CSML does walking audit to promote safe streets
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Exercise conducted as part of Streets for People Design challenge
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Exercise conducted as part of Streets for People Design challenge
Cochin Smart Mission Limited (CSML) conducted a walking audit on 5th and 6th of January to promote pedestrian-friendly streets designs.
The exercise was done as part of the Streets for People Design challenge organised by the Smart Cities Mission and the Ministry of Urban Affairs, for which 71 participants registered.
The walking audit was conducted at Vasco square, Eruveli Kalvathi Canal Road, Jew Town, and P.T. Usha Road. Through the exercise, major issues facing the locations were assessed in coordination with CSML, designers, local public, and other stakeholders.
CSML invites designs for Streets for People challenge
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Initiative aims at promoting pedestrian-friendly and safe public places
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Initiative aims at promoting pedestrian-friendly and safe public places
Aimed at promoting pedestrian-friendly, child-friendly and safe and happy public spaces / streets in Kochi, Cochin Smart Mission Limited (CSML) has invited designs from the public for the Streets for People challenge.
It is an initiative of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and Smart Cities Mission to encourage people to create a flagship walking initiative in cities, focusing on placemaking, liveability, and pedestrian-friendly neighbourhoods.
The designs should have fair distribution of spaces, safety, and security for all users, comfort, sensitivity to local surroundings, liveability and environmental stability, pedestrian-friendly streets, activity area, shopping area, interaction spaces, and kids play area.
Kochi sits on the Arabian Sea. (Christabel Lobo/ via JTA)
A sign denotes Kochi s Jew street, as it is known locally, which once was a hub of Indian Jewish life. (Christabel Lobo/ via JTA)
A look inside the 452-year-old Paradesi Synagogue in Kochi. (Christabel Lobo/ via JTA)
KOCHI, India (JTA) Take a walk down this coastal city’s “Jew street” today and you’ll find bustling Kasmiri storefronts selling Persian antiques, pashmina shawls and traditional Islamic handicrafts a stark contrast to the neighborhood’s heyday when every household was Jewish.
“There are only two people left in Jew Town. One very old, who spends most of her time in Los Angeles, and one other,” said Shalva Weil, a senior researcher at the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a leading figure on the Jewish communities of India.
Take a walk down the street here in coastal Kochi’s “Jew street” today and you’ll find bustling Kasmiri storefronts selling Persian antiques, pashmina shawls and traditional Islamic handicrafts a stark contrast to the neighborhood’s heyday when every household was Jewish.
“There are only two people left in Jew Town,” said Shalva Weil, a senior researcher at the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a leading figure on the Jewish communities of India.
Once a vibrant community of approximately 3,000 at its peak in the 1950s, only a handful of elderly Jews remain here now in a city of some 677,000. According to Weil, there really is no community in Kochi anymore.
December 15, 2020 1:53 pm A sign denotes Kochi s Jew street, as it is known locally, which once was a hub of Indian Jewish life. (Christabel Lobo)
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KOCHI, India (JTA) Take a walk down this coastal city’s “Jew street” today and you’ll find bustling Kasmiri storefronts selling Persian antiques, pashmina shawls and traditional Islamic handicrafts a stark contrast to the neighborhood’s heyday when every household was Jewish.
“There are only two people left in Jew Town,” said Shalva Weil, a senior researcher at the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a leading figure on the Jewish communities of India.