How do you plan for 46 million people? 

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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.

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

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

@@amiyavatsa 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…?

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!

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 🤦‍♀️

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

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)

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

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.

@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.

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

Delhi is a victim of its own success. So many migrated to Delhi that it put immense strain on the civic amenities.

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

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@@indiasuperclean6969 no actually bangladesh is the cleanest country everyone has toilet (trust me ) and no people dont sit on top of trains

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.

@RU-vid 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

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

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 RU-vidrs 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.

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

RU-vidrs, and RU-vidrs 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.

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 😊

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??

We can also get KFC in the station.

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

@@amiyavatsa 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. 😑

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

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.

That sounds very interesting. Would you have any paper of Dr. Rashmi on the topic? I'd love to gain more insight

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.

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.

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?

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

@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..

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.

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

Actually you do

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.

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.

Umm...but indian cities will obviously more populous as they have 1.39 billion people..

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.

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.

Job

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.

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.

@@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.

@@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.

Wasn't the city better earlier?

It's bcos Delhi is also a historical city and has heritage places at its core

fascinating

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

YES SIR

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)

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.

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?

@@FernandoTorresFan_ nope , in Noida.

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

@Esh 😆😆😆. Btw first time seeing someone with same name

@@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.

What rival dude India has many big megacities like Mumbai Bangalore kolkata chennai

ahem.. Rajkot aswell. /j nothing to see here.

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 .....

There are many satellite cities in rest of India.

History, culture, diversity, lung cancer Delhi have so much for you

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......

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.

@@yashagrawal88 Metros are eco friendly.