The Importance Of Public Spaces In India

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Public places are an important part of urban life in a city. They are places which are open to all and function to provide a comfortable setting where one can go out and socialize and indulge in recreational activities. They are places that we all are free to use, as against the privately owned realm of houses and shops.
In India, most of the public spaces are organically developed, most of which are clubbed with / adjoining institutions and happened in relation to market spaces, known as ‘Bazaars’.
Ahmedabad is a city where you can spot life anywhere and at any time of the day. The people of Ahmedabad like to be outdoors and socialize for at least a few hours every day. Irrespective of the amount of work that a housewife has or the number of assignments a student has to complete or however big a day at work it is for a professional, we can see them hanging around with their friends / families / colleagues at different times of the day.
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Any public space in Ahmedabad is never devoid of life. A few of them have the same character throughout the day while in most of them, the character changes as the day …show more content…

Despite the apparent visibility of women in public spaces, in urban India, women do not share equal access to public space with men. A public space, in this case, includes squares, streets, maidans, footpaths, theatres, restaurants, bazaars, etc. The motto of the Second Wave Feminism, “the personal is political”, was one of the first attempts to break down the gendered division between; the private sphere that was attributed to women and that of the public sphere to men. Throughout history, women have always been associated with the private sphere, and men with the public; women are judged by the maintenance of the house and family and men, by how much they earn outside the

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