A local train journey reveals different
city altogether. It is quite surprising to witness the tidal wave of
development surfacing in the horizon while blocks of building remain
dilapidated in most of the cases. The stretch between Andheri to Goregaon, from
Kandivali till Bhayander, once can clearly imagined the the diverse as well as conflicting
social and cultural corollary. The new economic restructuring has resulted in contradictory
condition of margin peripherals and dominant centers.
The city appears clearly
as landscape of margins and dominance across the horizon. The rail journey portrays
the valuable account of unaccounted part of our city. The profit and investment
aspiration is an archetypal urban culture arising from imagined globalizing
process. Such part of marginal city is depriving from
such imagined global processes and left over visual characteristic of blocks delineates
the contrived notation of being abandoned.
Along the tracks is also the
wealth of railway architecture, with immense architectural characteristics, subscribing
the wonderful weathering of time. The foot over bridges, railway signal cabins,
guard office block, load bearing bridges, railway stations are some of the artifacts
of railways, demonstrating the rare freshness of engineering domain of
architecture.
The landscape of city through railway offers the complete new dimensions
of overlaps of ideas intertwines of knowledge, intersection of aspirational
path, amounting to be a complete city of buildings, tainted with destined texture
and engraved in imagination of being abandoned.
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