Excelsior Correspondent
KATRA, Nov 16: Ar Anoop Sharma- Asst. Professor of the Department of Architecture, SMVDU, presented his Research proposal about the ‘A pilgrimage town as an Impetus for the urban development in surrounding Fringes- Potentials & Proposals’ in prestigious International Annual conference ” SPACES & FLOWS”, held at University of Pennsylvania-USA.
Conference saw rigorous and healthy dialogue amongst reputed Academicians and professionals from the field of Architecture, Urban Planning/Design from leading Universities of the world.
Dr Sharma’s research proposal highlighted the Urban growth pattern of Katra in last 20-25 years critically and further, with the help of judicious case studies of pilgrimage towns like Madurai, Kanchipuram etc; stress was laid upon the advance strategy for the future urban development pattern of potential surroundings of Katra with safety, ecology and image of the area in priority without harming the economic benefits out of pilgrimage for the State and country at large. Pilgrimage Architecture of Katra and proposal regarding the same for its surroundings was also touched upon in the proposal with judicious examples/studies.
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