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Director, Cities & Urban Landscape, Raahgiri Foundation

Gurugram, the millennium city, is a city witnessing rapid growth (in a decade its population has almost tripled) and also rapid degradation (of natural systems and infrastructure, traffic conflicts, flash floods, water scarcity, waste accumulation, deforestation, habitat loss, air, water and noise pollution).  Not very different from the challenges so many other developing cities face. Yet, nature constantly exhibits its wonderful capacity to be restored and rejuvenated. With a little help (and a lot of design) it finds a way to thrive. The beauty of design to adapt, innovate and create is in its details, its execution, overcoming challenges big and small, and creating possibilities for many more… Its impact is much more. The 5.6km Badshahpur Forest Corridor project transformed an abandoned, polluted urban wasteland, that formed part of a historic natural water system into an active, innovative, resource-conscious, and ecologically rich and an equitable community resource for the city of Gurugram, Delhi National Capital Region, India. Today it is showcase for simple, intuitive and replicable nature-based practices for waste management and innovative reuse, habitat restoration, storm water management and people-centric spaces through comprehensive landscape design. Multi-stakeholder collaboration on this citizen-group led project (I Am Gurgaon Latika Thukral ) on government land (GMDA (Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority) Municipal Corporation of Gurugram) with corporate funding, our (landscape architects Beyond Built, Nupur Prothi) design enabled innovation, adaptation and creativity typically not possible in most public projects, through a hands-on site-specific nature-based approach. #gurugram #ecorestoration #landscapeapproach https://lnkd.in/gUZcGjYD

2024 BADSHAHPUR FOREST CORRIDOR (Gurugram, Delhi NCR, India)

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Sandip Patil

Landscape Architect & educator

4mo

amazing! many congratulations! will definitely visit when next in Gurgaon

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Annaliese Bischoff

Professor Emerita, UMass

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A heartening example

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