Biodiversity Lakepark

Abstract

Cities are often born on rivers or on coasts. Water is the lifeblood of all human civilisation, and cities have grown around water. Bengaluru is a unique city that thrives around lakes instead of rivers or the sea. It had hundreds of lakes in and around it, and lakes that survive today are a fraction of what once flourished in this heart of the South Indian peninsula.Bengaluru was born with the creation of lakes, almost 500 years ago. Kempe Gowda I, the local feudatory of the Vijayanagara Empire, built numerous lakes by damming small streams. From 937 lakes in 1937 to under 200 lakes now. Bengaluru’s rapid urbanization and infrastructural development has taken a toll on the city’s lakes. Bengaluru’s lakes are under threat from encroachment, pollution from sewage flows and a host of other problems. Cities are now turning back to their waterbodies and are redeveloping its edges. After long years of negligence we have now realised that they are valuable economic and community assets. The waterfront Development Projects around the world are trying to refocus city’s attention towards their waterbodies.For this there is need to come up wth a structure which would help in the development of future waterfront projects.