Cept, LSE students hold workshop on the ambitious project. Vendor friendly streets, among other things, are needed, they say.
When the young minds of Cept University and London School of Economics (LSE) completed their week-long project on Friday they, almost in unison, highlighted how people's activities that exist around the riverfront have not been incorporated into the Sabarmati Riverfront developm
ent project.
"Basic issues like key buildings Tagore Hall, NID and Gandhi Ashram have been considered when the project commenced. However, the settlements lying in-between these structures have not been addressed yet. We want the project commissioners to have a diffused edge with these settlements, rather than a hard or rigid edge", LSE student, Danizer Ibrahim, said.
CEPT student Rajeev Malagi added, "We saw a lot of public spaces and on analysing their characteristics in connection with that of the riverfront project, we realised how it has failed to consider easy and smooth accessibility."
Partners Rachele Pacifici (LSE) and Kenny Joy (Cept) were rather upset on the absence of a wider access to the ancient key centre place, Bhadra Fort. Said Joy, "There is currently a pedestrian access but what we need is a wider access." Pacifici added that a mutual relationship of benefits should also be built between the riverfront and the old city.
These students also pressed upon the fact that vendor friendly streets should be implemented into the project, for people who have been living around the project for ages and have been earning their bread and butter there.
On the other side, the Vadaj settlement has been walled from the project thereby showing how stakeholders have not been involved in the project, commented partners, Samhitha BS (Cept) and Julia Day (LSE). Both also said how the authorities have prioritised the project over pedestrians and other settlements, which should be changed.
"Lot more of the city is affected by the project, but looking at the ongoing work it seems more like a blurring movement into the future. The project is not adequately accommodating the city it is being built upon, which is quite worrying", informed, partners Adriana Young (LSE) and Sreedevi Anand (Cept).
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