Hetvee Panchal

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Pune is a city made of small and big ‘cultural nodes’. These are junction spaces around a temple, a sitting kiosk, a reading library, a tree and its plinth. I call them cultural nodes because the city’s many social activities take place at these nodes. An attempt is made to reclaim street edges from vehicles by providing wider, paved and raised pedestrian routes and creating community spaces to enhance the usage and relevance of public spaces in highly dense urban fabrics.   These community spaces consist of elements like temples, kattas, benches, reading spaces bringing them into wider, denser primary streets.