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Infrastructure and altered spatialities: case of Pune metro

Humanising infrastructure
Samiksha Bhagde, 2024


Rapidly growing cities face an influx of a mass from its surrounding towns. This produces a need for an increment in commodities. The availability of the infrastructure and opportunities results in the settlement of this incoming mass on corresponding land. This condition densifies the fabric of the city, which continues to evolve. When the number of users increases the pressure on that location increases, due to which the city starts spreading in its outskirts. To facilitate this mass, the city needs to implement different infrastructures in order to sustain. These infrastructures help cities to manage the flow of commodities within parts of the city for better living conditions.

Ideas and types of infrastructure constantly evolve, reshaping the neighbourhood and aspirations of people around it. Infrastructure plays a critical role in shaping the characteristics and functionality of neighbourhoods. Hence it becomes very important to look at insertions of infrastructure, especially in dense fabric. Where, The provision of such urban infrastructure is not made while it is evolving, unlike parts of the city, which have recently developed with a clearer development plan. 

Pune, a district of Maharashtra is one of the major metropolitan cities known for its cultural and historical references whose traces can still be found in old parts of the city. The city has been spreading rapidly from its dense core to the outskirts due to urbanisation. To connect these various parts of the city, Metro lines are introduced which have taken over the landscapes of the city.  The city core, which is the oldest part, has a very dense fabric that includes various settlements, markets, historic monuments, and old structures like Wadas. The research studies three Metro stations and their neighbourhoods in the core of the city. 

The thesis focuses on understanding the relationship between infrastructure, its neighbourhood and their coexistence by investigating shifts in different neighbourhoods due to the insertion of metro stations. The study involves a comparative analysis of previous and present conditions of selected neighbourhoods. Which helps to locate shifts in the social and spatial realm by closely looking at factors affecting these shifts. Findings unleash layers of factors affecting the shifts such as Commercialization, Restricted boundaries, Temporality, and Economic Networks which alter previous patterns and aspirations across corresponding neighbourhoods. These parameters result in the emergence of new types, forms, activities and opportunities in surroundings. These changes occur on macro as well as on micro level which moulds the neighbourhood, altering the spatialities. Based on the study this thesis tries to reimagine the form of insertions that will respond to its context providing more opportunities for social and cultural traits of the neighbourhood.



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