The Labours of a Park: Green Infrastructure in Bangalore
- Vol.71(1), Sep
- Mumbai Marg Publications 2019
- 28-37p.
With a focus on Bangalore, this essay offers eight propositions to consider parks as an important aspect of urban infrastructure. The writer argues that parks are the result of infrastructure making as well as the site for future infrastructure production. They move between discourses on the natural, the common, and the public in one arena; land development and built constructions in another; and aesthetics, heritage and ecology in yet another. A discussion on how parks are refashioned according to changing economies and lifestyles, political demands and civic restrictions highlights the room they offer for imagining and re-imagining the city.