Seminar 01 : Cracking Codes
Abstract
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re current development codes eroding our cities?
This seminar endeavours to demystify the city’s very opaque development codes and to weigh them for their actual worth in Delhi’s development process. At the same time, the paper also critically analyses these codes for symptoms of failure: cracks, due to which all the vital elements of the process seem to be running around in circles looking for answers. In the process, the intent of this kind of planning also stands to be questioned: Who are the actual beneficiaries of such a kind of planning? Does the entire process need an overhaul? Why are we so resistant to change? This leads to the premise that in the face of rapid urbanisation and inadequate management, the city may well be headed towards a situation of absolute civic chaos.
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