Urban Renewal of Walled City: A Case of Amravati

Abstract

Abstract: Walled cities are made all across India with similar concept but with different techniques depending on climatic condition and location. Some cities stand on the banks of or near a river or occupy some kindred site. Heights of city walls are more on plain lands. These city walls are generally decorated in elevation series of holes of pointed arced parapet, sloping walls etc. The reason for construction of walled cities includes; protection of public from attacks, for storage purpose, to accommodate king and protector of kingdom and to protect and store the wealth won from other countries. These walled cities are important it represent history. Today walled cities are facing lots of problems. They are in the state of decline. Today walled cities are deteriorating environmentally as well as economically. The routine traffic Jams make movement to and within Walled city difficult while collapsing civic amenities have contributed to out-migration of resident population. Earlier walled cities were heart of the city but now they are only inner core of the city. Now walled cities are surviving only because of its traditional markets. And this is only reason people visit the walled city. If these markets will shift outside the walled city, then it will become void. Similar problem is facing by Amravati walled city. Its 150-year-old sarafa market is Shifting outside the walled city. Because of lack of space for expansion, no parking facilities, width of the roads are very small, people are not willing to come inside the walled city.