Appropriating the Public Realm: Overlapping Placemaking Practices in Avenues and Roundabouts of Chandigarh

Authors

  • Anil Singh Thakur

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15415/cs.2014.21002

Keywords:

roundabouts and migrants, placemaking practices

Abstract

The paper characterises the persisting interplay between two worlds: the heroic of modern planners; and the prosaic of the poor city practitioners that revolves around their everyday life. It is about conlicting and dual(istic) placemaking practices: irst, that are motivated professionally, normatively, politically and are instutionalised (formal); second, the self-initiated of the marginal migrants seeking ‘right to the city’. The engagement between the two varies across places and times. Observations on Chandigarh’s avenues, afterthought roundabouts and migrants’ insertions in them and the accounts of the actors were acquired by the author between June 2006 and February 2007. They uncovered the techniques and tactics that the migrants deployed to sustain their objectionable commercial ventures in the city’s abovementioned forbidden territories.

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Published

2014-07-25

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2014): The Public Realm

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