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URBAN STUDY- MG ROAD

 INTRODUCTION
• Mahatma Gandhi road, popularly known as M G Road is one of the busiest
roads in the city. The road got its name as M G Road on 26th February 1948.
• During the independence period this place was referred as South Parade by
the rulers.
• It is considered to be the shopping extension of the city stretching from Trinity
Circle at on end to Anil Kumble Circle at the other.

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 TIMELINE
British encouraged the
wealthy Mud liars from The BDA Act of 197
Madras to settle reconstituted and
around Cantonment, reorganized the City
provide services in Improvement Trust
business. They were Board to form the
Cornwallis’s army
also need of butchers Bangalore
marched on this
to supply meat to the Development
patch of Bangalore
British regiment and Authority(BDA), whose
for the attack. Tipu
therefore Muslims also objective was to
was defeated and
migrated in large ensure roper planning
the British barracked
numbers and settled and development of
Bangalore
in the nearby Shivaji the metropolitan area
Cantonment
Nagar

Trinity church was The plague Bangalore’s cantontment

built to cater the epidemic in area went through a
needs of British 1898, there was complete transformation
Regiment stationed considerable in second half of the 19th
in Bangalore. improvement in Century; a population of
The church was the sanitation and nearly 1 lakh lived in
largest military or health facilities typical colonial
garrison church in developed bungalows. Surrounding
southern India and dramatically. their settlements also
could Telephone lines flourished public offices,
accommodate 700 were laid all church, parks, shops and
people at a time around schools.
 MORPHOLOGY
18th Century

Residential
Grounds & Park
Water body

A mud fort was built, town was divided into petes(market)

 MORPHOLOGY
19th Century

Residential
Grounds & Park
Water body
Military
Public

British troops were shifted to the newly established military cantonment

 MORPHOLOGY
20th Century

Residential
Grounds & Park
Water body
Military
Public

When the British encouraged Madras Mudliars to settle around for business
 EVOLUTION
M G ROAD

Today it is the primary Road of Bangalore connecting NH4 on one side and the state legislature
complex and the city old city on the other side.

Has retained much of its colonial morphology but has changed in use and function

MG road and its surrounding remains the shopping and the entertainment hub
of Bangalore

It is the most prestigious office address to have through many corporate are moving to their own
buildings and campuses in the suburbs & technology parks coming up on the outskirts of the
Bangalore.

With the development of IT related businesses in the city, the need for metro also proposed and
implemented. The main objective behind the metro was to ease the traffic off the roads.
BASE MAP
ROAD HIERARCHY
LANDUSE MAP

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 LANDMARKS

METRO STATION(MG ROAD, TRINITY) CHINNASWAMY STADIUM MAHATMA GANDHI PARK

CUBBON PARK St. PATRICK CHURCH MAHATMA GANDHI STATUE

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 LANDMARKS

HIGH COURT St. MARK’S CATHEDRAL HOLY TRINITY

CHURCH

GOVERNMENT AQUARIUM VISVESVARAYA INDUSTRIAL AND LALBAGH BOTANICAL

TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM GARDEN
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