Smart Global Megacities : Collaborative Research: Chennai, Kochi-kannur

This book, the second volume, highlights 7 out of a total of about 36 megacities in the World which by definition have 10 million inhabitants. The cities/chapters presented in this book are based on recent advance such as the wide use of ICT, IOT, e-Governance, e-Democracy, smart economy and flattening and acceleration of the world that is taking place in recent times as reported by 3 times Pulitzer Prize Winner Thomas Friedman. It therefor departs from other ideologies where only a certain megacity qualifies for the title of smart global megacities while in reality every megacity can, and presents how smart global megacities can be created. 

Professor T. M. Vinod Kumar have 45 years of professional experience and had specialized in Urban and Regional Planning, Urban and Regional Infrastructure, Urban Environmental Management, Application of GIS in Urban Planning, Models  in Planning , Urban Design and Smart Cities. He has vast consultancy experience all over India on Urban and Rural Development, Infrastructure, Tourism, Health Care and in Malaysia on New Town Planning and Development, City Centre and Housing Planning and Structure Plan. He has worked in Bhutan, China, Pakistan, Nepal and India for Energy for Mountain Development Program of International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development as Regional Program Coordinator. Academically he has worked in the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi as Professor, Head of Department Urban Planning, Head of Centre for Analysis and Systems Studies, Head Centre for Urban Studies and finally Dean of Studies of School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He also worked as Planner-Engineer with the Ford Foundation, India. He was Visiting Professor at Bandung Institute of Technology Indonesia, and now in National Institute of Technology, Calicut. He is Author of many books and journal articles and Project Manager for many consulting projects in India and abroad.