Architexturez. wrote:
| widened roads and prominent tourist monuments
| seem to make the both, planners and cons happy.
|
| but then, who cares about the city?
Decades-old buildings fall to urbanisation
| the NGO, slower than bureaucrats, wakes up, only to
| write an officious letter! And this really is not
| about a few 'main' tourist attractions. it is about
| the fabric of this city.
|
| do we need professionals in the field, in Ahmedabad
| right now? what is CEPT doing (provided they have
| some plunk leftover somewher in the fold)
AHMEDABAD: Chairman of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural
Heritage (INTACH), SK Misra has written to chief secretary, Gujarat, to
look into the proposed demolitions of ancient mosques along the Astodia
road in Ahmedabad. A letter from Misra asked the chief secretary to
advise Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to ensure that the main buildings
of the mosques are not affected and as far as possible, the surrounding
area is also preserved.
This is the story of a road which connects the Ahmedabad of the
Muhammedan era of the 14th-15th century to that of the Mall era of the
21st century in its modern western half. In the beginning of March, this
year, the Gujarat High Court vacated a stay on widening of the road,
pending since 1964.
cont'd....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/Mosques_demoliton_worries_Guj_Muslims/articleshow/1872373.cms