Smart Nashik: Pilgrimage, Industry, Technology

This Storymap is part of our wider research project on Learning from Small Cities, and reports on Nashik, India.

Nashik is a city of 1.4m population and third largest city in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. It has long been known as a site of Hindu pilgrimage that hosts the Kumbh Mela every twelve years - a huge congregation of devotees by the banks of the river Godavari. In recent times it has also come to be known as the 'wine capital' of India, due to the growing wine economy in its western outskirts.

The inclusion of Nashik into India's 100 Smart City Mission marks a crucial moment in the city's imagination of reconciling traditional and modern elements of its identity. In this storymap report we present the lessons from Nashik through the themes of imagining, governing, and living urban futures.

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