ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter overviews the book and indicates that greenery was encouraged in the process of urbanisation that evolved into an environmentally suitable infrastructural build–up, including an efficient network of roads, streets, and waterworks. Modern town planning in India began in the colonial Madras city. Once the city was declared safe in 1761, resident Europeans began to move out of the Fort. They began to build the garden houses in the spacious avenues formed from the lands of the suburban villages that were integrated later into the city. The growth and development activities became faster once the remaining threat to the city was removed at the end of 1782 with the death of invading Hyder. The number of large gardens increased to more than 500 while each house, however small, had maintained some plants or other. The stately public buildings were surrounded by rows of tall trees. Thus, Madras turned into a happy and healthy green garden city by the turn of the 18th century. Its environment was enriched by the policies of the English EIC rulers who promoted the wealth and health of the people, increasing the efficiency of their productive powers as well as the standards of their general activities.
