URBAN RENEWAL

CONSERVATION

M.THAMARAI PRIYA
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What Is
Conservation ? It Is Most Applicable To Zone Of City
Which Are Now Generally Suited To
A Conservation Policy Would Have
As It Objectives The Protection Of
Their Function ,Zones In Which Such Areas By Preventing Their
Buildings Are Kept In Good Falling Into A Condition Requiring
Condition, Zones Containing Redevelopment.
Buildings And Areas Of Historical,
Cultural Or Architectural Value.
 Owners Must Maintain Buildings To Legally
Prescribed Standards

Following Overcrowding Of Rooms And Dwellings Are

Not To Be Permitted
Measures Are
Important In Overcrowding Of Buildings On Sites Not To Be
Such Zones : Permitted (New Buildings Proposals Are To Be
Carefully Assesses )

Strict Enforcement Of Zoning Regulations

I.E.,The Area Is Not Allowed To Disturb the
essence of what is being conserved.
 • Historical centres, as clusters of
architecturally and historically significant
buildings and monuments, are part of the
city’s identity.
• The concepts of sustainability and
Introduction conservation deal with the same principle,
maintaining the existing, protecting the
heritage forfuture generations.
• The purpose of this research is to develop a
holistic strategy for the sustainable
conservation of historical centers.
 Economic Development

• Adaptive reuse and cost recovery

• Full commercialization of historic city centers
• Modernization of commercial activity

Physical Improvement

• Infrastructure development

Goals of • Restoration of monuments

• Mass rehabilitation of entire housing areas

Urban Environmental Actions

Conservation • Control the environmental impact of transport

• Control the effect of transport on air quality
• Plan for sustainable transport system

Neighbourhood Strategy

• Neighbourhood Str ategy is about the coordination of efforts

and city-wide approach for regeneration
• net overall economic gain
• avoid clustering activities in certain areas and decline in others
 • One of the successful conservation
legacy has been laid down by the
historic city of Ahmedabad.
Heritage • Ahmedabad received a setback in the
post-independence Era due to which
Conservation – Economic challenges expansion led to
In Ahmedabad the pulling down of historical
structures to facilitate expansion and
access to modern amenities.
• In 1984, the study undertaken by
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation
along with America's Ford Foundation
set the stone rolling for conserving the
Teen Darwaza, Ahmedabad

• The funds generated were used towards

conservation efforts. There were
Initiatives like heritage walk
• This type of inclusive approach for the
cause of culture and heritage further
strengthened solidarity among people.
• A number of heritage buildings were
converted into heritage home stays
which depicted the lifestyles and
cultures of the past thus attracting
tourism and revenue for the area
• The success story of
Ahmedabad in promoting
its urbans by preserving its
rich heritage has been an
inspiration and the city is
now been recognized as
world heritage city by
UNESCO.
• It has also been an example
to depicts how local bodies
can also play a part in
preserve, conserve and
maintaining the culture,
heritage and history of the
city.
Urban Character
Streets and Neighborhoods
• The nucleus of activities at Bhadra and Manek
Chowk and the twelve gates on the wall,
created a radial pattern of streets. Puras were
connected with wider streets and entered
through gates.
• The city of Ahmedabad has been able to
display examples worth replicating in the field
of heritage conservation.
• The historical importance of the city, city form,
wall, gates, pols, house patterns and the
problems related to old fabric were analyzed.
 Closure of Textile mills:
• large part of the residential population in
the Walled City consisted tenants
working in textile mills. With the mills
closing down, they were rendered jobless
and stopped maintaining the old
buildings that they occupied. This led to a
Changes in the variety of heritage properties getting
ruined.
Economy Growth of gold and silver units:
• The gold and silver industry in the Walled
City grew and attracted many skilled
persons into the fabric. This influx of
people from outside has disturbed the
homogeneity of the social fabric in pols.
This is also suspected to have increased
the crime rate in the Walled City.
 • Commercial ingress in the old fabric,
especially after the addition of Relief Road,
created a lot of undesirable changes in the
landuse. Warehouses coming up inside the
pols greatly disturbed the residential
character.
Lack of information
• Awareness among the people about
conservation is very poor. Also the
unavailability of proper building materials
for repair works caused decay. Proper
maps and drawings of the Walled City
were not available. This reduces the access
of the police, fire force, ambulances, etc.
into the deeper portions of the city.
Heritage Walk: A key
tool for urban reviyal:
• Heritage Walk - as the name suggests, behaves
as an effective tool whereby the inner areas of
the city shall be explored in terms of the
architectural heritage, cultural heritage and the
craft heritage.
• The walk carries with it another kind of
advantage - the changes it can bring about in
the landuse pattern of the area, by conversion of
a part of the heritage building into a cafeteria or
into a paying guest accommodation, whereby
the tourists can get the actual feel of the cultural
heritage by staying within the precincts of it.
• Restored Karanj Chabutro Restored Hatkeshver Temple
Restored Dwarka Dheesh Temple Adaptive Reuse of Traditional Pol Houses
 Urban Conservation requires careful
planning and management of limited
or selected cultural assets.

Conclusion
Conservation of architectural heritage
acts as preservation of templates in
the museum of world cultures
whereas urban heritage is
conservation the area as a whole.