It was all about reliving charms of old city with its unique pol house with community neighbourhood, traversing narrow streets with thriving city life renowned author Esther David kept the ...

The glow came from the sense of community that only a pol ... western Ahmedabad's malls and multiplexes and high-rises, except that it left the soul in the crumbling walls of the old city and ...

The old, walled city of Ahmedabad is a contrast to the new city ... The old city has around 360 ‘pols’ or gates with the Mahurat Pol being the first. Each pol, in some cases suffixed with ...

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation / Centre for Conservation Studies, CEPT University. Source: World Heritage Nomination dossier 1551. Each neighbourhood is divided in different gated main streets (pol .

An iconic feature of Ahmedabad’s old city are the pols, which are gated housing clusters that would house entire communities. A traditional house in pol is typically a multi-storey house with a ...

It’s no secret, however, that the pols, “representing a masterpiece of human creative genius”, have propelled Ahmedabad, the most spirited city in the western Indian state of Gujarat ...

Scottish polymath Patrick Geddes visited Ahmedabad to provide the municipality with town planning advice. There were voices at the time calling for the demolition of the five-century-old City ...