Intrusive landscapes. Sustainable Bangalore through green infrastructure

India is in a major phase of urbanisation. No matter which figures and statistics we select, the urban population growth projections are incredible. It apperas that india is on the fasttrack towards devoloped from developing but is it a right one?is the nation losing the plot when it comes to sustainable devolopment in its blind race to catchup with the western world? Rapid economic & urban growth has brought many benefits to India but at the same time the environment has suffered extensively.The nation today houses 6 of the top ten polluting cities in the world . airpollution itself is responsible for 1.4 million deaths annually.The 2015 paris climate conference saw the country’s leaders publicly striking a hard line on many of the most divisive issues in climate policy defendng a principle that developed countries should have more stringent responsibilities than their developing counterparts—a concept known as “differentiation”.As much as righteous this may sound, it is impossible to rule out a sense of negligence involved in the statement -an underlying tone suggesting ‘let’s focus on economic devolopment today and save the enviornment another day’ especially when it comes from a nation that houses 1 in 6th of the world population. It is clear that urbanisation is inevitable and India needs to develop and improve its urban infrastructure and governance in order to increase productivity and to evolve itself into a dominant power in world economy. It is also clear that climate change & enviornmental impacts due to urbanisation is also real and it is of prime importance to strike a balance between the two for sustainable growth and collective well being of its poplulation.This project bases itself on the underlying idea that that any attempt of rejuvenation of the urban enviornment is beyond the scope of preventive measures alone and requires careful employment of certain cure measures . The project aims at investigating the possibilities & potential of a new urban green infrastructure within modern indian cities .How the green infrastructure can effectively be used as a cure for the enviornment making use of other control methods like ‘increased dispersion’ & ‘increased deposition rates’. This system will generate itself as a new urban landscape affecting the aesthtics and general morphology of the city and at same time acting as an efficient urban pollutant filter yielding rapid and sustained improvements in urban enviornment and quality of life. This urban system also serves as a unifying characteristic to an urban form which otherwise presents itself as a collage of multiple timelines, typologies, cultures, and other socio economic factors. The project is developed in the city of Bangalore located in the south of india. The city is the fourth largest metropolitan in India and is undergoing rapid econmic , socio cultural and urban reforms and has a staggering urban polulation growth of 60% over the past decade due to its booming I.T industry.Recent I.I.S.C ( indian institute of science) studies on the growth pattern of bangalore draws conclusions that if the city follows its current growth rate , it maybe unlivable in five years. It is in this alarming context the project finds its relevance and point of departure.