Abstract
Owing to its large scale of development Bengaluru has been acting as a magnet attracting influx of population in to the city. The industrialization, changing economic drivers, and dominance of private over public interests led to over exploitation of the ecological resources. Thus, creating a short extractive cycle of the economy and the very long cycles involved in the creation and restitution of natural resources leading to a huge 'metabolism rift’, further causing the ecological imbalances. These imbalances though visible but were not being managed at the required pace; the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has helped in sudden realization of restoring these imbalances. Particularly with reference to Bengaluru city, which was once called the ‘city of lakes’, is now facing the crisis related to quality and sustenance of those lakes. To ameliorate the situation there have been piecemeal efforts in terms of planting trees, cleaning water, etc. but an integrated approach with respect to each lake has been missing at the city level due to lack of management. This paper is an attempt to critically assess the condition of lakes in Bangalore and select a case to provide solutions to replenish them and make them more people centric. To achieve this the following steps will be followed a) Studying the overall metabolic flow of water resource including the demand, supply, types of resources, etc. of the city and contribution of lakes in that; b) analysing the condition of lakes in Bangalore c) selection of the lake for the case study providing recommendation and urban design solutions for that.
