Are you like me? 6:00 am and your eyes get stuck to switch-off the alarm clock. It’s a struggle for me to leave my bed early to start-off my journey and travel hours in the Delhi Metro every day. It’s early, its tiring and most of the time it is exhausting for me. May be your early is different or may be the same but I am a kind who is always deprived of sleep. Half of my energy gets drained as I travel the long distance to my work place. Till the time I reach office I am worn out to the desire to live, work and enjoy all the hullabaloo of this Urban City. And a slice of my creativity gets vanished away while getting my way out. It’s now an everyday story.
I know it’s not just my tale but of many working and struggling in this not so easy world. We find our desired jobs but sometimes not at the desired locations. There are places and people, who are at an ease and they actually walk to their work places in few minutes or so. And ‘walking’ as we all know is a best way to stay fit and healthy. Some studies have suggested that to avoid obesity, brisk walk is enough than any other form of exercise. Or someday when you feel like taking a nap, you can just walk to your home for a break and come back energized to the work again. Moreover, it saves a little part of your fortune and time. Isn’t it amazing, hitting many targets with a single bullet.
‘Walk-to-Work’ was initiated by the increasing demand of techies seeking residence in localities nearest to their work location. To save their time and money while remaining focused & productive. In cities like Mumbai, Delhi, NCR, Bangalore, Pune, where work culture is effectively deep-seated, citizens commute every day in large numbers. And the congestion is a must-to-see during peak hours. Therefore, to eliminate the traveling fatigue, they usually prefer housing primarily in the locations nearer to their work places. Keeping in mind the jamming on roads and in public transports, growing working population, rapid rise in number of IT Business that are mostly located in peripheral areas of urban cities; real estate developers come up with housing catchments in large numbers to meet this demand. Moving towards peripheral areas from the centers of the cities, the price too goes down and living spaces gets bigger and better.
Real estate brands are buzzing with walk-to-work concept by relentlessly launching commercial cum residential projects or well-planned housing units in close proximity to IT hubs in most cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, Gurgaon. Artha developers has also introduced an start-up city called Artha Emprasa – a future ready city especially for Bangaloreons. This property caters 5,000 co-housing living spaces and 5,000 co-working office spaces with all the other top-notch civic amenities.
This culture has added another concept to the real estate era, be it commercial or residential it has added economic growth to the city and its people. Cities like New York, and Tokyo instigated this concept previously. With escalating IT sector Housing projects are being planned nearest to the commercial building complexes with respect to the public transports. This has actually instigated the demand for better and well-constructed infrastructure facilities because for any development in real estate needs to be conveniently connected to roads, highways, civic amenities to be a game changer.
