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Highway urbanization in Chiplun

Mobility and Publics
Ninad Thatte, 2022


The highways connecting the two cities have always helped to upgrade the towns and villages. Over time the type and amount of traffic using it changed and the need to upgrade these highways came up. So the project for widening the Mumbai-Goa highway started in 2011. The whole 2-lane highway from Panvel (Mumbai) to Goa is supposed to be expanded to 6-lanes. This project aims for better roads, safe travel, and less travel time. Most of the work in the Raigad and Sindhudurg districts is done and work in the Ratnagiri district is in progress. Around early 2019, work for the same project on the highway’s section in the town of Chiplun started.

The dissertation is a study to understand how the upgradation of the highway changes the life of people along its edge. The thesis also tries to locate the affordances this upgradation offers. After doing photo documentation and interviews with the locals, it was observed that there are mainly 4 types of landscape changes across the highway. So to study 3 different types of cases of different programmatic conditions were selected. One is where an old residential structure is reconfigured, the second is of a new builtform coming up and the third is of a public institute. These cases were analyzed by before and after conditions of the highway edge of the project. The categories for analyzing were program, activity and behavior, and topography.



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Mobility and Publics
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Street as a carnival


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