The cities are expanding rapidly all over the world. India has also experienced this phenomenon and has continued the pace of growth. The recent trends in spatial growth of the cities are a new phenomenon in Indian urban landscape. The cities in India are witnessing development with the help of private developers for the last couple of decades. Being private properties these are by nature of exercising control have gates and boundaries. In scholarly literature these are called as Gated Community/Gated Development. Authors have argued them from various perspectives of anthropology, law, management and sociology etc. but very little has been discussed about their planning and morphology. Although, the rise of Gated Development is majorly attributed to the sense of fear and need for security, yet architects and urban designers, and even sociologist stress upon other methods to make the neighbourhoods secured. Hence the security aspects are not made part of the research here. The aspects of how these gated development impacts the perception of neighbourhood by residents is not touched upon. The paper discusses the distinction between the gated and non-gated neighbourhoods and also how residents perceive their neighbourhoods at large. For explaining this phenomenon, three neighbourhoods in the city of Gurugram in Haryana state in India have been identified as case study. These are identified on the basis of different morphological images that are identified. Space syntax and space cognition through sketch mapping is used for the analysis of the three neighbourhoods. The paper suggest that the continuity and connectivity of any spatial configuration is of utmost importance to make neighbourhood environment worthy of living life more socially connected.
The formation of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) in 1977 paved the way for a planned growth of the state of Haryana. Development of neighbourhoods, in the form of sectors, has witnessed great transition since the inception of this regulatory body. Sectors of Gurgaon that were developed before HUDA came into existence showcase a different form of urban development. Gating is one of the contemporary phenomenons of urban development. Ever since the involvement of private developers in urban development, gating has become an unavoidable part of neighbourhood development. Gated developments lead to full control over the street network of the development. This paper tries to bring out the difference in the changing street pattern through syntactical analysis of streets of sectors. The main objective is to understand the configurational differences in the neighbourhood street pattern by using syntactical parameters of street network. For this objective, three different sectors (Sector 4, 56 and 49) showcasing different growth patterns have been compared and analysed. The study has been divided into five major parts with the first part introducing the problem. The second part of the paper through literature review discusses various space syntax parameters/characteristics and presents their definitions. The third part presents methodology of study and introduces the case study areas. The fourth part puts forth the result and the fifth one draws conclusion of the entire study. The study reveals Sector 4 as more intelligible and having higher synergy value compared to sector 49 which is completely gated and privately developed.
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