`Colonial Diasporic Architecture and a City
2.5 Current Issues of Built Heritage The editors of Calcutta built heritage today, Prosenjit Das Gupta and Ayan Ghosh (2015) try to convey the current situation of Kolkata. The pressure on the built environment increased with the growth of population and the partition of the country in 1947. The character of the buildings changed with the ground floor being converted for commercial use and the facades changed as per convenience degrading heritage character. "The buildings that were erected with great care and attention are decaying and their condition deteriorating due to lack of maintenance and repair."~ Prosenjit Das Gupta and Ayan Ghosh, Calcutta Built Heritage today. The writer conveys that issues like, lack of funds, multiplicity of ownership, dispute and disagreement, old tenancy laws, and incompatible structural and visual changes, that are complex and often interlinked often created many problems for the heritage buildings in the city. 8
Map 6: Growth of Calcutta over the years Source: Atlas of Kolkata by NATMO
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Prosenjit Das Gupta, A. G. (2015). Calcutta- Built Heritage Today . Calcutta: G.M.Kapur Convenor.
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