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The document discusses the revitalization of the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad, India. Key points include: - The Sabarmati River had been polluted and neglected as the city expanded, posing health and environmental risks. Slums along the riverbank lacked basic infrastructure and were vulnerable to flooding. - The riverfront development project aims to transform the river into a major urban asset, improving infrastructure and quality of life. It focuses on environmental, cultural, social, and financial sustainability. - Previously, untreated sewage and garbage were illegally dumped into the river. The development project seeks to reclaim the riverfront as green, public space.

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Sabarmati River Font Development

The document discusses the revitalization of the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad, India. Key points include: - The Sabarmati River had been polluted and neglected as the city expanded, posing health and environmental risks. Slums along the riverbank lacked basic infrastructure and were vulnerable to flooding. - The riverfront development project aims to transform the river into a major urban asset, improving infrastructure and quality of life. It focuses on environmental, cultural, social, and financial sustainability. - Previously, untreated sewage and garbage were illegally dumped into the river. The development project seeks to reclaim the riverfront as green, public space.

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SABARMATI RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT

: The riverfront development is already turning the Sabarmati


The River Sabarmati flows from north to south \ssplitting Ahmedabad into a major asset, which will improve the efficiency of
into virtually two equal portions. For many years, it has served as a infrastructure and the quality life in Ahmedabad . Revitalize as
water source and provides the city with essentially no designated vibrant urban space which in fact was carrying significant sewage
recreational area. The Sabarmati river had been misused and neglected flow and used as dumping yard for disposal of garbage. As a
as the city expanded, and the increased pollution was posing a serious process in urban renewal, the Sabarmati Riverfront
threat to the city's health and environment. The riverbank slums are Development Project has all the elements of; • Environmental, •
woefully vulnerable to flooding and lack basic infrastructure services Transform the non-perennial river • Cultural and social
.The River was moved behind the city and was no longer open to the sustainability • Financial,
public.

Due to increase in urban pressures, carrying capacity of existing


sewage system falling short and its diversion into storm water system
releasing sewage into the River. • Illegal sewage connections in the
storm water drains Abuse of the River Sabarmati became a place to
dump garbage Storm water drains spewed untreated sewage into the
river • Open defecation from the near by human settlements spread
over the entire length. • Discharge of industrial effluent through
some SWDs. • Illegal construction/encroachment of huts/slum on the
river bed.
VARANASI RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT
VARANASI RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT
Area Based Development
 Re-development
 Retrofitting
 Inclusive places
 Transformation
 Rejuvenation
 Rehabilitation
 Restoration
 Beautification
 Connect to Smart
 Solutions

ISSUES:
Heritage Related
Lack of protection to heritage for its
conservation
Potential danger to religious atmosphere
Poor and/or no maintenance of heritage
Destroyed visual potential esply ghats
Development Related
Increasing population
Shrinking spaces
Heritage Development Plan for urban spaces and heritage character
Varanasi: Tourism and pilgrimage pressures
• Basis for regulation of its heritage zones Increasing traffic
• Basis for conserving the built cultural Environment pressures
heritage of Varanasi Operational Issues
• Seeks to provide an interface of heritage Multiple agencies with overlapping
management with spatial planning to come jurisdictions
up with a regulatory framework for Lack of funds for conservation
development that is heritage sensitive Lack of adequate technical capacity

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