I think this particular aspect should be picked-up by other countries that are developing/building new cities. I grew up in a town Neyveli, India. This is a planned city with neat right angling roads with lots and lots of trees! The speciality of this town/city is no-one can buy a land/property and the whole city is local body controlled. (I don't know if this has changed in recent times). I lived in a 'E' type house for my whole Neyveli life. Though we had a choice to move to newly built posh residential apartments, we never wanted to. Why? our 'E' type house had 13 mango, 5 coconut, 2 neem trees and a lemon, guava, orange and jack fruit tree each. Apart from these we had lots of crotons, climbers etc etc. It would look like a mini forest if we went out on vacation etc... After my Father retired and we left Neyveli, the house went onto another employee's lease, who built a forecourt, chopped off the play area and not sure what happened to those trees...
Anyways these days People seldom respect 'Nature' and are just interested only in their welfare - so why a sudden thought? I recently visited Birmingham Balaji Temple @ Dudley. The temple tower in picture is the outermost tower of the temple.
If you notice closely, you would find curtains hanging - yes this temple tower hosts the residential apartments for priests!!! That's an idea. I am not sure back home if we would agree to such a design. Would we?
