Green Bye Laws : Bye laws used by development authorities under the Green scrutiny. A comparative study of a typical built fabric in Delhi NCR with Case study of Naya bans, an urban village in Noida

Abstract

Bye laws are the guidelines for urbanization in India. The policy vision behind bye laws creates equal opportunity for land ownership, within a development authority. This opportunity is projected through bye laws as per plot sizes and is regulated per unit area of land through restrictions on FAR, ground cover, parking, height restrictions and fire safety. Per capita, density and per square feet is the basis and it is regulated through circle rates. This basis must now change to Green. Urban is not about an individual building. It is about a group of buildings. Buildings when put together can benefit from each other. Mutual shading and air passages could help not just the building, but also make open spaces more usable. Bye laws continuously shaping groups of buildings, henceforth creating an urban, could become a tool for Green urbanization. Buildings and open spaces between them done with an intention to create green urbanization, would mean devising bye laws which could be separate for each plot, each block. and thus with variable rates and opportunity. This will give us an urban template which is integrated towards more Green and with a vision for the group of buildings. This new green-urban through the interdependence of buildings as a mass and not as individual plots could give cues to understanding traditional settlements. This paper explores and analyses a part of a traditional settlement with another in the planned area of Noida.