Assessing The Impact Of High Rise Residential Building On Placemaking Of Neighborhood: A Case Of Westar Residency And Sun- City Apartment
Date
2022-09
Authors
Mishra, Aakriti
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IOE Pulchowk Campus
Abstract
Nepal is a developing country where urbanization is taking place at a rapid pace. The
urbanization is mostly concentrated at the major cities of the country mainly on
metropolitan, sub-metropolitan and municipalities. Kathmandu, being the capital city of
Nepal is the most populated urban region of the country, with an estimated population of
2.54 million, and is growing at 6.5% every year. Kathmandu alone accounts for 1/12 of
Nepal's total population i.e. 1,521,057. Such an immense pattern of growing population has
put the land and housing situation into huge pressure in Kathmandu Valley. In order to
manage such an urban sprawl, it is high time we switch to vertical built environment to live
in. However, high rise buildings are often blamed for crimes, anxiety and degeneration of
urban morphology as they deform the quality by overloading the density, infrastructures
and public realm where the building is standing in. On one hand, high rise are considered
responsible for degeneration of urban morphology and on another hand high-rise buildings
are today a prime feature of urban living, making up a large proportion of cities, skylines
and architecture. The research thereby, explore the contribution of high rise apartments in
placemaking of the surrounding neighborhood
Description
Nepal is a developing country where urbanization is taking place at rapid pace.
Although, Nepal is one of the ten least urbanized countries in the world yet it is also
one of the rapidly urbanizing countries in South Asia (Devkota, 2018). The data shows
that from the year 2010 to 2015, Nepal experienced one of the highest rates of
urbanization in the world (Clewett, 2015). According to (Statista, 2021), the
population residing in urban area has increased to 20.58% in 2020 as compared to
17.11% in 2011. In this verse of urbanization, most of the development in Nepal is
concentrated in large and medium cities i.e. metropolitan, sub-metropolitan and
municipalities (Twayana et al., 2021).
Keywords
High rise residence, place making, neighborhood