| urban spaces
THE STORY OF A THOUSAND PARKS
REVIVAL OF THE BBMP PARKS OF BENGALURU
Preetanshi Singh & Shantesh Kelvekar
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| Bengaluru, known as the Garden City, has its iconic Cubbon Park and Lalbagh covering less than 4% of its green spaces. Nearly 75% are neighborhood parks developed by BBMP, with over 1,000 such parks contributing to the green space of this garden city. Reading Grounds reproposes the BBMP’s template to enhance these parks, reclaiming the green spaces effectively.
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It was 2021, just after the lockdown. As we took a stroll through a park in Bangalore, we wondered how this landscape would have been about a three decades ago. The park that we were taking a leisure stroll through was one of the over thousand such parks maintained by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike or BBMP – the administrative body responsible for civic amenities and some infrastructural assets of the Greater Bangalore metropolitan area. We wondered, if these parks form a substantial proportion of green cover of Bengaluru City, then shouldn’t Bengaluru be called a park city instead of a garden city? What is the distinction between a park and a garden, anyway?
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| editorial
HISTORIES, LEGACIES & EMERGING LANDSCAPES
| legacies
LEGACIES OF URBANISM AND TEACHING
BOOK REVIEW: CITIES, CITIZENS, CLASSROOMS AND BEYOND
Review by Meghal Arya
BRIDGING ARCHITECTURE, NATURE AND PEOPLE
TRIBUTE: CHRISTOPHER CHARLES BENNINGER
Varsha Gavandi
IN PURSUIT OF MEANING
TRIBUTE: RANJIT SABIKHI
Sachin Jain
A GARDEN CITY CHRONICLE: LALBAGH
BOOK REVIEW: BANGALORE’S LALBAGH |
A CHRONICLE OF THE GARDEN AND THE CITY
Review by Seema Mundoli
| landscape & architecture
SUSTAINABILITY AND SIMPLICITY
Padmaja Pradhan
SPACES THAT INSPIRE, NURTURE AND ENDURE
Ranjan Daniel
| urban spaces
THE STORY OF A THOUSAND PARKS
REVIVAL OF THE BBMP PARKS OF BENGALURU
Preetanshi Singh & Shantesh Kelvekar
ECO RESTORATION OF LAKES
ENHANCING THE BLUE GREEN NETWORK OF THE CITY | COIMBATORE
Oasis Designs Inc., New Delhi
BKC SCULPTURE PLAZA
BANDRA, MUMBAI
Hemali Landscape Studio, Mumbai
NEPEAN GREENS
RECLAIMING INCLUSIONS: A DEMOCRATIC AND SUSTAINABLE URBAN HAVEN | MUMBAI
Compartment S4, Mumbai
THE RAVINE PARK
GODREJ RIVERGREENS | PUNE
Studio POD + Enviroscape
RUINSCAPE
LANDSCAPE FOR A MICROBREWERY | BENGALURU
VSLA, Bengaluru
| informal
DESIGNING A MULTISPECIES CITY
STRAY DOGS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
Ananya Jain
RECLAIMING LANDSCAPE
COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND THE MANY LIVES OF KOLIWADA, DHARAVIKareena Kochery & Samidha Patil
| infrastructure & technology
BIOPHILIC DESIGN & CITIES
ENHANCING HUMAN LIVING THROUGH NATURE-INSPIRED, MULTISENSORY ENVIRONMENTS
Mahalakshmi Karnad
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