watch-doggism: a UAC for Kolkata?

ref: http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg02649.shtml
ref: http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg02547.shtml

Thanks to its commissioner, Alapan Bandopadhyay, who has to be credited 
with displaying courage to call a spade a spade—that is, terming the 
ugly promenade over the underground parking lot and shopping complex in 
front of New Market (or Hogg’s Market) an "architectural disaster". As 
Bandopadhyay said recently, there cannot be uncontrolled diversity in 
design in an area, especially those of public spaces. Another important 
principle he underlined was that stakeholders should be consulted and 
involved in all projects and there has to be design control machinery, 
like an urban arts commission. Hopefully, from now on, the KMC will 
invite opinions and ideas from the citizenry before embarking on any 
project so as to ensure, in Bandopadhyay’s words, aesthetically designed 
structures and spaces in Kolkata. Bandopadhyay, an accomplished 
bureaucrat and a person known for his good and aesthetic sense, seems 
like a breath of fresh air among the rusty, musty, tradition-bound 
babudom of Bengal that has produced ugly, soulless, kitschy and bland 
structures that have made large parts of Kolkata utterly hideous.

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