumbai. But Mumbai is a coastal city about 1600Kms from Delhi, which for many North India(most populated part of India), don't have enough money to travel to Mumbai. Also living in Mumbai is more expensive, So migrants opt for Delhi, rather than Mumbai.(atleast most of them)
we can't force to anyone here cities and state have competition who gets more investment so as area around delhi border getting more investment so its growing
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😆😆😆. Btw first time seeing someone with same name
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There are gurugram and Noida that are at par with delhi. Problem is that there is no boundary so it's confusing. For eg. A red signal implies that it's gurugram ahead and delhi behind.
What rival dude India has many big megacities like Mumbai Bangalore kolkata chennai
Fascinating. A lot I didn't know about a city I thought I knew.
Can you PLEASE do MUMBAI next? I wanna learn the same way.
Can you do a video on the Canadian city of Toronto? It's not growing as fast as Delhi but it is growing extremely quickly thanks to it's booming economy and is projected to become the 3rd largest city in North America in a few decades after Mexico city and NYC. They have an amazing transit network and have done a really good job at Transit Oriented Development in recent decades, particularly in "downtown" North York and Yonge Eglington.
I feel like resident Torontonian RMTransit have covered Toronto fairly thoroughly, at least on the transit side.
@@mfaizsyahmi another transit enthusiast , i see .
Toronto deserves more recognition its doing far better than any American city in terms of urbanism
@@anantpathak2899 dare i say it's one of the best cities in the world for urbanism, especially with its intact streetcar suburbs and Transit Oriented Development.
I used to live in Toronto and I love the way Toronto itself is designed. But the northern suburbs are awful, and damn is it ever hard to live there due to the insane cost of living (housing)
Can’t help but notice, it looks like Dhaka is also projected to see substantial growth to become the 4th largest metro area. Hopefully you will make a video on it some day. Great content from you as always. Keep up the great work
What I'm getting here is that they could really use some American style suburbs with lots of single-family housing. If they went a step further and made it impossible to build anything BUT single-family housing, they'd be golden
Suburbs and single-family housing is just not good enough for India. You should check out @not just bicycles . He very well explains the suburbs is one of the worst way of urban planning.
@@axsh970 It took me awhile to figure out too, but I'm 90% sure he was joking.
This much sarcasm in a comment should be illegal.
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Great video! Australian cities have been trying to decentralise from its capitals for decades (without much success) - interesting to see similar issues being faced in India. Lots of lessons to be learnt!
I went on their subway and probably the best, it’s so organized and color coordinated.
For a second I thought you were talking about the refugee crisis of Ukrainians, until I looked at the thumbnail. The techniques that go into making a temporary settlement that might last only weeks, or could need years to be cleared, would be an interesting topic for a future video (though that seems to be mostly avoided in favor of using public buildings and private homes for housing in Ukraine's case, but maybe referring to other crises like Syria). Tent cities require their own infrastructure, after all
It's like the city is being built while it's being planned, and by the time the plan is finished, it's already 10 years outdated.
Hope they can build a really good transit system while they're at it
They r already.
it already exists
They are, but it is a huge challenge to build it at a rate that can accommodate more than 1 million new residents every year let alone catch up with the existing population.
A system of bus lanes is absent in Delhi. There are local trains and metros but the metros are not eco-friendly and don't go everywhere obviously.
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Metros are eco friendly.
I used to visit my support team in Pune flying via Delhi. It was a dirty congested city, but I always loved spending the weekend a the Park Hotel before heading out to my final destination.
If single family housing is in place like in USA size of Delhi would 5 times more than the present size.
5 times more forest or agricultural area would be lost .
Thanks to multistorey buildings for saving green spaces
But the mindset about holding is different in India. Multiple generations typically share a home. When I was the people felr bad for me because I was all alone in an apartment. We always judge from our own perspective, but the view is quite different in other cultures.
I would love for you to make a video about the "green rings" that surround London and other British cities. Despite them blocking efforts to solve the housing crisis and create affordable housing around the cities, British politicians and the public seem determined to maintain them (even though they look less like public parks and more like farmland and vacant space).
I love that you covered this city. Can you do more capital cities?
Actually, your first phrase applies to London in the 40s... until you said, the near-by cities had a million inhabitants. Still, except for scale, it's basically the same problem.