Presentation by Naresh Narasimhan, Co-founder of MOD Institute and Principal Architect at VA Group (www.vagroup.com), at the CoLab/Goethe panel discussion on ‘Reclaiming Public Space for People’ held in the Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, India on 31st May 2011.

1. Cities for People
Naresh Narasimhan Venkataramanan Associates | MOD Institute

2. ‘reclaiming public space for people’
what does ‘public space for people’ mean?

3. open, participatory, inclusive, kinetic, ...

4. ‘reclaiming public space for people’
why ‘reclaiming’? who occupies public space?

5. Automobile-isation of public spaces

6. Infrastructure-isation of public spaces

7. Security-isation of public spaces

8. the occupation and use of public space is
contingent upon its design
a brief history of public spaces in Bangalore

9. from functional to haphazard planning

10. the beginning: Kempegowda’s Fort (Kote) and Peta

11. the beginning: Kempegowda’s Fort (Kote) and Peta

12. the beginning: traditional urban fabric

13. the colonial rule: tale of two cities

14. the colonial rule: tale of two cities

15. the colonial rule: coming of European planning

16. the colonial rule: Basavangudi - design legacies

17. po-co times: from planned neighbourhoods to sprawls

18. po-co times: arbitrary logic of public space design

19. making cities for people

20. the human dimension: senses and scale

21. the battle for quality is on the small scale

22. life, space, building – in that order!

23. what if...

24. Brigade Road junctions: WWI Memorial & Mayo Hall

25. WWI Memorial junction: existing plan

26. WWI Memorial junction: concept plan

27. WWI Memorial junction: detail of proposed plan

28. WWI Memorial junction: view #1

29. WWI Memorial junction: view #2

30. WWI Memorial junction: view #3

31. WWI Memorial junction: view #4

32. “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk... I have walked
myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so
burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.”
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

33. image courtesy:
Akash B
Aman Nath
Gaurav Vaidya
Mridul Batra
Venkataramanan Associates
www.children-of-bangalore.com
Yousef Anani