Research on ‘Aims & Objectives of Smart City Mangalore’: Exhibition on September 10 & 11

Research on ‘Aims & Objectives of Smart City Mangalore’: Exhibition on September 10 & 11

September 10:A team of students from Welsh School of Architecture (WSA), Cardiff University has carried out a research on the aims and objectives of Smart City Mangalore.
The team of 10 students along with Dr Shibu Raman of WSA and Prof Arunava Dasgupta of School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi, were in the city between November 2018 and January 2019 to carry out the research. The team will hold an exhibition on findings of a research they carried at Mini Town Hall here on September 10 and 11. Mohammed Nazeer, Mangalore Smart City Limited (MSCL) managing director in-charge, said the exhibition will be open for the public on September 11 from 10 am up to 6 pm.

The research was followed by studios developing design proposal to address the challenges identified during the study trip. These research and proposals were intended to complement and feed into the Mangalore Smart City proposal. The team has worked with all main stakeholders of the Mangalore Smart City project and the main focus was on the area based development schemes the Mangalore Smart City Limited proposed.
Shibu Raman said a proposal to develop a partnership with Cardiff University to achieve its Smart City ambitions was submitted the Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) in 2017. MCC commissioner Mohammed Nazeer said said Cardiff University’s proposal to develop a partnership will be considered after studying their reports.