Sabarmati river has been an integral part of the life of Ahmedabad since the time the city was founded. But as the city grew, the river bore the brunt of its development. it resembled any other Indian river of the day, polluted to a level where its water was no longer clean. Later efforts were taken to revitalize the river. The land has been reclaimed and redeveloped into city-level public space where people of Ahmedabad have access to the riverfront. But today, when we observe Paldi’s riverfront, we can observe how communities have turned their back to the river, wherein the excellent opportunity this riverfront provides is somewhere lost.
The proposal identifies TOZ LAP as an opportunity to explore the possibility of connecting neighbourhoods abuting the river, physically and socially, and also programmatically bringing activities that would bring the river to the forefront of urban transformation and development.
