BYC Opinion leaders - Sriram Ganapathi
Channel: BuildYourCity
Date: 2012-03-24

Sriram Ganapathi, MD - KSM Consultants

"Very often, we forget that cities are made for people. Cities are more oriented towards cars, vehicles... the way our city spaces are delineated, they are more delineated towards vehicles rather than people. The first thing that a city needs is a good, decent, comfortable public system of transport. This will knock off a lot of air pollution. You cannot walk on the streets today, because there is no place to walk. You can get knocked down. It's most dangerous to walk. It's impossible to cross the road. Care should be taken to help the pedestrians to use the city a lot better than what it is today. The public spaces... We need to start creating public spaces... we should look at rejuvenating and recalibrating our public spaces. Apart from the beach we have, we have two rivers... we can develop the waterfront as a public space where people can hang out.  We should make our buildings more climate sensitive, use less energy, make it more comfortable for the people to live in... make buildings better and more viable and sensitive to the environment we are part of. That I think should be the way forward."

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Sriram Ganapathi has been a part of KSM since its inception and has been working towards energy efficient and climatically relevant architecture. Having become one of the 'Young Designers' cited by IA&B (Indian Architect and Builder) in 2002, he firmly believes that the design process is as important as the designed artifact itself. A M. Arch. from the School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, Sriram is a member of the Council of Architecture, India.

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