Abstract:
Temporal activities and tourism networks are parallel to the Everyday life
activity networks but, these networks are clashing at certain points. Reframing of
incompatible activity network, Enhancement in the public places and public
buildings and will create a better quality of environment for the people.
Exploration of the cultural acts and values of indigenous liabilities need to explore
through the public realm strategies, which is missing tint in haphazard
development. The historic major buildings are in the core area of the city were
protected within the fortified wall. The buildings under gone several changes in
appearance and buildings uses, and the wall have broken down slowly. The new
urban development perspective is changing the perceptions of the historic core in
the structure of ordinary. It is connected to the surrounding by other means of
network like tourism and public activities related to the everyday life. "We observe
what always has been with us-not to discover, much less to invent, but to
recognize...N.J.Habraken". Recognition of character is needed for future time to
project the Kolhapur as a city of rich culture in the transformation processes.
Structure of the ordinary is to be understood for the changing trends of urban
form. The thrust is to strengthen public realm in core area and explore cultural
importance for the growth of the city by addressing the people acts of everyday
life activities and temporal activities network. The five elements of the city which
are stabilizer, splendid terraces, memorable streets, potentially interminable set
pieces, and ambiguous and composite buildings as per book collage city by Colin
Rowe and Fred Koetter, these elements are taken as basis for the intervening in
the historical Kolhapur city. The process of transformation will continue with
reference to these identified elements. It will result in proliferation of tourism,
exploration of culture and effective appreciation of public realm. The social,
cultural, economic and environmental values will be enhanced in whole process.
