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Published: 2017-09-14
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYrcUt8iEM0
mmhm I begin with the scene this is a scene from the semi final football match of the nineteen fifty six Melbourne Olympics India played Yugoslavia to finish school the best ever performance of India out the Olympics in football up to date and so he says this is a team it made it happen in rent a players from but that wasn't to be underlined in red including
the legend calls site of the PGA him who took football integrate high sitting down the trail and in fact we made game all of them came from us equality of hype about from the locality of money by me to be so over the next few decades of high goodbye and especially those for money but he phoned the spying all football eating desk a football team %HESITATION
incidently last month three area youngsters spend too shitty to represented in the under nineteen football team so what is it about my family that has shown up footballers %HESITATION of national and international repute even today is it accidental no it's not but to understand what it is we need to go back a hundred years over a hundred years we go back to nineteen twelve we go
back to the time when a hype about hedonism now Bob so me this money because the seventh of the most controversial of them as iams I just become than usual Delphi hype about but he had become the sum in troubled times I'm to bug was just reading from two calamities first there was the flood of nineteen oh eight which had taken over fifty thousand lives and
discharged and housing homes this was followed by an epidemic of playing in nineteen eleven and this created we did even more damage and of a lot of the loss of life is a hundred thousand lights of the thank you Bob wills in nineteen eleven so that was a great need to do something and do something urgently and then there's some set up a city improvement board
to help citizens of five about and debate kind about the biggest city to live in but even before the board was set up I so wish me should idea an eminent engineer a statesman who later went on to become the of the bottom of my soul he was not acted and he was also given the bottom right now he was invited to Hyderabad in nineteen oh
nine see what could be done to make kind about more hygienic %HESITATION I'm to prevent such calamities as such massive disasters from happening so he spearheaded seven projects but amongst them he Musta minded what we remember that hides about to do what you got to about today as a great landmarks that he might sound good and the woodsman saga does it was he created this up
street you gotta constructed them upstream from the river to prevent slugs but also to assist in navigation to a scale that has ever seen in the state before and you also %HESITATION these are also to provide drinking water for the citizens of Hyderabad and this didn't do so we still get our water from the studios of us %HESITATION what we see today I had said earlier
when he started this work was that whatever the proposals that they choose to do in the state they have to be economic and efficient in the long term he had also used in supposed which we think to bail Martin so for example he used the words of tree lined boulevards as being the young spaces for the sick and he also said that the army but the
proposals should be aimed at making people's lives better at making them happier and that was what was the clear mandate when the board was set up in nineteen twelve sorry that it took a bit grainy but the bulk of the mandate of the board was to improve the social model and a physical conditions of the citizens this book was set up in nineteen twelve and function
under nineteen fifty six when it became part of the AP housing board and these hot tears it reshape tied about the cleared slums they built new homes they made public buildings civic buildings hospitals colleges but they also changed the skyline of hype about but planners of architects engineers but also booked missing hockey coaches they were sent abroad to Europe is to go to America and to
the UK to see what has been going what is going on in the months he's over there bring back what was relevant to the hype about convicts %HESITATION and this they did and they also brought together brought back with them concepts again today we consider a modem so water recycling %HESITATION separating the storm water which would go directly into the river they also talked about the
play and they also did %HESITATION heritage preservation re using old buildings today we know that reusing old buildings reduces the cop in print they did this inhabited by the hundred years ago but the first thing they did was to decongest the city %HESITATION hype about the planned Stephen it was formed in fifteen ninety one %HESITATION and at that time %HESITATION it was laid on a double
grid to %HESITATION basis phone fifty nine to one on to nineteen twelve which is over three hundred years it had gone and a half has a fat it had grown but the job but not at the center and it had grown outputs from that so it had become very congested and the Samogitian was really not up to the the first thing the board did was to
decongest all of that and they created about twelve point eight five square kilometers of green area and this considering the one spot at the limit of hype about eighty four square kilometers rafia comes to one sixth of the city being deliberately green and this they did by getting up swampy areas select the masa dia masa which is %HESITATION was that we must have not gotten %HESITATION
was this won't be %HESITATION had become the swampy lake so they can go back out to pickup remove disease like Malaysia created a pop still is a pop today seven localities also even begin the dance hall of the old city will clear up to Maine gardens fox trees a lot of the deep condition was also to create two concentric growers the inner and the outer ring
road and these were designed to take shots away from the cold of the old city and only bring traffic into the city where %HESITATION incidently the outfitting road was completed in two thousand twelve what we know today as the OR I a bath was based stuff is designed on the basis of the on the basis of the design given by the CIB of course the rich
not Wadada covered in area fifty kilometers and today is what outcome was inevitable but given that the city today it a hundred and twenty five square kilometers recently what was then originally planned if the four square kilometers of Elijah and one can understand why was there but the idea is that the whole concept easing traffic and creating the starving roads the thing that was flattened by
the CI be %HESITATION the second step was to designate districts so some frustration and I was extremely particular that I'm a good time so you don't think you can see it but the the river district what you see in green on either side of the river in the center he wanted to own this movie did to the the civic district of Hyde about to be at
the very cold another important reason important reason for that is that the heart of the city did not shift which is something we see today the hot to main credit was civic buildings public buildings again tough as the main part of phase will buy the Revo on either side of it what you see in being cutting across the bed to commit to it a commercial district
the houses invoked in more fun around president should I guess with the green benefits %HESITATION up to the top right through the northeast the industrial area which is again today known as the album about industrial estate all of these were designed by the CIA be well the next step was to take ideas and translate them into and that is exactly what they did next so you
have the %HESITATION this is the scene of the river most in the river district of a Baptist it's called and they created five kilometers of stone about I've decided to remove seats and also filmed in a lake over there so that that would be what a productivity in the city of hype about must remember the movie season is the season of the vote so it would
have a watch only football the yeah but the damage in such a way that it would have water throughout they also made public buildings and %HESITATION gardens you you can see the ups I got most of them all and how to fathom it now this again was deliberate the reason that they made public buildings because they feared that if ever there should be another spate of
the river mostly there should be a minimum loss of lives and that could only be guaranteed of that but no homes that and no homes would be guaranteed of public buildings to so it was all well thought out so today the High Court in the distance of the background that the first public building to be decided on the south back of that removes the India nineteen
sixteen this was followed by the City College in nineteen seventy and in nineteen twenty five use mine at General Hospital all three of these buildings were designed by Vincent ash a British aqueduct was brought in by the Nizam and he was given a very clear briefs he was told you all buildings all these buildings must represent two got objects of fabric what the state stands for
they must stand for community how many and social cohesion so the mandate was very clear it was not often talked it was not something that was done whimsically so what Vincent does have to do he had them taken often includes them because I know that from temple and combined them with with a shocking dorms gauge ways from me that a colonnade someone about god so the
whole look of the Deccan that stood for some criticism got cosmopolitanism was shown to the buildings through architecture which really is the most visual home of all lots and this was something that was meant to last I lost it has the last building to be built on the riverfront was the US appeals state library that was constructed in nineteen thirty two these buildings made of traditional
but that has nothing to bestow upon them except that the way they don't accept the golf except the architects of fabric these will condemn turning both in their use and the materials that were used to build them with %HESITATION he was for example the High Court the potatoes they want the jadis had given way to a higher court Ramadhan court I use mine in a hospital
amongst the largest autocratic hospitals in the world when it was designed even by today's standards is considered to be a large hospital second the materials ICC in steel but just being introduced as building materials yeah and all of this the IB used books RCC and Steven it extensively in their work and that's what it made hype about one of the earliest cities in India to use
our seas they also constructed shopping arcades shopping districts so the Buckeye Becky shopping on fixing him constructed in nineteen thirteen continues to be a very popular shopping destination in the old city even and what can be considered this hype about SFO shopping mall in the Muslim dying market that in nineteen thirty five but perhaps what is most most meaningful at most impacting the work that the
CIB did was there caring of the slums and creating homes %HESITATION in forty years they built over three thousand homes in fourteen specially designed look at these this started with the locality of nam but leave but the epidemic of late had begun I moved both north and south of town but we because I'm connected these residential colonies as they went along each of these localities had
was self contained so they had to school they had to keep a part of other hospital they had %HESITATION Vietnam's Medan score tax and this is when we come back to where we started we come back to my life I lead and what a good money but we produce so many football does but the on site is really about is the because they've been given the
facility Monday but he was designed you can see on the map and then on the Google image was designed around it grounds which were used as football grounds and the way in the locality was designed was that it happened %HESITATION it had the %HESITATION the houses around the football grounds the idea was that the mothers could watch the children play in the evenings the children went
down complex safely right in front of their homes they practice and the extent of what they did and they don't I'm going to be great for the photos so it was just because the facility was provided in such a not so we have to them now houses themselves they were designed not to in the in it department that we have today locked in the traditional hype
about the wait so you had a courtyard in every house you had accepted the non intrusive and you have a set Madonna and from they were all such a book that I was out of sight all platforms where people could sit and again all the all the good qualities that the design designed in such a way that the the sixty the Senate the look of the
day was built upon the perfect was left open port Townsend playgrounds of this whole concept of even things open space to grieve button bright trickle down all the way to now but if I didn't just produce %HESITATION football does it also produced playwrights puts a get busted theater personalities and bane does so shut my mouth means mother comes from a live body sodas you got the
bottle who's a great deal of the court I thought that my friends who was I to buzz among type that's most well known painters so they all came in and they attribute the atmosphere off my live by me great key to what the success of excesses have been because they say the atmosphere was conducive to dialogue to talk to interact with community and this is something
which we seem to have forgotten in our designs today it's just impossible to study my neck binding simply because it is one of the very few localities that was designed by the CIB that has that was not destroyed some go look at it is that the design by them like head of the box have been destroyed beyond recognition today so it's not possible ready to study
them and see what really the impact it's been %HESITATION but the CIB left a very good record of what they did they published very meticulous %HESITATION reports every year rich %HESITATION which outlined their work out how they did you know what they did %HESITATION how they did it I'm so it's possible to look at these and study and understand what their intentions were %HESITATION their work
was of the Stalin improvement just I got the bug which was then under the British chose to follow the Hyderabad model for the CIP and not look %HESITATION active %HESITATION at the British presidencies like Madrazo you gotta go down to see what they could take from that further afield in Britain that itself was undergoing massive %HESITATION %HESITATION rebuilding after the between the two was between one
ball one of World War two that is from Britain game type about to see what kind of what they could learn from high good by the day in fact I missed a dongle about Donna from the out IBM wrote that this that I should come and none from high above market because they did not build castles in the clouds but have the means and the will