Department of Geography & GIS
Geo-Eye
Year: 2020, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 4-7
Original Article
Pooja Biswas Rambhakta1
1Ph.D, Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne (CES), Université Paris 1, Pantheon, Sorbonne, Paris
Received Date:11 February 2020, Accepted Date:22 April 2020
Achieving sustainable development has been a global concern for decades. The urban situation in most developing countries has been chaotic with a fast-paced unregulated developmental boom. In India, the uncontrolled urban advancement has been an outcome of its rapid urbanisation in nearly every city. Consequently, this is leading to the hasty decline in the urban cultural built heritage. This paper, therefore, tries to look into urban (built) heritage in Indian Cities and makes an endeavour to point out how rapid urbanisation and unplanned development can affect the city heritage. Deemed as a fast urbanising Indian city (also a smart city) with evaporating cultural heritage, the research undertook Visakhapatnam as a case study. Urban heritage – Cultural heritage – urbanisation - Vizag heritage - Vernacular-building - Endangered cultural heritage - Urbanisation and conservation - heritage in urbanising societies.
Keywords: Urban heritage; Cultural heritage; Urbanisation; Vizag heritage; Vernacular building; Endangered cultural heritage; Urbanisation conservation heritage in urbanising societies
© 2020 Rambhakta. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka
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