IMPACT OF PROPSED OUTER RING ROAD ON TRADITIONAL SETTLEMENT OF KATHMANDU VALLEY - LUBHU

Abstract

The Kathmandu metropolitan city (KMC) is the capital and largest city in Nepal. Almost 700,000 people live here amidst a swirl of business, industry, politics, old temples and colorful festivals. Kathmandu has expanded into a modem international metropolis while still preserving its ancient culture and architectural heritage. Similarly Kathmandu attracts people from different part of the country in search of various opportunities. Regardless of the various planning efforts initiated by different governmental or non-governmental agencies, the urban development has been creating urban sprawl in unplanned and haphazard fashion, thereby making difficulties in urban service provision.

Similarly, unplanned settlements and density of vehicles and pedestrians are increasing enormously at the periphery of existing ring road, which was constructed in the early seventies by the technical and financial assistance from China.

In this thesis report, the topic itself reflect the main theme of the study. Here basically the economic impact and hence the transformation possibility has been incorporated due to the proposed outer ring road. This thesis report tries to consider mainly the land use, housing pattern and the economic activities that are going to change due to concept outer ring road in the case of Lubhu. Since the outer ring road is still in conceptual stage, it is not sure that outer ring road would exist and the experiences that have been drawn from the case studies would cater the similar properties. Beside the major economic indicators, major part of the impact parameters have been considered. To fulfill the requirement to mitigate the economic transformation the similar case of impact of ring road in Balaju has been considered. The abstract of this thesis report stands with the view of change occur in particular place after the construction of the ring road. Since the study area here is Lubhu, which is traditional settlement of the Katmandu valley, the possible impacts have been assessed with careful scrutiny based on the primary as well as secondary data