creator Suthar, Bhumika advisor Schipporeit, George The purpose of this thesis is to develop an ideal environment for developing new cities, that are not just green and clean but also self-sustainable. Current cities in world supports great infrastructure and accommodates approximately 6-7 Million people. According to UN, the population growth in next 15 years would be 10-15 million people will be living in the cities and that would increase loads on existing cities infrastructure. To avoid these inevitable circumstances we need new sustainable cities. In last two decades rapid urbanization and industrialization has caused indelible effects on our ecosystem. This thesis will provide in-depth insight on current urban problems and present a solution in form of new sustainable city. A holistic approach has been taken towards developing a new city at Dahej in Gujarat, India, which will be a prototype for new sustainable community development in future. It focuses on creating a perfect balance between environmental, social and economic sustainability. This new city will provide quality of life and environment. This thesis is a sincere approach to provide a strategic solution for post-carbon world and qualitative phenomena of the sustainable low-carbon future. Submitted by Liana Khananashvili (khananashvili@iit.edu) on 2013-11-21T21:01:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 The Final Thesis_Bhumika.pdf: 11671677 bytes, checksum: 7ba787295e67649eecf35e7b281ed766 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-21T21:01:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 The Final Thesis_Bhumika.pdf: 11671677 bytes, checksum: 7ba787295e67649eecf35e7b281ed766 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07 M.S. in Architecture, July 2013 2013 2013-07 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3159 en Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access ARCH / Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department