Abstract
Delhi is the capital city of India and among the largest urban agglomeration in the world. Due to rapid urbanization, the city possesses serious urban complications and challenges in managing urban growth and augmentation of city infrastructure which severely influences the quality of life. The quality of life in Delhi depends on its urban strategies and implementation towards the level of availability, accessibility and quality of built infrastructure. Quality of life is a complicated network of diversity and dynamism of multiple components. Hence it becomes imperative to study the assessment of quality of life indicator in the built environment as a tool for understanding and addressing the city level challenges. The purpose of this paper is to examine the various worldwide indicators used for assessing quality of life in built environment and to understand its various dimension as well as attributes (NIUA 2018). The paper develops comparative matrix of quality of life indicators of various organization and highlights indicators which are directly linked to the built environment. Further, this review paper investigates urban planning trends and strategies that altered and enhanced the quality of life in the built environment of Delhi. The investigation is done by exploring all three Master Plans of Delhi 1962, 2001, 2021. The study focused on macro-level issues in Delhi. Furthermore, the mapping of quality of life indicators has been done in the form of compiled matrix which comprehensively evaluates the adopted planning strategies in Delhi. The paper also suggests various planning strategies for sustainable development in Delhi. Finally, the paper calls for a need of regressive and robust strategies which are required to boost social, psychological and economic quality of life indicators in Delhi. The findings of the paper are directly applicable to planning strategies to improve the quality of life in the built environment of Delhi.
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