LED 2016 Group I Landscape Democracy Challenge 3
PICTURE BELOW THE FLYOVER
| Place name | DR: KITCHLU CHOWNK FLYOVER | |
| Location | AMRITSAR | |
| Country | INDIA | |
| Author | STUTI SAREEN | |
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Rationale: Why have you chosen this case for the landscape and democracy seminar?
Existences of public spaces in cities are essentials for social interactions to take place, fostering creation of sustainable, safe and liveable cities. Although public spaces are often designed for certain activities, existence of unplanned spaces seemed interwoven in the cityscape, some in the form of „leftover spaces‟, including under the flyovers and bridges, which offers abundance of opportunities. This case of Kitchlu Chowk flyover in the city Amritsar,India is meant to connect two sides of a gap, to bring them together, but as in many cases these flyovers in the urban settlement often act quite intentionally as barriers because the space beneath them is so problematic. The place is left unused and overgrown with weeds, or to give it up for some perfunctory use, like parking or are ofetn prone to best cities for shelering anti social activities or informal encroachments. Instead of dividing neighbourhoods, the elevated highway in Amritsar can serve as a foci for the city. Hereby a constructive, democratic attempt is required to review activities that can be initiated under flyovers by its local community.
Representation of your observations
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Solutions or Potentials in other parts of the country
Foreign Solutions
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Reflection
Major challenges for changing the situation
- The major challenge lies in the hand of the local government and the planning commission for the city to control the situation in an most appropriate way which can be proved to be increasing healthy community spaces in the neighborhood. Never the less this place belongs to public and only because it has no definition so far it is used or say 'misused' by the homeless people and some anti social elements of the community. Fortunately we could also see the space being used as a shelter for the commuters, para transit vehicle drivers (In Indian context it is rickshaw puller, autorikshaw pullers etc.) and by two wheel drivers but in a non organized informal way. this space under the flyovers have been a shelter to the homeless and needy in the city
What could be a starting point for democractically-based change?
- Please add approx. 150 words in essay style
References
- Opportunity in Leftover Spaces: Activities under the flyovers of Kuala Lumpur - Nurulhusna Qamaruz-Zaman*, Zalina Samadi, Nik Farhanah Nik Azhari, Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies (cE-Bs) Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Malaysia
- http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1723985/hong-kongs-creative-use-space-under-flyovers-draws-eyes-world
- http://www.goldentempleamritsar.org/amritsar-travel-guide,-golden-temple-amritsar-tourist-guide.php
- https://maps.here.com/?map=31.64566,74.85798,16,terrain
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