Dempsey, N. orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-8673, Velarde, C.L.M., Samuel, M. et al. (2 more authors) (2020) From river to Riverfront: how meanings and cultural heritage change. The case of the Sabarmati Riverfront project, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Town Planning Review, 91 (6). pp. 643-666. ISSN 0041-0020
Abstract
With rapid urbanisation has come changes to Ahmedabad’s spatial form, including the decision to transform eleven kilometres of the city’s monsoon river into a Riverfront. The Sabarmati Riverfront project is extensive in scale and ambition, and emerged with strong political support for the ‘environmental improvement … and urban rejuvenation project’. However, exactly how the project has improved and rejuvenated the river is unclear. Mindful of how rivers in India constitute important cultural heritage, in this article we aim to examine how the policy rhetoric behind the Sabarmati Riverfront project was implemented in practice and experienced in real life.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Liverpool University Press. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Town Planning Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Landscape Architecture (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AH/N007328/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2020 10:58 |
Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2020 10:58 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3828/tpr.2020.89 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:168155 |