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URBAN DESIGN

Taj Ganj Urban Development project:

Streets as Connectors

n India, heritage is perceived as a disparate urban edges that are viewing points make up the value
valuable resource and hence the commercial, institutional, parks, additions to this area.
approach to urban redevelopment bazaars, old city fabrics and slums
in old city areas has been based and thus present new perspectives of Street as space...a spine
Isingularly on this premise. It is the city that emerge from the multiple The active ‘streets as connectors’
inherited but cannot be ‘consumed’ layers that have been created over time. align visitors to the ethos of the
and therefore must be handed over- It proposes a coherent but non- ordinary people as heirs to the cultural
preferably with enrichment, to future uniform urban design along stretches legacy along with the Taj. Like all roads,
generations. Taj Ganj is a four centuries leading to it, giving priority to they lead to it; but more importantly
old district. Once an integral part of non-motorised mobility through a through this, begin urban networking
the monument complex, sharing the radical change in the visual texture and eventually they weave the fabric of
peripheral skyline with the Taj Mahal. of the place. Urban interventions at the entire city of Agra.
The Taj Ganj Urban redevelopment specific nodes such as the Kutta park, The street emerging from the East
project attempts to sew together a pavilion or two, pause spots, and Gate is textured in cobble of Red

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