Trying to manage the territory, as global challenge

Trying to manage the territory, as global challenge

In the past, urban areas grew usually near the trade routes , rivers , or ports . Today cities , we want it or not , arise with surprising speed and often uncontrollable . Other times , cities arise through a careful planning .

For centuries, urban settlements have evolved slowly , usually located near the shopping streets , rivers and harbors . Components of their strong infrastructure , such as buildings , roads , bridges , water , and electricity , as well as soft infrastructure such as governance , policing , schools , and health care , are developed in parallel and in accordance with the rates development of their societies agrarian or industrial .

And this era continues . Now , while millions of people to abandon subsistence farming towns and the information age , the unprecedented scale of urban development pace , makes it essential for private sector efforts to address and coordinate the creation and expansion of new cities .

To understand how to approach optimal urban development , let's face birth and development history of the two cities , the city of Gurgaon near Delhi in India , an example of how the mess of unplanned urban development brings disabilities, with other city , the Phu My Hung in Vietnam .

Town near Phu My Hung Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam , reflects the result of deliberate development and coordinated . These cities are comparable in size ( about 20,000 acres ) and in population . Both have grown from scratch . They were built entirely empty space , from the standpoint of urban Vacant .

In a span of two decades, cities grew and every now accommodates approximately one million inhabitants .

This is the way that hundreds of other cities will take 30 years to come , while the urban population expanded strongly .

Gurgaon has been promoted greatly spekulativisht by real estate developers , with little attention to thorough planning and a little investment in roads , water and electricity .

As a result , its landscape today is a mish-mash of spectacular buildings , large areas populated by cows empty dhedhitë , low dilapidated buildings that housed many stray and slum . Most of the users, the well put water from the soil through individual wells . Traffic and smog intoxicating , are legendary . Electricity is very weak and uncertain , as virtually every commercial building , regularly rely on expensive diesel generators and polluting .

Is it true that investors receive capital invested quickly , but long-term prospects are grim . Local traffic , problems with water pollution problems seem intractable. It is very difficult to build and properly equipped roads and water infrastructure behind it . The whole business citywide plan developed without a specific financial , engineering and technology without the use of resources to expand .

Phu My Hung ( also known as Saigon South ) was promoted by industrialists , who in the long run , had access " to build and to think ." They had a long-term master plan that included financing and construction of a power plant that supplied the powerful Ho Chi Minh City and the entire city within Phu My Hung . In addition , the area around the city depends on central water supply , no cleaning system and wastewater treatment and a central highway that is designed to allow for growth , in line with the development of the city and the whole area .

Developers , in the design and construction of the city , had a national agenda and building a long-term orientation in accordance with value creation .

Financial strength of engineering involving investors and tax incentives . A number of independent projects in the city , are financed by external debt and equity investors with different risk profiles . Through technology , was conducted and kordinua power supply , water , transport , internet and network communication systems added feature of enrichment resources.

Today the city is clean , green and orderly ; estate values ​​patundshmetë city are among the highest in emerging Asia . Its parks and waterways are weekend destinations for surrounding towns .

It's hard to imagine a future urban population of 500 million or more new towns built in Gurgaon model .

Phu My Hung model , developed deep thinking , with a long-term orientation and help the world where private actors in creating efficient solutions for water, energy , etc. , can and should be repeated .

For each request , capital and technologies exist . What is needed now is the foresight of investors and businesses . There are more and more opportunities for the private sector to do more Fikas and competitive .

* Magazine " Havard Business Review " July - August 2013