1.

Select a town in your country of origin, Ideally your home-town, search for
maps from different times and for today, distinguish major periods of urban
development and their characteristics in terms of urban growth and
expression of design for “core and edges”
Vizagapatam map in 1758 by Robert Orme which illustrated the town’s key
features in the mid 1700s
This map includes the Fort and the
government surrounds in 1757
Following the end of the Anglo-French
wars in 1758, the first English
cartographers mapped Vizag, and the
French maps showed the town’s
expansion
In about 1777, a French map captioned Visigapatam illustrated about 20 years
of development. The Garden House to the left of the fort (later become the
Collector office in the 1800s and Queen Mary’s School in 1900s) is one of
many additional buildings.To the right of fort are a hospital and army mess.
A map of Vizag in 1843 illustrates the old town was dominated by administrative
buildings, the Arsenal, Zillah court, Magazine, Barracks,Hospital and Guardrooms.
There is the Arrack Godown (the administrators made money on selling arrack to
the population), and on the Beach Road was the Congee House (military slang for
confinement cells for drunks)
Blackmore’s Estate on Dolphin’s Nose, Waltair, the ferry, wells, the backwater and the
Vizagapatam river leading to the sea are noted in the map. Development of the town became
a focal point for local businessmen, and many a scheme tobuild a aharbour were drawn up
in the late 1800s.One such plan was illustrated for GL Narsingh Row, who proposed
underwriting the building of a harbour in 1875 and canvased the outer breakwater concept
supported by Sir Arthur Cotton, the eminent engineer of vizag beach groynes and Godavari
irrigation development frame.
In the late 1800s, European residents and wealthy Zamindar families considered
Waltair a distant town that required a horse and carriage for access. The Waltair map
of 1880 clearly illustrates the four carriage roads from vizagapatam to the Waltair
Uplands and the coast road to Vizianagram.
By the late 1800s and early 1900s, the building of the railway linked Waltair to the Vizag
port area. Surfaced roadways linked Vizag and Waltair, and new roads reached into Chinna
Waltair and Vizianagram and Bhimilipatam.Scandal point was the original limit of the
Beach road and township, but Zamindars established Summer Bungalows along the shore
up to Lawson’s Bay.Some eminent families funded the roads from Daba Gardens to the
beach and extended the Beach Road to Lawson’s Bay.
Many time vessels were the mainstay of Vizag’s commerce, and as steamers replaced
sailing ships, the discovery of manganese and coal accelerated the harbour construction
plans for their export.The government approved the new inner harbour in 1916,
construction started in 1925, and it was open to commercial traffic in 1933.
 Bheemili Beach

Kailasagiri

Ramakrishna Beach

Gangavaram Beach
2.Identify and localize a characteristic fine grain urban morphology in this town and
investigate its typologies of built form and open spaces. Indicate values of use and
form for it. Simulate small-spatial urban changes of tomorrow relative to the
structural conditions of today. Define the spatial differentiation of the morphology
(public-private)
Land use in 1975

Land use in 1995

S.NO Category % of total area % of total area
(1975) (1995)
1 Residential 15.87 33.17
2 Industrial 6.80 8.25
3 Roads & Railways 4.72 6.75
4 Agriculture 0.31 0.00
5 Hills, Forests & Water Bodies 8.37 5.92
6 Ports 37.91 38.11
7 Vacant Land 26.21 8.21
Land Use in 2003 Land Use in 2009
S.NO Category % of total area % of total area
(2003) (2009)
1 Residential 14.42 20.47
2 Industrial 3.62 4.92
3 Roads & Railways 17.21 17.66
4 Agricultural/Vegetation 16.80 11.02
5 Hills & Forests 26.23 26.23
6 Water Bodies 2.32 2.32
7 Ports 10.65 10.62
8 Vacant Land 8.76 6.74
3.Characterize the overall urban structure (compact/multi-core-fragmented)
of the selected town and the role of landscape/green open spaces relative to
periods of history
 Agriculture
58.83
Agriculture 10.82

Built-up
Built-up 127.89
23.54
Plantation
Plantation 138.74
25.53
Waste-
Waste- land
land Forest 54.94
10.11 140.38 Water
Water bodies
Forest; 25.84 bodies 22.47
4.13

In 2006 In 2011
4.Identify and localize
-Lack of urban changes
-Massive urban changes
-Small spatial urban changes
 Lack of Urban Changes

Urban changes were not observed in hill regions and forest regions
 Massive Urban Changes

Major urban changes are observed in these residential section

 Small Spatial Urban Changes

Small Spatial changes were observed in open spaces, parks, Semi public spaces
5.Identify and localize major public spaces and patterns of spatial differentiation
in their surroundings (from public to private)
Gangavaram Beach

Appikonda Beach
 Bheemili Beach

Thotlakonda

Indira Gandhi Zoological Park

Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary
 Rushikonda Beach

Sagar Nagar Beach

Kailasagiri Park Tenneti Park

 Matsya Darshini

Ramakrishna Beach

Fishing Harbour

Durga Beach

Dolphin’s Nose

Yarada Beach
6.Define structural oppurtunities for local urban transformation over time relative to
the selected characteristic morphology and to the overall urban structure.
Existing Plan for Visakhapatnam Metropolitian Region
Proposed Tourism Nodes of VMR in 2041

Proposed Industrial Nodes in 2041

Proposed Commercial Use areas in 2041
Proposed Mixed Use areas in 2041

Proposed Urban Expansions and Institutions in 2041

Proposed Land Use Plan of 2041