Can India's Skyline Grow Taller?
India has the second highest GDP in all of Asia. Yet its buildings are lowest in terms of height and number. Tall buildings are defined as buildings taller than 150 meters. In comparison to Hong Kong's 657 tall buildings and Shenzen's 510 tall buildings, Mumbai has just over 100 tall buildings. With a large population of 1.2 billion and just 2.4% of the world's land cover, can India afford to have sprawling cities? Can we not condense our cities into high rises? Can going vertical ensure, greener and more convenient cities? Watch #TheUrbanAgendaShow with Manisha Natarajan, where we explore solutions to a large population, it's housing, sustainability and whether high rise buildings is the answer, with industry experts : Hafeez Contractor - Proprietor Architect Hafeez Contractor, Anshuman Magazine - Chairman & CEO, CBRE India, SEA & MENA, and Maheep Singh Thapar - MD, ADAPT Technologies & Consultancy Services India.
