Collage city urbanism a reading of Kolkata, India
By: Choudhury, Deepashree
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Contributor(s): Bhaduri, Sanjuktta.
Publisher: Mumbai Indian Institute of Architects 2021Edition: Vol.86(6), June.Description: 12-22p.Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here
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Journal of the Indian institute of architects :(JIIA)Summary: Contemporary cities exist as conglomerations of diverse
components, layers, narratives and imageries. The ‘urbanisms
of multiplicity’ they harbor require a new approach to urbanity
which addresses the unique challenges they face and enables
reconciliation between the existing urban differentials. This re-
search explores the contemporary cities as collage ensembles by
establishing their correspondence with the art and technique of
‘collage’. The treatise Collage City authored by Colin Rowe and
Fred Koetter and published by MIT Press in 1978 is selected as
the key text and urban constructs for studying the collage cities
are derived from it. Kolkata city, a metropolis in Eastern India is
critically assessed and Park Street, a 3.5 km-long thoroughfare
representing the working collage of the city is selected as the
detailed study area. The different stretches are then analyzed in
terms of urban spaces and facades and graded to reveal their var-
ied state of existence, that is, intra- and inter- stretch collages.
The findings conclusively prove that despite heterogeneous mor-
phological composition, enactment characteristics and the pres-
ence of varied temporal layers, Park Street is unified through dif-
ferent modes of reconciliation and thus acts as an urban collage.
An exploratory research strategy with a mixed-method approach
is adopted for this research.
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Contemporary cities exist as conglomerations of diverse
components, layers, narratives and imageries. The ‘urbanisms
of multiplicity’ they harbor require a new approach to urbanity
which addresses the unique challenges they face and enables
reconciliation between the existing urban differentials. This re-
search explores the contemporary cities as collage ensembles by
establishing their correspondence with the art and technique of
‘collage’. The treatise Collage City authored by Colin Rowe and
Fred Koetter and published by MIT Press in 1978 is selected as
the key text and urban constructs for studying the collage cities
are derived from it. Kolkata city, a metropolis in Eastern India is
critically assessed and Park Street, a 3.5 km-long thoroughfare
representing the working collage of the city is selected as the
detailed study area. The different stretches are then analyzed in
terms of urban spaces and facades and graded to reveal their var-
ied state of existence, that is, intra- and inter- stretch collages.
The findings conclusively prove that despite heterogeneous mor-
phological composition, enactment characteristics and the pres-
ence of varied temporal layers, Park Street is unified through dif-
ferent modes of reconciliation and thus acts as an urban collage.
An exploratory research strategy with a mixed-method approach
is adopted for this research.
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