Socio-Cultural Harmonic Human Settlements and Urbanization

About the Book

Societies were formed in order to give man an opportunity to maximize and enjoy the fruits of individual successes and fulfillment of individual self-goals, where man started to live in families, neighborhoods, and communities, which then transformed into social setups. Scientific advancements and invention of currencies made this possible for man to produce and exchange goods and other commodities in huge quantities to fulfill the human desires and accomplish goals. This gave rise to large numbers of production and commercial centers to produce and trade commodities and other products. Nationalism and globalization added new dimensions to human settlements and related issues and problems At this point in history, human dwellings became vast, and societies grew into huge urban areas, losing their meaning of being societies and their very essential and basic components got mixed up in disorderly manners, thus causing tremendous amount of energies wasted, as well as the fabric of human-to-human and human-to-nature relations torn apart, causing human beings denied happiness and various types of psychological and mental pains and stresses Socio-Cultural Harmonic Human Settlements and Urban Planning can solve this issue, because this type of urban planning is based on social and cultural aspects and elements of human living. As urban domain is the action ground of societies, therefore, urban areas must be created based on the basic principles on which societies have evolved. All a man does in a society is the social activity; each and every social activity has a specific type or related required social energy level; hence, all social activities must be classified based on the above mentioned principle. These classified social activities must be assigned to specific social activity hubs. These hubs must be placed spatially in a harmonic fashion. This is the only way human settlements may have the much lost happiness returned back and also optimal social energy consumption without any negative social impacts.

About the Author

The author is an engineer with a master’s degree from USA during his stays in USA in 1990s. He was born and raised in an urban setup of a developing country, where he witnessed classes of human settlements based on their financial and social fortunes and status, where he watched haphazard and chaotic sprawling of slums and posh areas for poor and elites, with unhappiness and social and psychological issues and stresses prevailing. He also observed loss of tremendous amount of social energies while dwelling in such urban areas for social activities because of non-uniform, non-harmonic and unplanned urban constructions and developments The author has visited countless cities and towns throughout the world and has been researching the way these cities were designed and built, the driving forces and factors behind their evolution and the shapes taken by mega cities over a period of time, the problems being faced by their residents, and the loss of happiness due to inability to enjoy the fruits of their individual successes, and the basic reasons behind this whole phenomena. Based on intensive and extensive research, he came to the conclusion that the solution to many contemporary human settlement problems must lie in the very basic foundations and reasons regarding the willingness of human beings to come together and establish a society under social contract During the last several years, he has authored books on social issues. He is now revealing his research and findings regarding human settlements with new ideas and approaches that may change the landscape of the future human settlements and urban developments of the world and return the very happiness and peace, which was lost during the Industrial Revolution, to human dwellings and settlements throughout the under-developed, developing and developed countries “Only Socio-Cultural Harmonic Human Settlements approach in urban development can cause evolution of Sane Societies” Nadim Ahmed