{"id":437012,"date":"2021-09-20T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T05:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=437012"},"modified":"2021-09-20T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T05:35:41","slug":"old-indian-cities-were-not-designed-for-todays-mobility-says-wri-india-ceo-op-agarwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/old-indian-cities-were-not-designed-for-todays-mobility-says-wri-india-ceo-op-agarwal\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Indian cities were not designed for today\u2019s mobility, says WRI India CEO, OP Agarwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cities offer agglomeration economies, thereby enabling more economic activities, better education, better healthcare and, overall, a better quality of life. This attracts people to cities in search of jobs and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s urban population, which stood at 371 million in 2011 is projected to grow to about 820 million in 2051. This is indeed a major demographic transformation. But urban population growth takes place in two broad ways:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities offer agglomeration economies, thereby enabling more economic activities, better education, better healthcare and, overall, a better quality of life. This attracts people to cities in search of jobs and livelihoods. India\u2019s urban population, which stood at 371 million in 2011 is projected to grow to about 820 million in 2051. This is indeed a major demographic transformation. But urban population growth takes place in two broad ways:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}