AGILE URBAN SYMBIOSIS: STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF HOSUR AS A RESILIENT SATELLITE CITY FOR BENGALURU, INDIA
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https://doi.org/10.21837/pm.v23i36.1727Keywords:
Transformation, Agile City, Organic Solidarity, Reimagine, ContingentAbstract
Urban environments exhibit mounting complexity, yet traditional centralized planning methodologies struggle adapting to rapid transformations. An agile approach prioritizes iterative, experimental interventions reconciling short-term necessities and long-term resilience. This paper investigates agile adaptation's potential calibrating secondary municipalities like Hosur, India into sustainable ancillary settlements for major metropoles including Bengaluru. Utilizing Durkheim's organic solidarity concept, diverse, interdependent urban collectives foster social cohesion while enabling flexibility. Through limited pilot initiatives, collaborative governance, and scenario analyses, municipal bureaucracies can nimbly confront uncertainty and evade lock-in to rigid developmental trajectories. Hosur's proximity to Bengaluru engenders opportunities for developing sustainable, habitable auxiliary urban capacity, contingent on reimagining inclusive urban design and infrastructure augmenting resilience, accessibility, and quality of life. This manifests a novel iteration of engineered organic solidarity between municipalities. Though situated in different states, the potential for a symbiotic relationship between Hosur and Bengaluru is contingent on effective intergovernmental collaboration between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Adopting an agile paradigm, civic governments can implement adaptive governance addressing immediate needs while expanding prospective options. This empowers equitable enhancement of resilience and sustainability.
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