PLANNING FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF EAST FORT AREA OF TRIVANDRUM CITY

Abstract

Development is a dynamic phenomenon, and the development of the cities are also not an exceptional one. The origin and growth of the cities taught very good lesson to the mankind to develop the cities in scientific and orderly manner. Over the centuries, several cities had grown, expanded, and some were even perished due to several factors. As a result redevelopment of urban centre concept was evolved and implemented, which pave the way for even rethinking towards modernization of old cities. Trivandrum city is also not left out from redevelopment since the city has grown from time immemorial and also it was developed in an unplanned manner. In this present investigation and attempt is made to analyse the problems of the East Fort area of the Trivandrum city and to prepare a redevelopment plan for scien-tific and systematic development since the area is highly congested, over crowded, problematic, lack of infrastructure facilities, traffic jams, and also the commercial nuclei of the city. Having this redevelopment programme in mind, some plausible objectives are prepared, and conducted thorough investigation based on the objec-tives. A set of policy guide lines and a redevelopment plan are prepared for effective implementation of the study area for scientific development. The author fields that the plan proposal would be a panatia to solve all the problems in the study. area and it would pave the way for real development.