"Promoting Urban Vitality to Overcome Urban Failures in Kochi City (Southwest India)" The world, especially Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, is experiencing a massive wave of urbanization. Despite this, it is mostly taking place in the absence of urban planning, with even those municipalities that seek to do so frequently failing to effectively implement them or care for the needs of the majority. As a result, cities are congested, filthy, environmentally unfriendly, and disorganized, jeopardizing citizens' health and happiness. We do, however, have a chance to change that. Over the next 20 years, the world will build as much as has ever been built in terms of sustainable urban development and accompanying infrastructure.