spaces, cultivated terraces to lawn spaces and finally terminating at the surrounding rural or suburban area which is sprawling and wild. - These are well connected walking landscapes that are socially active and would act as assembly spaces for various social activities like cultural gathering etc., that do not happen within buildings. - CPULS could be interpreted as parks or urban forests or wildernesses or green lungs for the city; they could also function as axes of movement and direction to travel, or places for reflection. - Development of CPULs would not involve knocking down the existing structures or erasing a pre-existing piece of urban fabric. Instead they would integrate and grow on top of the characteristics that are native to the city by superimposing and weaving through it a multiuser landscape strategy to the preexisting or newly reclaimed urban space.
Figure 19: CPULs weave through the existing urban fabric as multi-user, productive landscapes
- They would exist in association with several types of open and enclosed urban space types, complementing their design and at the same time adding a sustainable element to the city. - CPULs could be customised to specific urban conditions by fulfilling their own functions in a fluidly loose yet improvising manner. - Although the CPULs act as spaces for leisure and recreational activities, access routes, carbon sinks, the most unique and productive use for it 33
