Abstract

Due to its coastal location and the effects of climate change, Chennai is prone to natural hazards, mainly flooding, droughts, storm surges, high temperatures, and urban heat island effect. Consequently, it requires urgent improvements to reach resilience, thus innovative design, technology, and policies must be promoted, in order to connect successfully the physical and the social aspect of the community.

The Chenn-IT, is an experimental, visionary, innovative, and resilient urban development meant to improve the current situation of Chennai and its citizens. It has a strong connection to the worldwide discussions about sustainable urban mobility & the influences of the digitization for our future cities. It envisions a comprehensive (multi-phases) program that includes mobility, technology, infrastructure improvement and non-formal settlements upgrading as core pillars of intervention, all of this with a strong social responsibility sense and working in close dialogue with the local community. This is a practical approach intended to intersect demands on physical, cultural and economic levels.

The resilience development scheme introduced in 2019 to Chennai municipality in order to create a new vision for the city, characterized by modernity, innovation, sustainability, and affordability. The aim was to market Chennai as a global city to attract new investment, technologies and new opportunities. Now in 2050, after the notable success for the resilience development scheme, Chennai achieved a progressive level of high-tech, sustainable transportation means, lower pollution and CO2 emissions, cutting-edge technological hub, innovative water and waste management plan, and improved housing and living conditions by downsizing the unemployment rates, achieving high quality of education, and community

participation involvement.

The economical growth brought to the city by Chenn-IT ensures sustainable prosperity, which is regarded as an important element in the discussion about urtban resilience.

Chenn-IT's reflects, with imagination, innovation, vision and contemporary spirit, the future challenges of our cities, and understands the overall concept as an interdisciplinary developing economic engine that is the basis for any sustainable development of the city.