[378-12]. Singh, Rana P.B. and Pal, Neelam 2012. Varanasi: Master Plans and Perspectives of Heritagescapes; in, Singh, K.N. and Rana, N.K. (eds.) Holistic Development: A Regional Perspective (original) (raw)

The city of Varanasi since the past and in the present is an exceptional testimony to living traditions to be seen, performed and to be believed in religious faith, rituals and myriad festivals, traditional and ancient forms of lifeways that makes it the cultural capital of India. Presently it suffers in lack of strategies for sustainable and liveable urban planning. It is realised that there should be close dialogues and discourses between the government agencies and stakeholders public. The present transformation, if not checked, will harm the ecological system, heritagescapes, and equilibrium of land use due to lop-sided approach. It is expected that the current ongoing Master Plan 2031 would take care of these issues at all the levels of five spatial units, while sustainably interlinking mass of population, land uses, heritage issues, amenities and facilities, and all associated attributes to make Varanasi eco-friendly and liveable city where historicity be continued in its cultural traditions and reflected in its happy and beautiful places for once this City was known in the past. Keywords: city personality, heritagescapes, cultural landscapes, population density, Master Plan, liveable city.

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