International Journal of Engineering Research in Computer Science and Engineering (IJERCSE)

Reviving the Metropolitan Lost Spaces by Rethinking the Urban Voids

Author : Ar. Akshat Chouhan ¹ Ar. Apurva Gour ²

Date of Publication :20th May 2021

Abstract: Meteoric urbanization often results in heterogeneous development of different parts of a city. Any city grows with the technology's advancement and infrastructural development, leaving behind many old structures which was once an important part of the city. Urban lost spaces are spaces which was at one time a principal part of the city have now lost their existence functionally but we can still glimpse their footprint in the city fabric. These spaces might not be just vacant land or a gentrified space for city fabric but also an underused structure. Urban lost spaces rupture the urban fabric of a city. The paper will establish the reasons for the creation of these urban lost spaces and their impact on the urban social fabric and will discuss urban lost spaces in an infrastructural lost spaces category of a city with some case examples of cities concluding to develop a framework for identifying and analyzing the types of lost space to lay the groundwork for formulating strategies for reviving urban lost spaces.

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