Mar 2005

Jean-Philippe Lestang of SCE Creocean, a French urban planning organization in the private sector, has been in India for the past four years working on public projects. His team first helped set up a Geographic Information System for Bangalore’s water supply and sewerage system. He is now helping to put together a new Comprehensive Development Plan for the city. Lestang shares with Sujit John of The Times of India his vision for urban renewal in India.

It went completely unnoticed, even in Trivandrum. Touted by the Swadeshi Science Movement as a ‘global eco summit’, it drew an amazing confluence of some of the best minds in the country working on how you can make the planet and your city a lot more liveable.