Forget ‘smart’ new cities; India needs old ones to be less dumb

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has grand designs to build 100 futuristic 'smart' cities in India, but as this week's devastating flooding in Chennai shows, fixing today's accident-prone metropolises appears to be the more pressing task. Locals are in no doubt as...

by Nagpur Today | Published 9 years ago
By Nagpur Today On Friday, December 4th, 2015

Forget ‘smart’ new cities; India needs old ones to be less dumb

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has grand designs to build 100 futuristic 'smart' cities in India, but as this week's devastating flooding in Chennai shows, fixing today's accident-prone metropolises appears to be the more pressing task. Locals are in no doubt as...