Water, Heritage, and Community

Bhoomika Yadav

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i06.31712

Water, Heritage, and Community

Author(s)	Bhoomika Yadav
Country	India
Abstract	The paper is trying to create a connection between water heritage structure, community, and urbanization. Many scholars have studied the importance of the revival of these water structures, focusing on the architectural value linked to it. Their focus was always on the architecture of the stepwell (underground water structure), construction materials, functionality, and designs. Another important aspect that needs to be consider while reviving the structure is its community. David Harvey's theory of the body as the driving machine can be applied to the community as a driving force in urban development. Here community also needs to be considered as the important infrastructure of the city. The modern perspective of urbanization is to make the city more livable, but the problem is the policies adopted are mainly making the community lose its culture and religious beliefs as well as the informal economy. The transformation of culture and value in present urban settlements concerning the people who are living there for a very long time is the reason for their criticism of the development proposed by the government. It's the dilemma that the community face force to choose between their space of hope And Hope of the future. On one hand, the proposal of new development is increasing the migration of people from their place, resulting in a massive demographic shift. Overcrowding, pollution, ethnic conflict are the problems that can be easily noticed. Whereas on the other hand it promises to give a new identity and vision of modernity to the community. People living around this historical underground structure have very bad living conditions, economically they are not stable because the traditional craft that they are skilled in is vanishing just like the heritage water structure. This urbanization is associated with these tow's major social, economic, and cultural transformations. The question is how people are surviving in this urban context and how WILL they survive if changes take place in their surroundings. The paper also tries to shed light on how these urban changes are used as leverages to lead monetary value by people at power and how it affects the community and the heritage they are connected to.
Keywords	Stepwell, Water heritage structure, Community, Space, Water, Sustainable development, Crafts.
Field	Sociology > Archaeology / History
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2024
Published On	2024-11-27
Cite This	Water, Heritage, and Community - Bhoomika Yadav - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i06.31712
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i06.31712
Short DOI	https://doi.org/g8r8fx

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