Ira Viral Shukla

UR3596

The study posits that the spatial identity of a city is not merely a consequence of environmental constraints or functional imperatives, but a cultural construct continuously reconstituted through social practices, religious beliefs and historical contingencies. Through exemplification of Ahmedabad and Bhaktapur, it establishes that cities are not just physical entities but also spatial expressions of collective life, with their compositional arrangements serving as building blocks of urban coherence.