World City - future city?

摘要

Famed for its auto industry, India's Detroit has a population of five million - and rising. Economic reforms two decades ago have seen the middle class explode. Chennai's clogged freeways testify to this unprecedented socio-economic shift. So do the growing number of gated new townships springing up alongside. But one of them is rather different. Mahindra World City sets out to take the gated community concept - safe, separate, exclusive - and give it a sustainability spin. A "self-sustaining island of excellence", no less, was the mandate given to the architects by the man behind the idea, Arun Nanda, former chairman of real estate developer Mahindra Lifespaces (part of the Mahindra and Mahindra conglomerate).