City Form India: Peer Review Meeting
16 February, 2010
NIUA, New Delhi
A
peer review meeting was convened at NIUA on 16 February. At the outset,
Prof. Chetan Vaidya welcomed all the partners of the project. He mentioned
that the study being done in both the cities have to go on parallel to
each other. A lot of data has been collected and it is critical to come
out with findings that are broad and not confine to the selected cities
alone. We have developed a common chapterization scheme for the final
report and analysis from both cities could fit in the format. Thereon, he
invited, Prof. KT Ravindran to make a presentation on Faridabad case study
area.
Prof.
Ravindran, SPA spoke elaborately on the whole to part approach being
undertaken for Faridabad study. He introduced Faridabad in the regional
context, its linkages and connectivity and moved to introducing the four
detailed areas. He shared with the team findings of one detailed area on
environmental theme. This was followed by a case study presentation on
Rajkot by Prof. Utpal Sharma, CEPT. Prof. Sharma gave a detailed overview
of the 6 selected areas in the city.
Prof. Dinesh Mehta mentioned that it is important to understand what is
sustainable urban form, what are those common set of parameters on which
both the teams are going to make analysis and what are the lessons drawn
from these case study areas. Dr. Shibu Raman, OBU raised the need to link
the analysis to urban form. He suggested that a set of research questions
developed for strengthening the findings.