21st Century (2000–present)

Thiruvananthapuram Master Plan

2012 · India · South Asia · National modernization and capital-city building · Planned by TRIDA
Sanctioned Proposed Land Use Map (sheet MP/04, 1:30,000) for Thiruvananthapuram, showing the core area, priority development zone, transit-oriented development corridors along the proposed LRTS and NH, IT park and tourism zones, and coastal and inland conservation zones.
Sanctioned Proposed Land Use Map (sheet MP/04, 1:30,000) for Thiruvananthapuram, showing the core area, priority development zone, transit-oriented development corridors along the proposed LRTS and NH, IT park and tourism zones, and coastal and inland conservation zones. · © Department of Town and Country Planning, Kerala — used with credit · Department of Town and Country Planning, Government of Kerala / Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, Thiruvananthapuram Master Plan Proposed Landuse Map MP/04 (1:30,000)

Core idea

Corridor nodes and green protection

Why it matters

Capital city consolidation

Description

A master plan for Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala, prepared around 2012 under the Thiruvananthapuram Development Authority (TRIDA). The plan structures growth along corridors and nodes linking the historic core, the administrative centre and the emerging technology hubs on the city's edge, while seeking to protect green and low-lying land in a dispersed, garden-like urban region. It provides the statutory land-use framework for the capital's consolidation.

Significance

The plan is characteristic of Indian master planning for state capitals, balancing administrative and heritage functions with the growth pressures of the IT economy, in this case around Technopark. It feeds wider debates on whether India's development-authority master plans can keep pace with actual urbanisation, and on planning for Kerala's distinctive dispersed settlement pattern.

What shaped it

Sources

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