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With examples, assess how Smart City initiatives are transforming the traditional morphology of Indian towns.

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  • Settlements

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Morphology is the geographer's most precise name for the city's shape — in M.R.G. Conzen's tradition, the townscape produced by plots, streets and buildings layered over time. Indian towns entered the Smart Cities Mission (SCM, 2015-2025) bearing morphologies that were largely concentric, sacred-core, and colonial in origin, and the mission set out to rebuild them…

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  • The morphological baseline: the Indian town the mission inherited
  • The smart morphologies being built: five transformations
  • 1. From concentric core to polycentric structure
  • 2. Linear and corridor-based expansion through smart mobility
  • 3. Digital infrastructure and the post-modern networked morphology
  • 4. Slum redevelopment and verticalisation
  • …and 5 more sections, with a conclusion
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