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Why invest in Delhi’s public spaces?
The Sustainable Development Goals that underpin the current global urban agenda, call to “provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces”. Yet, if the lack of provisions for public space in the ‘Delhi Master Plan 2021’ are to be taken as a beacon, our city is currently far from investing sufficient thought and action in its public spaces. How can we as citizens, rise to the occasion of claiming and co-creating our urban realm?
Caring for the Everyday Life and Form of the Urban
As we see the world slowly opening up, citizens spending more time outdoors, moving about, and redeveloping networks, experiencing ‘life between buildings’ is becoming more important than ever. The demand for affordable housing and public infrastructure is disproportionate to supply, which has us asking questions about the basic need and quality of our collective resources - Who plans for them? Who maintains them? Who has ownership over them?
On Being Urban
The word ‘urban’ is rooted in the networks formed by people. These high-density settlements and infrastructures of the built environment are created through the process of urbanization, which occurs via migration and natural population growth. Population density and urban sprawl are some of the key occurrences, which are defining measures within the scope of urban areas.