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Rethinking ‘Heritage’ Based on Urban Space Transformations in the Colonial Town of Chandernagore, India
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https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2943-6516
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Heritage is not just something associated with the past but also something that connects us with our present and accompanies us into the future. Heritage always calls for inclusion, but the inclusionary aspect of heritage is often underpinned when it comes to developmentDevelopment. In the colonial townColonial town of Chandernagore, the urban expansion and fast rise of multi-storey buildings have begun to threaten the existence of urban-heritageUrban-heritage structures at an alarming rate. In Chandernagore, one of the oldest municipal corporations of West Bengal, the urbanUrban and historic realms are inextricably linked. The study will attempt to map the co-existing colonial heritage units within the urban spaceUrban space and will try to explore the underlying causes of the conflict between heritage and urban planningUrban planning. The major goals of the chapter are to find out ward-wise changing density of population on the basis of prior literature, decadal census data; delineate of spatio-temporal change of land use and land coverLand use land cover (LULC) over a span of almost 40 years (1982–2022) using supervised image classification approach with maximum likelihood classification and corroborating it with corresponding Google Earth images; and understand citizen’s perspective about the recent trend of urbanisation involving qualitative methods like key informant interviews, transect walk, passive observation and contextual interviews. If urbanUrban concerns are adequately addressed, the cityCities has every chance of becoming a viable, sustainable heritage cityCities. The action planAction plan formulated on the basis of the study findings hopes to offer interesting insights to the planners and conservations to rethink and recognise the plurality of the heritage values through comprehensive up-scaling heritage initiatives.
Rethinking ‘Heritage’ Based on Urban Space Transformations in the Colonial Town of Chandernagore, India
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4153-5066
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2943-6516
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5103-7992
Heritage is not just something associated with the past but also something that connects us with our present and accompanies us into the future. Heritage always calls for inclusion, but the inclusionary aspect of heritage is often underpinned when it comes to developmentDevelopment. In the colonial townColonial town of Chandernagore, the urban expansion and fast rise of multi-storey buildings have begun to threaten the existence of urban-heritageUrban-heritage structures at an alarming rate. In Chandernagore, one of the oldest municipal corporations of West Bengal, the urbanUrban and historic realms are inextricably linked. The study will attempt to map the co-existing colonial heritage units within the urban spaceUrban space and will try to explore the underlying causes of the conflict between heritage and urban planningUrban planning. The major goals of the chapter are to find out ward-wise changing density of population on the basis of prior literature, decadal census data; delineate of spatio-temporal change of land use and land coverLand use land cover (LULC) over a span of almost 40 years (1982–2022) using supervised image classification approach with maximum likelihood classification and corroborating it with corresponding Google Earth images; and understand citizen’s perspective about the recent trend of urbanisation involving qualitative methods like key informant interviews, transect walk, passive observation and contextual interviews. If urbanUrban concerns are adequately addressed, the cityCities has every chance of becoming a viable, sustainable heritage cityCities. The action planAction plan formulated on the basis of the study findings hopes to offer interesting insights to the planners and conservations to rethink and recognise the plurality of the heritage values through comprehensive up-scaling heritage initiatives.
Rethinking ‘Heritage’ Based on Urban Space Transformations in the Colonial Town of Chandernagore, India
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4153-5066
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2943-6516
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5103-7992
Heritage is not just something associated with the past but also something that connects us with our present and accompanies us into the future. Heritage always calls for inclusion, but the inclusionary aspect of heritage is often underpinned when it comes to developmentDevelopment. In the colonial townColonial town of Chandernagore, the urban expansion and fast rise of multi-storey buildings have begun to threaten the existence of urban-heritageUrban-heritage structures at an alarming rate. In Chandernagore, one of the oldest municipal corporations of West Bengal, the urbanUrban and historic realms are inextricably linked. The study will attempt to map the co-existing colonial heritage units within the urban spaceUrban space and will try to explore the underlying causes of the conflict between heritage and urban planningUrban planning. The major goals of the chapter are to find out ward-wise changing density of population on the basis of prior literature, decadal census data; delineate of spatio-temporal change of land use and land coverLand use land cover (LULC) over a span of almost 40 years (1982–2022) using supervised image classification approach with maximum likelihood classification and corroborating it with corresponding Google Earth images; and understand citizen’s perspective about the recent trend of urbanisation involving qualitative methods like key informant interviews, transect walk, passive observation and contextual interviews. If urbanUrban concerns are adequately addressed, the cityCities has every chance of becoming a viable, sustainable heritage cityCities. The action planAction plan formulated on the basis of the study findings hopes to offer interesting insights to the planners and conservations to rethink and recognise the plurality of the heritage values through comprehensive up-scaling heritage initiatives.
Rethinking ‘Heritage’ Based on Urban Space Transformations in the Colonial Town of Chandernagore, India
Springer Geography
Chatterjee, Uday (editor) / Bandyopadhyay, Nairwita (editor) / Setiawati, Martiwi Diah (editor) / Sarkar, Soma (editor) / Bose, Lina (author) / Basu, Anindya (author) / Bhattacharjee, Adrija (author)
2023-05-24
22 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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