For the Central Vista, this could have involved removing existing barricades for a fluid interaction between built and unbuilt, using and upgrading existing cultural and public spaces, and introducing a greater diversity of public uses.
It is worth highlighting that in this day and age, astoundingly, the Central Vista project is almost exclusively driven by men in leadership roles. Some of them are, in turn, often quoted stating that they are realising the dream of one man. Lacking transparency and public consultation — given the haste of its process, which is almost entirely devoid of women in key decision-making roles — the design outcomes of the Central Vista project have, unsurprisingly, little to offer the women of Delhi.
Colonial Delhi was built to keep subjects at a distance. Post-Independence planning did too little to reverse the disconnect of streets and the public. Women were at a greater disadvantage in the resultant urban conditions, especially as they joined the workforce in increasing numbers. It is unfortunate that in , we are entrenching, rather than dismantling, these deeply problematic urban practices in the Central Vista project. I had finished my first year of architecture when I was assaulted.
Last year, another close architect friend was assaulted near her home in Delhi. We both picked ourselves up, 20 years apart, and somehow got to safety. Instead the project continues to disregard the foundational connections of its planning priorities with the violence that Delhi begets its women.
It is not that urban design and urban violence against women are unrelated. Amritha Ballal is a practising architect and urban planner. She teaches and writes about how built habitats shape and are shaped by natural and social ecology. Tags: crime in delhi. Next Delayed justice for child abuse victims. More from Patriot. Latest Reports. November 11, PTI. November 10, Team Patriot. November 10, PTI. November 9, PTI. But even before the headlines about that incident caught national and global attention, a sense of insecurity has been mounting in Delhi.
It is part of the larger Global Safe Cities Initiative which aims to empower women and their communities in diverse settings. The household survey in India was conducted among a representative sample of women and girls and men and boys in the age group of years of age in Delhi.
Each of us has our own reason for being here. Lisa Gilardino, a year-old performing arts curator and producer from Bologna in Italy, has been in Delhi for a week, and she is here to study how the organisers create an alternative experience of the city through the walk. In fact, none of the organisers of the walk wished to be interviewed for this story. The point of the walk, they say, is not to gain publicity for themselves. Rather they want to promote the idea that the walk is—or should be—nothing out of the ordinary.
Towards the end of our walk, we sit for a few minutes on the benches in the market square. Someone posts on Instagram Live. But at 1. The walk is over. I feel a strange lightness, like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Someone asks if anyone wants to say anything. But something had shifted. In us, for sure, in the way we see the city.
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