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the railway track in mind, well as environmental value to DUAC Publication: City Level
such as by incorporating the open space. This renewal Projects, Delhi Greenways
grade changes, green slopes will encourage people to
and bio swales, transparent be responsible partners in ( http://e.duac.or g/
obstruction etc. sustainable development, images/pdf/4%20Delhi%20
and as a result, city’s living Greenways.pdf)
Currently, the railway buffers condition will improve. A
are being hidden off from happy city is a healthy city Bhaduri Amita(2016),
the city by constructing tall and happiness comes with Once a drain, now a sewer,
boundary walls on either livability. India Water Portal |dated:
side of the railway track. This 05.05.2016
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CONCLUSION AND
WAY FORWARD
HUDCO CSR initiative
In dense city cores, with
urban transformation and Under HUDCO CSR initiative, 2 fully equipped Ambulance
renewal of built and growing Vans were handed over by HUDCO Team to the Civil
land values, it is difficult Hospital, Ahmedabad in an inauguration programme
to allot land specifically for organized on 09.07.2021 through virtual mode presided over
recreation. Hence the best way by Shri M. Nagaraj, Director (Corporate Planning), HUDCO.
to revive these cores and make
them livable within cities is to
tap on existing parcels of land
and deriving and reinstating
lost networks between
them, to claim the open
spaces. Looking at existing
infrastructure corridors
and natural systems for this
purpose can be the starting
point. Redevelopment and
rejuvenation will not only
ensure the availability of
public open space but will also
add functional, ecological, as

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