TA: Vidhi ShahExploring Urban Regeneration: Unpacking the City Limits
Amongst the various goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, SDG 11 ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’ aims to achieve sustainable mobility, multimodal connectivity, and accessibility to public transport in cities. The studio will address this goal by exploring urban regeneration based on transit-oriented development strategies. Through the application of a few principles of Transit Oriented Development (TOD), the studio prioritises approaches 7.5 (multimodal integration) and 7.7 (street-oriented buildings and vibrant public spaces) of the National TOD Policy (MoHUA, n.d.) for multimodal transport integration at various transit edge conditions.
The main aim is to develop master plan framework ideas for urban regeneration through the design of urban commons alongside transit corridors. In this age of rapid urbanization and land crunch, the studio acts as an incentive to contemplate the idea of the commons such as public sports facilities, marketplace, waterfront, and CBD. The outcome will be a framework plan with mixed-use street-oriented buildings along the transit corridors, and details with universal accessibility to transit stations, improved connectivity and parking, as well as pedestrian and NMT infrastructure, thereby creating vibrant public spaces and urban amenities.
