Concept for 85 acres Walkers Township for M/s Gammon India at Bangalore
Integrated eco cities or ‘walkers' townships are considered a progressive new approach worldwide to absorb the impacts of new development and simultaneously revitalize the other areas including sensitive heritage areas. |
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| The basic assumption of an eco city or walkers' townships is |
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That all daily activities of at least 60% of the people in the core, such as going to work, going to school, shopping for essentials, every day essential services, recreation facilities such as sports and cultural activities should all be within walking distance – say 500m to 800m from the place of residence. |
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To facilitate this, commercial spaces, residential spaces, recreational spaces are all to be given a high F.A.R of up to 6 or more interspersed with open landscaped areas. |
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Within this compact core, there shall be only pedestrians and bicycles / roller skates etc making it people friendly and automobile unfriendly… |
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Integrated land use combining commercial, residential, recreational and institutional spaces ensures 24 hours activity within the City Centre. This discourages crime, which otherwise is on the increase in dedicated commercial zones which become deserted ghost towns in the night. |
