India's Urban Planning: Rethinking 'Decongestion' and Density

Imagine cities are like busy classrooms.

Instead of trying to make the classroom empty, the best cities have a lot of people but also have good supplies like desks and water fountains.

Some people think the way to fix city problems is to spread everyone out.

But this makes things like buses and water pipes more expensive.

Now, some places like Uttar Pradesh are trying a new idea: let everyone live closer together but build more stuff like parks and roads.

This should make things better and cheaper for everyone, like having more room in the classroom and better equipment.