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Designing Mega Delta Interactions

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Indian and Chinese urbanization is rich with possibility for global urban design theory and practice because the village city systems in India and China offer a reevaluation of what we consider a city to be and how design is to be engaged within it. The mix of urban and rural has very different definitions in India and China, which again are different than those in the United States and Europe. This chapter, which is paired with a drawing set, is a study of this urban form in order to support better India–China interactions and to question the reproduction of unsustainable heterogeneous mixes globally. In the context of the rapid urban transition of today it is important to imagine ways that an inclusive, but not totalizing, regional outlook can support action against environmental unsustainability. This chapter is a contribution toward this goal.

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Acknowledgements

Thank you to Malgorzata Osinska and Shiladitya Basu for their fieldwork assistance in Shaoxing and Kolkata, respectively. Thank you to Colin MacFadyen and Mikaela Kvan for their excellent assistance in creating the patch drawings. Thank you to Li Ling and Lei Xu for introducing me to Shaoxing. Some material in this publication is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DEB-1027188.

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  1. School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Shikui Dong

  2. Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India

    Jayanta Bandyopadhyay

  3. Centre for the Study of Geopolitics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

    Sanjay Chaturvedi

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Marshall, V. (2017). Designing Mega Delta Interactions. In: Dong, S., Bandyopadhyay, J., Chaturvedi, S. (eds) Environmental Sustainability from the Himalayas to the Oceans. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44037-8_9

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