CONTENTS Introduction Aims and Objectives Framework Scope and Limitations Chapter 1 : The Phenomenon of Layering 1.1 : Introduction 15 1.2 : Layering in other Fields of Arts 17 1.3 : Layering and Growth 19 1.4 : Cities and Growth 21 1.4.1 : Incremental Changes 23 1.4.2 : Urban Infill 23 1.4.3 : Concept of De-layering 25 1.4.4 : Permanance and Persistance 27 1.5 : City the Temporal Collage: 29 Temporal Layering 1.6 : Layering and the Built Environment 31 1.7 : Spatial Layering 33 1.8 : Summing Up 35 Chapter 2 : Pune Old City: Dissecting the layers 2.1 : Introduction 39 2.2 : Origins of Pune : Layers of the past 41 2.3 : Layer of Notions 43 2.4 : Structure of the city 45 2.5 : The Wada Houseform 47 2.6 : The Fabric 49 2.7 : De-layering : Transformations and Modifications 51 2.8 : Layer of persistant elements 53 2.9 : Time line of Pune 54 Chapter 3 : Tulsibaug and the Street. 3.1: Introduction. 59 3.2: History of Tulsibaug. 61 3.3: Institutions of Tulsibaug. 63 3.3.1 : The Temple of Ram (Tulsibaug). 65 3.3.2: The Mandai 67 3.4: The street 69 3.4.1: The market as a layer 69 3.4.2: Mapping the layers 71 3.4.3: Two elements 71 3.5: Market and its temporal behaviour 75 3.6 : Processes (Active individual domains) 77 3.7: Processes ( Extending and Unfolding) 83 3.8: Processes (Extracting from the Visual) 83 3.9: Primary Layer 85 3.10: Layer of Active Space 87 3.11: Layer of Extention 89 3.12: Layer of Dynamic Elements 91 Conclusions 99 Bibliography 101 Acknowledgements 105