 The topic of our deliberations now is the inclusive city And I think that's appropriate because cities are about people everything. We've been talking about ultimately leads to people and We are going to try and join some of the dots in this in this session. I think Gautam and myself as co-chairs we're going to keep our Interventions quite short to try and give some more time to audience participation at the end But we've got a packed agenda. I just wanted to say one thing And that is we've been talking about Inclusive cities for a very very long time But I'm very optimistic because I think the way we've been talking about it has changed in 1997 I edited a book called a city for all and In that book I was reminded by Simon Goosa from Lagos that in this collection which Followed Habitat 2 in Istanbul. I talked about the relationship between people in cities and cities both physical cities and governance as And he reminded me of this collision collusion and accommodation When we had those conversations though back at Habitat 2 in 1996 we were talking past each other the Social people were talking to social people the infrastructure to infrastructure and so on The effort at gender mainstreaming which was very very deep at that time Was one of the first efforts to be inclusive within the broader framework And I think as Sue Parnell has pointed out in some of her work that Gender activity in the urban space was one of the first ways of making the debate more inclusive So what we have here is the collision That has been very palpable, but I also think Very very Progressive because we at least talking to each other now and so the nature of the debate to which I would strongly Observe that urban age has played a strong part in over the years and the various conferences has Been a big step towards inclusion. So that's enough from us. I'm going to call first of all on Rahul Mahatra who is going to kick off the discussion go ahead Rahul on Designing inclusivity and we are going to talk in this first section on The physical environment and how that plays a role in inclusion