urban parks have slowly and surely have evolved from being public to private.. then to supposedly public but more or less private.gross privatization of public space and have become more of instruments of aggression than that of harmony.
lucknow is the classic example of such an exercise.

through history Lucknow has been a city of parks.whether it were the Nawans or the British or in the recent times the various political regimes owing allegiance to right wing,socialist and the social engineering ideologies.
i do not see any city in India which has become the experimenting(read and its expression) ground of the political ideologue which each of these powers have expressed.
the parks in their constant reinvention have evolved from public spaces to private ones to the absurd display of political might.

mayank has been telling me for long that i should start blogging.
so here i am.
will keep on writing on and off about my understanding of urban dynamics.
the first thoughts are on politics of creating urban parks.
Rajat