Satyaki Sarkar

Integrated Conservation of the Historic Urban Core: the Portrait of B.b.d. Bag Kolkata Satyaki Sarkar

Kolkata, is the nerve centre of eastern part of India. Once the capital of British India, it was the hub of Raj's Business and industry. And within this city of Kolkata, B. B. D. Bag has always been the hub of administrative and business activity. There exist numerous historical buildings, which directly or indirectly play an important role in our day to day life. This B. B. D. Bag area is under severe stress in terms of loss of historicity, rupture of historic fabric and tremendous economic pressure and externalities trying to make an indentation into the very historicity of the area. This book deals with integrated urban conservation from holistic point of view. It not only delineates the future ?Heritage District? of Kolkata but lays known new set of urban design guidelines for new construction as well as for conservation of old, provides policies and recommendations to solve traffic, parking, hawkers and other inherent problem and lastly proposes an organizational structure to combat deterioration. This book tries to give the area; a new and desired look so that it becomes the pride of the city, a place to meet the needs of many.