The ghats in banaras have become centre of human activities since dawn of Hindu

civilisation and have been readily adapted to relevant use ever since 14th century.
Last three centuries have led to making the ghats a place of heritage cum daily episodic
activities for the Hindus.
The ghats have had a variety of living orders sustained through itself also combining the
religious activities designed for beings which cease to exist.
Historically landscape has been made a part of the culture to exist between the mortal
realms, incidentally some of the ghats are most alive and when they are defining the
inanimate. Humans consistently modify their environments—both directly and indirectly.
However, the linkage between human activity and anthropogenic landscapes intensifies
in urban situations, like in banaras where the activities have sustained the order of time
and are now adapting to social and cultural changes of 21 st century.
The paper tries to examine the relationship between the elements of biophilia in spatial
system of historic cultural landscape of banaras and tries to understand the significance
of mortal elements--sky, ether, fire, water and earth in relation to the inanimate.

Humans consistently modify their environments—both directly and indirectly. However,

the linkage between human activity and anthropogenic landscapes intensifies in urban
situations. The artificial landscapes and dense concentrations of human populations
encountered in urban environments create a centripetal pull for resources that results in
continual and distant landscape changes, thus inextricably linking urbanism and
anthropogenic landscapes.