Observations from site

The physical barrier_ Mathura road

Observation__From the sector side onto the highway. The road at present takes the regional traffic from Delhi to Agra. Fortunately the highway is planned to be moved outside the city limits. At present, the service roads are active sites for transport interchange, temporary vendors and small-medium workshops and enterprises.

Speculation__The informal and temporal character along the service road could be utilized towards developing programs and activities which are related to transit, goods interchange, public transport etc.which would eventually serve as connections between the metro stops and sectors. The idea is to create conditions for temporal activites to happen without putting them into the frame of formal.

Mall mania_ development in Sector12

Observation__the commercial strip, as marked in the development plan of city, could have been much more than isolated developments lacking any vision from city's authorities. Faridabad seems to have followed similar strategy as Gurgaon of allowing all mall like commercial spaces in close proximity.However, the authorities are at waiting for private developers to build the public space. The three malls( see picture) at present dot the open undeveloped landscape of this part of the city.
Speculation__ Instead of resulting into a mono functional- gentrified urban space, the private developments have the greatest possibility of coming together to create a continuous urban experience.Also the relevance of time based strategic planning instead of an eternally applicable master planning comes to the fore!


From city beautiful to  city montage
The city of distincitve mono-zoning gives way to undirected hetrozoning, just as monoprogrammatic buildings give way to hetro-programmatic buildings. Work'here', play'there', and live 'elsewhere' gives way to a 'work-play','live-work' and 'play-live' hetrotopic urban fabric. (Boyer1990,127)
In Faridabad's case, the  rupture of a strict zoning and the  master plan needs to be acknowledged as signs of a working city where the everyday urbanity needs no coherence with grand schemes.  












City periphery_  eastern edge