Cities today are looked upon as problems and issues, where a non-coordinated approach of various agencies to evolve rigid guidelines and definite policies have succumbed to the ever changing facet of the city itself as a "Process" and at no point of time as a "Product". The concept of minimalism is rightly justified as the present need to achieve a desirable and sustainable city life through minimum quantitative impositions.

The urban web, so complex to understand, should be aptly looked upon analyzing profoundly into the roots of the issues and intervening minimally to evolve flexible tools to deal with the changing manifests of advancement of humankind in various aspects comprised within a city.

Humankind's ability in conquests has ignited since long, his impudence to strive against the unseemly task of consuming nature's resources to suffice to its demands. The prejudice in deriving innovative techniques to experiment the validity of interventions has relinquished to the aptitude of humankind in mediating between nature and technology.

Inevitably though, the idea here is to explore into methods equable to the resources as well as the fluctuating demands. It was simplicity that humans had always desired for. Everything man hunted for was a search to invent and discover tools to make life simpler. What made the boon to turn out into blight was the imbalance between the rate of births and deaths.

The order by which humankind exists today has been transformed into a more superficial understanding of simplicity. It has become necessary to avoid misinterpreting the implausible and allow the changing future mold its own " change".

The "Less" you intervene, the "More" flexible shall be the prospects in evaluating its equity.

ABIT-Piloo Mody College of Architecture of India
Sanjadhi Chatterjee

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01/01/2006

Sanjadhi Chatterjee

research

Urban Policy > Urban environment > Urban renewal

Urban restructuring