historiography
Methodological approach to the study of development of place or any other definition having imagined/ accepted significance is historiography. The case is towards staging the history for a contemporary piece of land in the center of city which people are aware of but is so overtly omnipresent that it gets overlooked. Facts about and for the place are diluted in the everyday. What can be considered noteworthy is a matter opinion. Should yesterday be history or do we have to wait a bit before its considered worthy to be recorded? A contemporary space, Bandra Kurla Complex is it really worth a discussion?
Even in today’s consideration, it’s identity is of an office block with glass buildings and open areas where the crowd gathers for political rallies and exhibitions. This is one end of the landscape. Entry to this imagination of the neighborhood is presently from an avenue with sound proofed residential complexes on its left and the right stages government establishments and office blocks for rent. A global vision as accessed from between homes and bureaucracy. Entrance in existential terms problematic as the area perceived and the area planned as the complex seem to be staged as two different entities. For the exercise the following is an extrapolated time line of 30 years documenting the several revisions to the delineation of the Special Planning Area. To the period of its establishment in ‘97 to the last major change on the map in '09, here history to be told isn’t what has happened but which has been erased or removed from the being brought in place, factors that has resulted in our understanding of the way this site has been imagined in the present.
01 _ 16th may 1979 - revised boundaries a block phase ii area included
02 _ 19th nov 1983 - cinema plot deleted, spastic society plot shifted to cinema theater, strip of land between drama theaters plot & spastic society plot added to drama theater, school plot allotted to vandre nagric shikshan society plot added to drama theater, area earlier earmarked to cultural center now earmarked for convention complex, 18.28m north south road proposed along the boundary of spastic society drama theater plot up to the proposed east west road, area of deaf & dumb institute corrected from 1.93ha
03 _ 16th may 1985 - alignment of 30m wide road in “H” block shifted best bus depot area increased to 2.28ha
05 _ 3rd may 1989 - planning proposals in respects of “F” block were approved - 1.067ha. of plot carved out for centre for the study of social changes, keeping the allotted area intact the overall dimensions slightly changed in respect of plot allotted to utter bhartiya sangh departments of archives & cemetery, openspace and stadium reservation combine to become 4.4606ha against 6.00ha
04 _ 9th jan 1990 - change of user of excess land admeasuring 679.50 sqmts out of maternity home & dispensary plot in a block from maternity home & dispensary user to residential user
07 _ 11th january 1990 - plot in “GN” block admeasuring 5000sq.m. 'electric receiving sub station’ changed to commercial for unit trust of india
06 _ 14th february 1990 - plot in a block admeasuring 2000sqm carved out of the bigger plot earmarked for convention complex changed cricket training centre
08 _ 11th january 2000 - user of social facility plot in “E” block shifted to “GN” block, revised bk rail link with traction sub station, commercial complex in proposed railway station in E & G blocks, commercial complex in proposed railway station in E & G blocks, 30m. wide road linking l.b.s road to ‘G’ block, extension of peripheral road in ‘G’ block, extension of peripheral road in ‘E’ block, modified alignment of 45m. road, 18m. road in ‘GN’ block deleted & 30m. road alignment shifted along periphery border of mmrda, 25m road in ‘GN’ block extended up to 45m. road, two new regulations 4a(i)(f) & (u) added in dcrs for bkc
09 _ 28th june 2002 - landuse of 0.5ha land in ‘G’ block changed from ‘residential’ to ‘social institutional complex’, land use of 0.4ha. land in ‘GN’ block changed from ‘residential’ to ‘social institutional complex’, land use of 1.24ha land in ‘H’ block changed from ‘residential’ to ‘social institutional complex’
11 _ 26th may 2003 - landuse changed from ‘social institutional complex’ to ‘school’
12 _ 22nd january 2004 - landuse changed from ‘residential’ to public purpose of educational or medical facility
13 _ 5th october 2004 - landuse of 4.0ha land in d1 block changed from railway uses to commercial uses, width of anant kanekar marg starting from the junction of western express highway shall be kept 30m upto end of the junction
14 _ 15th january 08 - landuse of 0.4ha land in ‘F’ block changed ‘stadium & openspace’ to ‘institutional’
15 _ 15th january 08 - ‘stadium & openspace’ to institutional’
16 _ 10th june 2008 - landuse changed from ‘social institutional complex’ to ‘school’
17 _ 26th february 2008 - landuse changed from ‘social institutional complex’ to ‘school’
18 _ 25th june 2009 - revised spa boundary of bkc
19 _ 25th june 2009 - ‘H’ block is deleted from bkc spa area & included in sector 5 of dharavi notified area
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Dates edited from modifications to the BKC Planning Proposals found in Land Use Proposal or D3 as published by MMRDA. Serial numbers as associated with the dates are revised to linearly represent the time.