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              important to focus on ecology   service lanes in the grid       other essentials, collecting
              centric solutions other than    layout of certain areas which   garbage, etc. These also acted
              anthropocentric ones. The       are   contiguous    corridors   as thoroughfares. But with
              revitalization   of   natural   of   6m     width    running    development and increased
              systems should be the focus     along the backyards of the      use of motorable roads which
              and as the by-products of it,   residential plots. In the area   had access from the frontage
              human needs shall be met.       of Tilakwadi in  Belgaum        of the plots, these lanes merely
                                              city (Figure 4), the service    degraded down to being
              The  forgotten  underlying      lanes are existing along with   garbage dump lanes and called
              infrastructural corridor        the main roads throughout       ‘bhangibols’ (bhangi  –  a  local
              The     other     underlying    the neighbourhood. In the       name for garbage collectors)
              infrastructural system that     olden days, these were,         over the  years and  are now
              exists and is in degraded       used    for   services   like   cleaned up in parts and used
              and un-used state, is the       distributing newspapers and     for parking (Figure 5).



              Figure 4:  Google earth image showing Tilakwadi neighbourhood within Belgaum city, which
              has a continuous network of service corridors (in YELLOW) alternating with main roads (in
              RED), currently defunct.










































              (Source: Author)



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