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Shreya Khurana

UP4002

Spatial Inequity due to Regressive Planning- Shahibaug

The history of Ahmedabad suggests a preferential choice of the mill owners settling in Shahibaug. Over the years, Shahibaug has attracted the wealthiest. Even after an unceasing demand, it continues to be a low-density affluent residential neighborhood under the regressive planning mechanism adopted by a single landowner. A study of one square kilometer of the residential neighborhood of Shahibaug suggests how such a regressive mechanism leads to inaccessibility to public spaces, locked-up land, and restricted dynamism. Such affluent neighborhoods fail to address the needs of the lower-income class.


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Spatial Inequity due to Regressive Planning

Introducing the Precinct

A Tour Around Shahibaug

A Prolonged Land of the Elites

Built Environment Shaped by the Elites

Street Networks- Restricted Accessibility

Inaccessible Open Spaces

Restricted Space Dynamics

Anomalies in Infrastructure Services

Comparison with Progressively Planned Neighborhoods