One of the most important projects carried out by the c-hed is the preparation of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the above mentioned Broadway and Ernakulam Market Heritage Urban Renewal Project. The c-hed had been entrusted with the task of preparing the DPR of the above
project by the Corporation of Cochin. With the support of a dedicated
team of Technical and Management experts the c-hed could complete this
major work in a short span of one year.
The
project area comprises of separate character zones namely; the Broadway,
the Ernakulam Market, and a few indistinct smaller urban fabric patches
that fail to qualify the entire zone into a consistent urban character
district. The urban design agenda for the area is to integrate these
sub-districts into a cohesive whole. This is being done by letting the
people who use these spaces to come together in a new and contiguous
spatial network. This new network is established by redesigning the two
basic character districts within the zone (1) by creating a new urban
place which is at the confluence of various streams of pedestrian flows,
by reinforcing existing underutilized vehicular connections (2) by
creating new pedestrian linkages to the core from surrounding areas of
high pedestrian traffic.
These
form the sub-projects or modules of the overall design intervention.
Along-with these physical design interventions, a management/policy
based intervention strategy is also being put in place under the
following head;
- Heritage Conservation strategy
- Waste Management strategy
- Traffic and Circulation Management strategy
- Vendor and Street hawkers management Strategy (based on National Policy on Urban Street Vendors)
- source: http://www.c-hed.org/?author=2
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