Venture Ville | From Gamtals to Innovation Districts

Tanvi Garg

UD4006

This project envisions Ghuma village as a prototype for transforming urban villages into vibrant startup hubs. By leveraging low-cost spaces, strategic connectivity, and local networks, it proposes a spatial and policy framework that supports entrepreneurship through adaptive reuse, plot amalgamation, and hybrid live-work corridors. Key interventions include startup spines, co-working retrofits, innovation plazas, and flexible leasing models. The approach bridges the gap between informal village fabric and formal urban systems, enabling a low-barrier, high-opportunity ecosystem. With scalable incentives and institutional support, the model offers a replicable strategy for embedding economic vitality into other urban villages across Ahmedabad.

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How can we transform the Urban Villages and plug a new role ?

Addressing the need for clustered startup ecosystem and Stagnated urban village economy

Understanding the pilot site of Bopal Ghuma

Strategic Framework plan to achieve the Objectives

The trigger | Porous Lake Edge with coexistence of working zone and public front

The Pivot | Reimagining the gamtal's edges into a welcoming urban threshold

The Blueprint | Transforming stagnant village roots to vibrant coworking hub

Understanding and Incentivizing the change in private built due to public intervention

Full implementation plan and understanding the phasing of the project over 15 years

Stakeholders matrix and their benefits along with the financial model for the project