Sustainable Urban Planning and Smart City Concept in Haryana

ABSTRACT

The aim of the present paper is to focus the Sustainable Urban Development or the Smart Cities in relation to Haryana in present Scenario. Sustainability can be defined as the practice of reserving resources for future generation without any harm to the nature and other components. In the recent years, Haryana has seen a natural progression in its development story. As the big villages turning into towns, and towns transforming into cities. But it's the time for the state to transform its cities into smart and sustainable cities for the smart urbanization. Though urbanization brings a lot of challenges that can act as a barrier to growth of urbanization or the smart cities. The people move to urban centers in such of jobs and employments and hopefully the better life. Urbanization is change of residence which is geographically expressed as mobility or migration resulted by a way of life called urbanism. It is the proven fact, that the trend has a straight correlation with growth.