Maximum Jayanagar The foundation of Jayanagar was laid in the year 1959. It was one of the first planned neighbourhoods in Bangalore and at the time, the largest in Asia. It is believed that the locality, designed by Sir M Visvesvaraya, is one of the best-planned layouts in Asia. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jayanagar,_bangalore 1/1
12 % The area under vegetation in the city declined from 71% in 1973 to 12% in 2012. Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_ bangalore-green-cover-down-from-71pct-to-12pct_1674594 1/2
Parkless There are 23 wards in Bangalore that have a park within walking distance from any point in the ward. In contrast, there are 14 wards of Bangalore that have no green cover or tree canopies at all. Source: http://bangalorepatrol.com/browning-of-bangalore.html 1/3
1/4 Gulabi Bangalore accounts for 70% of rose exports from India.
High Above Most of the roads are operating above their capacity and the volume. No 1 is Nrupatunga Road followed by District Office Road, K.G. Road, Lalbagh Fort Road, Puttanna Chetty Road and Richmond Road. Source: http://www.bangaloretrafficpolice.gov.in/index.php 1/5
Bengaluru Turf Tower 660 m (2165 ft) WORLD TRADE CENTER BANGALORE 128 m (420 ft) RISING HIGH Tall buildings in Bangalore: 38 completed, 53 under construction, 8 approved/proposed Bengaluru Turf Tower will be the tallest of all with 156 floors, which is 5 times as tall as the Bangalore World Trade Center. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_tallest_buildings_in_bangalore 1/6
Looking for 81 Will the master plan of tomorrow provide additional 81 tanks to develop Bangalore s water landscape sustainable? Even today the left 81 tanks in are Bangalore s largest water recourse. 1/7
1/8 Satellites BMRDA is planning to set up five satellite townships and develop them as self-sustainable cities. Under the city cluster development project, Bidadi will be developed as Knowledge City, Ramanagara as Healthcare city, Sathanur as Textile/Apparel city, Solur as Manufacturing city and Nandagudi as Hardware/Manufacturing city.
ipaida bribe Bangaloreans paid a whopping Rs 11.35 crore as bribe on 4,339 occasions. The city topped in paying kickbacks that ranged across 28 departments. A major chunk of money went for managing parking violations. Source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-21/ bangalore/31219729_1_bribe-last-yearbangaloreans-police-station 2/1
Green Sieve Bangalore s green belt is getting perforated. Already 41% got converted from agrarian land use pattern to urban development within 20 years. 2/2
Glitzy Bangalore is the costliest Indian city on the basis of India s Consumer Price Index. Source: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-03-29/ news/31254521_1_mumbai-and-delhi-bangalore-s-cpi-cities 2/3
GETTING DENSER The Density of Bangalore district for 2011 is 4,378 people per sq km. In 2001, Bangalore district density was at 2,985 people per sq km. Source: http://www.census2011.co.in/ 2/4
Garbage Mountains on Bangalore roads set to become bigger. Over 7,000 tonnes of garbage dumped here, there and everywhere. Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/ garbage-mountains-on-bangalore-roads-set-to-become-bigger/article4017326.ece?homepage=true 2/5
ಗಳ ನ ಒ ದ ಗವನ ಬದ ಸ ವ ಅ ರ ಮ ಕ ವ ಗವನ ಆ ಸ Where would you start to change the city? 2/6
Mallfunction 5666 Mantri Square in Malleswaram is South Asia s biggest Mall with a size of 1,700,000 sq ft. The size of a Dwelling Unit for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) is up to 300 sq ft. In conclusion 5666 households would fit into the Shopping Mall of Malleswaram. 2/7
READ IT The Average literacy rate of Bangalore in 2011 is 88.48 compared to 82.96 of 2001. If things are looked out at gender wise, male and female literacy were 91.82 and 84.80 respectively. Source: http://www.census2011.co.in/ 2/8
Government work is God s work. Inscription at the main entrance of the Vidhana Soudha (State Assembly) built in 1955. 3/1
1 Munich every 5 years 570 km² is the area between the BBMP jurisdiction circle and the total area under BDA. This corresponds to cities of a size like Munich, Manchester or even Hyderabad. 3/2
150 square feet for 6,3 persons The government of India calculated by taking the average multi earner household income of LIG and EWG that these groups are able to built a house for themselves with an average ground size of 300 600 sq ft (29 56 m²). But this is not the case, because construction and land prizes are high. So estimated these families only can build a house with the average ground size of 150 sq ft (15 m²). Is that a decent living space for a family with an average amount of 6,3 persons? 3/3 Source: Interview with Ramesh Ramanathan from JANAADHAR, done at the 15th of Dezember 2011 by Aline Löw & Clara Berger
ON/OFF Bangalore was the first city in India to have electricity in 1906: Today Bangalore experiences 2 to 4 hours of power cuts per day. Source: http://indiatogether.org/2012/jan/eco-power.htm 3/4
Future India In 1962, Jawaharlal Nehru remarked that Bangalore is a picture of India of the future, more specifically because of the science, technology and industries in the public sector here Source: http://www.india-seminar.com/2010/612/612_balaji_parthasarathy.htm 3/5
Who will build the city? India has only 45,000 architects but needed 366,000. It predicts that by 2020 the shortfall of core professionals involved in the building trade could be in tens of millions. Source: The Economist, India in Search of a dream, September 29th October 5th 2012 3/6
3/7 Endless Bangalore is one of the very rare cities in the world that is not attached to any geographical landmark. The topology of Bangalore is mainly flat and No major rivers run through the city.
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