Assessing the acceptance of cultural policies among heritage homeowners: a study of Ahmedabad's heritage TDR implementation, capacity building, and satisfaction (2024)

Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements. In particular, the case study of Sabarmati Redevelopment in Ahmedabad details the project cycle, from the scoping phase and determination of the initial amount of public sector investment, to implementation and subsequent leveraged private-sector funds. The book and its case studies guide local governments to systematically identify the sequence of steps and tasks needed to develop a regeneration policy framework, with the participation of the private sector. Citation “Bhatt, Chirayu. (2016). Reclaiming the Sabarmati Riverfront. In Amirtahmasebi, Rana; Orloff, Mariana; Wahba, Sameh; Altman, Andrew. 2016. Regenerating Urban Land : A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment. Urban Development;. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/24377 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”

Urban Planning

Public spaces go beyond the typical definition of being an open space. They reflect the diversity and vibrancy of the urban fabric and hold the power to create memories. Among all public spaces, streets emerge as the most public. Streets are engines of economic activities, social hubs, and platforms for civic engagement. They break socio-economic divides and foster social cohesion. Planning, designing, and managing better public spaces have become important global discussions. Sustainable Development Goals (8 and 11) and the New Urban Agenda emphasize the significance of inclusive and sustainable economy and safe, accessible and quality public spaces for all. The proposed article uses the case of street vending to understand the manifestation of these goals in an Indian context by assessing street vendors’ role in Ahmedabad’s urban fabric through extensive spatial analysis of 4,000 vendors at four different time points of the day, perception studies of their clientele disaggregated ...

International Journal of Housing Policy, 2020

Available at SSRN 2037705, 2006

Asian Journal of Management, 2015

Urban Science, 2019

The rapid rise in urbanization internationally is both driving and stressing our consumption patterns, including that of land use. Urban sprawl is arguably one of the most important threats to human and nature biodiversity given its reliance upon fossil fuel exploitation and consumption. The need for increasing the density of cities is required to contain urban expansion in land size. However, while the footprint density of cities is increasing, vacant plots are prized and rare in most urban areas. Tradable air rights development is seen as a potential solution to provide developers the option of increasing density while encouraging an emerging urban economy. However, the price speculation of air rights is a danger and counter to a fair and inclusive real estate market. This paper proposes a new model that encourages the trading of time-sensitive air rights through Smart Contracts in the Blockchain as a means of prevention against urban sprawl.

EFFLATOUNIA - Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021

Transit Oriented Development in theory is not a latest concept for the planners globally, even Indian authors, practitioners as well as agencies are working on TOD concept have defined it in their own terms likewise as an integration of land uses and transit planning that focuses on the developed and planned sustainable growth of urban centers with walkable and livable communes in collaboration with elevated density and planning with mixed land use. Populace shall have connectivity to public spaces with lots of green spaces in relation to comfortable and effective transit facilities. Therefore Transit Oriented Development is considered as a creative model for urban areas which ensures sustainable mobility and optimizes utilization of land through compact mixed- use development through leveraging existing and forthcoming public transport infrastructure. So, through this paper an effort is done to review the application of TOD in India through 2 processes i.e., firstly via case studies of the areas where TOD has been planned or implemented and secondly via the detailed study of the policies defined in various cities.

Choice Reviews Online, 2013

Quarterly Journal of Indian Institute of Public …, 2007

In 2002, the city of Ahmedabad (India) was profoundly shaken by severe interreligious riots. Subsequent years saw deep transformations in the image of the city and the consolidation of the right-wing Hindu nationalist party in the local and supra-local political arena. This article investigates some of the spatial manifestations of an urban transformation involving the valorization of historical heritage. The article focuses in particular on the large-scale Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project, which began in 2005 and remains ongoing, and on the inclusion of the historical center of Ahmedabad in the World Heritage List in 2017. The two developments have profoundly reshaped the image of the city and its river. The article offers an analysis of the city's transformations and of the related rhetoric promoted by the local governing coalition. It highlights the city's role in shaping a vision of a global, sustainable and historic metropolis.

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) strategies can improve connectivity between housing and employment centers, green spaces, and community facilities by supporting both local environmental sustainability objectives, through more efficient use of land, and “complete” streets, by creating safer infrastructure for pedestrians and bicyclists, leading to potential modal shifts. Enabling conditions for TOD may include changes in land-use regulation and other statutory provisions to create an integrated regulatory framework. TOD requires robust stakeholder engagement and institutional coordination during planning and implementation. Financing mechanisms cities have used to fund TOD include Land Value Capture, a strategy based on expected increases in land values due to infrastructure investments. These mechanisms have been used to generate revenues such as Tax Increment Financing (TIF) and a wide range of taxes and fees. Cities should be aware of the potential negative impacts of TOD, such...

Indian Historical Review, 2022

The sultans of Gujarat tried to transform the landscape by planting native and exotic trees and introducing gardens on the perceived Central-Asian Khorasan style to underpin their control over the acquired or conquered territory and its naturelandscape. After the founding of Ahmedabad, gardens within the religious and secular architecture came up all over the city. The foliage and gardens were hugely admired by the travellers passing by the city. Perusing their travelogues, we navigate the changing landscape and the green spaces of Ahmedabad over a period of time. While constructing the history of gardens in Ahmedabad, this article reflects on the future sustainability of the city if the culture of nature and environment-sensitive values are not inculcated and promoted.

Growth and Change, 2020

Transfer of development rights (TDR) programs are introduced as an alternative institutional innovation to the traditional regulatory instruments for land development. They meet the demand for development and conservation while balancing the conflicts between public and private interests with minimal use of public funds. Most TDR literature is about nature conservation and there is little focus on the complicated process and diverse stakeholders' interests of urban land use in dealing with built heritage conservation. Previous studies show that the success of TDR programs depends on various elements, especially policy design and implementation approaches. The design and implementation of TDR programs involves transaction costs that can reduce the efficiency and effectiveness of these programs. This paper aims at developing a framework for analyzing TDR programs. This proposed framework not only takes transactions costs into account, but also provides a basis for decision makers to decipher the process of informal TDR. Using Hong Kong as a case study, three TDR implementation modes are selected to examine how different informal institutional arrangements have resulted in specific transaction costs in practice and hindered TDR projects. Our findings , which are informed by transactions costs economics, provide practical insights in order to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of TDR programs, particularly in informal contexts.

This study explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. It first identifies barriers to and opportunities for effective coordination of transit infrastructure and urban development. It then recommends a set of policies and implementation measures for overcoming these barriers and exploiting these opportunities. Well-integrated transit and land development create urban forms and spaces that reduce the need for travel by private motorized vehicles. Areas with good access to public transit and well-designed urban spaces that are walkable and bikeable become highly attractive places for people to live, work, learn, play, and interact. Such environments enhance a city's economic competitiveness, reduce local pollution and global greenhouse gas emissions, and promote inclusive development. These goals are at the heart of transit-oriented development (TOD), an urban form that is increasingly important to sustainable urban futures. This book uses a case study approach. It draws lessons from global best-case examples of transit-oriented metropolises that have direct relevance to cities in developing countries and elsewhere that are currently investing in bus rapid transit (BRT) and other high-capacity transit systems. It also reports the results of two original in-depth case studies of rapidly growing and motorizing cities that introduced extended BRT systems: Ahmedabad, India and Bogota, Colombia. Two shorter case studies enrich the understanding of factors that are critical to transforming cities with transit.

Most of the Indian cities have now been experimented with the implementation of Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) since its inception two decades back. TDR Scheme in Nagpur was initiated under Development plans as per Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act 1966 in 2000. TDR scheme witnessed several development impacts since its inception two decades specifically on loading aspects. This paper aimed to carry out performance evaluation of implementation of two TDR Schemes, initially implemented 2000-2016 and New TDR scheme 2016 onwards by Government of Maharashtra (GoM) through sanctioned projects in Nagpur Municipal Corporation, Maharashtra, India. Study discusses some key issues related to distribution or loading of TDR in zones as identified in Nagpur for both the policies. Further case study methodology was adopted for the study which is based on the developed areas in form of built-up areas permissible under Development Control Rules (DCR) of Nagpur city. Two Municipality sanctioned cases were selected for the study, one was implemented as per 2000-16 policy norms and other with new TDR with Additional FSI policy by Government of Maharashtra. The comparative study explores some key policy frameworks for regulating developments with respect to Transfer of Development Rights (TDR), Additional paid FSI, Floor Space Index (FSI), premium areas in Nagpur and attempts to address the key issues as to how to initiate more effective and responsive development mechanism based on these regulations for loading of TDR. The author tries to explain how TDR as a policy for lading has been used simply in form of additional Floor Space Index (FSI) in receiving areas. Further paper through comparative statements also highlights and discusses the unaddressed impact areas in both the policies resulting into more spurt onto various aspects related to development spaces