From river to Riverfront: how meanings and cultural heritage change. The case of the Sabarmati Riverfront project, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Dempsey, Nicola; Velarde, Canals López; Samuel, Marián; Bakshi, Y.; Baradi, M.

doi:10.3828/tpr.2020.89

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“…As Sepe (2018) argued, the formation and preservation of place identity matters to a wide range of people [8]. In order to understand place identity in urban regeneration, it is significant to focus on the relationship between the set of identities related to humans and the structured diversity of meanings that affect the cultural heritage and social interactions, which are products primarily created by local users and urban environment [5,8,46,47]. Therefore, this section explores the meaning and memory embedded in historical and cultural heritage and how to preserve or create social spaces for daily users.…”

Section: Memory Meaning and Social Spacesmentioning

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Conducting Heritage Tourism-Led Urban Renewal in Chinese Historical and Cultural Urban Spaces: A Case Study of Datong

Lei

Zhou

2022

Land

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Heritage tourism-led urban renewal and regeneration has recently become a critical way of creating a city brand, designing tourism destinations, and attracting property developers and investors to cities. However, current practice points to a lack of proper understanding and consideration in preserving and interpreting elements of authentic identity in the Chinese historic urban landscape. In this study, we used the ancient city of Datong, China, under urban regeneration as a case study to explore how urban history and cultural resources are manifested in preserving and reconstructing historic urban landscapes. The methods included in-depth interviews with multiple stakeholders and groups, integrated with the analysis of planning documents and field observations. By categorising and evaluating the research data, we developed a new conceptual framework with applicable measures, contributing to heritage-tourism urban regeneration and shaping place identity in both theoretical and practical aspects. The conceptual framework and its corresponding concepts and measures developed from this research could provide guidelines for academics and practitioners to explore more potential aspects and concepts that focus on the research and development of Chinese cities with historic urban landscapes.

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Section: Memory Meaning and Social Spacesmentioning

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Conducting Heritage Tourism-Led Urban Renewal in Chinese Historical and Cultural Urban Spaces: A Case Study of Datong

Lei

Zhou

2022

Land

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“…The auster concrete walls disconnect the two sites, with two distinct identities. The new design logic, that targets a global citizen, changed the existing relationship of users with the river, turning the river into a riverfront (Dempsey, 2020). The project was inattentive to the daily activities (religious and secular), that constituted an important intangible value related with identity, cultural values and traditions.…”

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Growing fast, innovating slowly. Informal Ahmedabad between past and future

Tognon

Felix

2022

Proceedings - 3rd Valencia International Biennial of Research in Architecture, VIBRArch

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The fast urban development in India is making evident many social, cultural, and economic complexities reproduced in the city's planning and design. The drive for modernization is becoming the central topic in the national and political debate and becomes more urgent every day. Among these contexts, urban fabrics in-between developing cities, heritage roots, "smart city" missions and "kinetic" cities constitute a framework for research on morphological, functional, social and environmental perspectives. This paper investigates contested locations in Ahmedabad, where informality finds space between heritage structures and recent beautification projects, such as the Sabarmati riverfront. The paper understands how a holistic approach is essential in rethinking and upgrading the spatial and urban conditions of informal settlements in the city and therefore highlights the relevance of adequate lenses to understand these complexities. Like many other cities in India, living in slums or informal settlements is a common phenomenon in Ahmedabad, as they provide affordable housing close to job opportunities. In 2009, AMC (Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation) identified 834 slums, sheltering 23 per cent of the total population of the city. Several conditions and features characterize these settlements since their communities are often from the same region, class, caste, or religion. This paper will analyze case studies in Ahmedabad, where the friction between informality, preservation of heritage structures and new smart city developments is evident. The paper will question various assumptions regarding the informal environment and analyze their cultural and architectural identities, the domestication of heritage structures, and vulnerability within the idea of a smart and globalized Ahmedabad.

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