In the past ten years, cities have grown at an unprecedented rate. This fast rate of growth has a considerable effect on the physical aspects of the city. Expansions have taken place in both directions horizontal as well as vertical. The whole energy of building industry has focused on individual units, where each building looks different from the other with an obvious desire to dominate each other. This has overshadowed the other aspects of city building.
Cities have transformed over ages since time immemorial. Most of the cities were transformed without an intention of doing so; they simply transformed by defining and redefining the relationships as per the needs of the society. There was a belief in the innate process of development or transformation of cities-incremental growth and evolutionary process. Owing to technological advances, city expansions and transformations are happening instantly. This has left no scope for interpretation of relationships by users; rather users are given transformed spaces to adapt themselves to. This has induced a gap of procedural evolution between what existed and what is existing.
Considering the old cities and the city extensions, the morphology has transformed to an extent that one finds it difficult to recognize a certain city from its form, street character or urban spaces. Within a certain city the walled area lends a unique, coherent and a united character; whereas all the new developments are similar and are fragmented. It lacks a sense of oneness or unity of urban form. The fabric fails to create a whole, a singular entity. The relationship between the Urban form and the Urban Space constitute the essence of the city. Any modulation in the relationship is reflected and felt in the form and space. A City is hence a set of typologies of relationships.
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