In the tangled forget that in the heart of India's capital overgrown brush, a quiet plan has been hatched to change the landscape of the world's most densely populated cities in the world.
Are creating a complex Mughal gardens. Rebuilding crumbling almost lost to history sandstone tomb. An artificial lake was divided. Sunder Nursery transformation is intended as a more ambitious project: to create a huge, iconic park, comparable to New York's Central Park as a refuge city chaos of the catalyst.
"It will be a place down the city, it will be an oasis," Ratish Nanda said the Aga Khan Trust for Culture Project Director, a large park, the driving force behind the dream.
The park will need to create a bunch of merge adjacent gardens, heritage management by different government agencies, an incredibly complex task, in this land of bureaucratic turf fiercely protected areas and the zoo. Although some officials began to discuss plans, no formal proposal has been formulated.
But sometimes in India, it needs tenacious dreamer, like Nanda, to achieve the seemingly impossible.
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On June 7 日 (Friday) 2013's photo, Indian laborers work of renovation Nella Gumbad, or blue tomb, ...
Nanda and the Aga Khan Trust took a seemingly impossible task. They captured 17 acres of compounds in the area, along with a large monument, from India's version of the Boy Scouts. They are currently fighting with the railway officials, allowing them to remove a storage room to block access to another monument.
"A single person to be there, trying to go, and to achieve this goal," said 阿肖克库拉纳, a strong supporter and New Delhi's Central Public Works Department, who recently retired head of many institutions First, the need to work together to create giant park.
The rewards will be great. New Delhi, about 17 million people, is a surprisingly green city, many neighborhoods and small parks dotted Lodi Gardens - clutch itself crumbling monuments - to attract upscale south Delhi's high-speed walkers and picnickers.
Large park will stand in them all.
It will be 480 hectares (1,200 acres), much higher than Central Park. It will have more than 300 species of 100,000, Nanda said. This will include the most impressive collection of medieval Islamic monuments, anchored grandiose emperor Humayun's Tomb, a 16th-century Taj Mahal is one of the prototypes. It will have an ancient fortress, Buddhist pagodas, exotic birds flocks of white tigers at the zoo.
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On June 5 日 (星期三), 2013 photo, Indian laborers working refurbished Sunder Nursery, 100 ac ...
Imagine rolling Nanda family on the grass carpet in the winter and in the summer in the shade of a tree to enjoy a book. He imagined people to visit the graves of the park or just crossing their daily commute.
And the dream is to restore Sunder nursery, covering 40 hectares (100 acres), Humayun's Tomb adjacent areas, both of which are being restored by the Aga Khan's trust. Founded by British colonists Nursery pilot plant. In recent years, it is barely functioning, become a dumping ground for construction waste, and hundreds of people a month visit.
Trust hit back at government plans to cut half of the nursery - to destroy a garden tomb - Major road projects make way for the Commonwealth Games in 2010, Nanda said. It had to remove the 1000 truck building rubble strewn fields.
From the gray building, eye-catching orange, its original design sandstone and white lime mortar and concrete repair and restore the 500-year-old Sunderwala sailing tomb. More than a dozen other monuments stand in kindergarten proved era, half a millennium ago, when the Islamic Mughal Emperor from Central Asia ruled a row upon row of the Indian subcontinent.
Burj Dubai Sunderwala representatives at the entrance Persian carpet design inspiration built under the square of grass and flower beds thin narrow pond water inflow channels and carved stone patterns, borders will be sent Mughal gardens.
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On June 5 日 (星期三), 2013 photo, a worker walked over Sunder nursery decoration of graves ...
Nearby, workers dug a fish swimming in the water reservoir is filled with a specially built sewage treatment plant. This water will flow through the flow with plants in different habitats from Delhi forest areas. There are open-air theater, bonsai museum and restaurant plans.
Peacocks strolling through the thick grass, 56 species of birds in the nursery one.
"That was a kingfisher," Nanda said excitedly as he gave a tour. He pointed to the Mughal era have been excavated lotus pond. To a young lemon tree growing in the first results. To the new rose garden and bright white and red building, newly restored Lakkarwala sailing monument.
"This is beautiful, this is how it is to look at the meaning of this railing, it is like a jewel," he said.
Nursery project, he said, was to put dead zone "into a thriving eco-hub."
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The idea here is that this is a magical space, the people from the monotony of everyday life, "he said."
However, this is only a small step, he hopes will create a momentum toward greater creeping Park.
He has been eyeing a shaky Azimnganj Sarai, early 16th century pilgrims motel outside the zoo nursery land. Mughal Gardens, in fact, the entire design of kindergarten, pointed directly at Sarai, he hopes to get permission to restore it, and add it to the park. This will bring him a large park with a small step closer to the dream.
That park, Nanda and his colleagues envisioned, will begin with the Humayun's Tomb and its complex gardens and monuments. The north is a kindergarten, then the National Zoo, and then pull Purana, the oldest in the city fortress. All this running alongside the narrow Millennium Park, bordering the river Yamuna. These areas are now cut off from Humayun Tomb Tour Millennium Park, only about 100 meters (yards) away, it will take 51/2 km (3 miles).
"These are things that have been initial contact, these artificial boundaries just stupid," Nanda said, pointing to the monuments around the walls of buildings.
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His concerns, however, government agencies struggle.
It takes hundreds of years to do here, "he said."
Archaeological Survey of India, Humayun's Tomb and run Purana pull. New Delhi, Central Public Works Department controls nursery. Ministry of Environment Control Zoo and Delhi Development Authority runs Millennium Park. Even if the railway land involved.
Agencies will focus their budget, pull down their walls, work together to provide parking and maintenance.
Muhammad Shaheer, a landscape designer who work in kindergarten, creating a unique space, residents in this city of immigrants can interact and create memories of a draw will be irresistible.
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In this Wednesday June 5, 2013 photo, CUL Aga Khan Trust project director Ratish Nanda ...
Pula Srivastava, Director-General of Archaeological Survey of India, said that the recent renovation of Humayun's Tomb, involving about 12 different agencies, proved that this cooperation is possible.
"Everyone has their own perception of priorities, and their mode of operation, those around several blocks and mentality, is the need to resolve things," he said. But he predicted that can be completed within five years of the new park.
"On it, it should," he said.
Khurana CPWD former head, is expected to be a tourist magnet park 20,000 to 30,000 passengers per day.
"Mentality is that everyone wants it," he said. "When hearts are willing, everything is normal."
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