Initially created as a response to the harsh climate, the city has evolved into a spontaneous, exhilarating and compassionate atmosphere. Alison Smithson emphasises on the need to understand the relationship of space-quality to life-quality, she claims further that “Man’s need of identification in space through built environment corresponding to ‘ownness’ has more to do with the kind of space he uses than with the amount of space he owns. (And I think this is true for all scales, from house to region).” (Smithson, 1964, p. 12). Since the elements of transformation are efficient in maintaining this relationship; a threshold can be estimated as a powerful tool to bring and sustain life around city structures. The old city of Jodhpur expresses such transitional fundamentals on varying scales.
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