Opportunities and Urgencies

Summing up site contextualisation

Opportunities

Extension of transit connectivity and upcoming TOD Zone along the riverfront

View points to and from the site

Increasing demand for community living and hence potential for development of other townships & amenities

Threats

Prosopis Juliflora within the site – long process required to be carried for ecological regeneration

Ash Pond within the site – restricted land which acts as a waste dumping site

Inaccessible Assets

Lack of Visibility

Poor

Quality of Life

Riverfront Phase II

Sabarmati River Motera Stadium Backdrop

WetlandDump + Ashpond

Degrading Ecology SITE

Lack of access/ safety

Motera Neighborhood

Olympics and its Impact 02

Organising large-scale urban events, like the Olympics, have become part of urban strategies by governments to improve the urban structure, to promote the city’s image in an international showcase and create economic growth.

This chapter gives an overview to the Olympic Games and how it can contribute to a host city’s urban development. It briefly explains, the working process of the Games with respect to city developments, IOC’s amendments, etc. It also presents a game plan which was an output of the basic learnings from global sceanrios, and the assumptions made inorder to prepare the game plan. This chapter ends with the definition of the problem statement which forms the base for the formulation of a vision, followed by a set of goals.