Talk:Rural-scape on the Fringe of City

Dear Archana,

This area makes me really curious. Your drawing with the uses of men, women and children is very good, I hope you can develop this method further also for other places in this village. It shows a lot - in a planning sense - but is also well understandable for lay people.

The use map rises some questions to me: what is 'undefined' space - are they not used? Temporarily? Cows eating? Children playing? What happens in the 'common' place - is it agricultural land used by everybody? In German this would be called 'Allmende'. How is the boundary between the religious site and its surroundings defined - is it more an invisible boundary (in people's minds) or is it spatial?

Are the woodlands used by people as you say this is a reserve?

Well, this is rather a set of questions than a comment -

Best wishes, Ellen

Archana: It is good that you liked the drawing.I think I would like to use this in behavior mapping.

        Regarding your questions I would like to answer them one by one but some how its interconnected -
        1) The areas which I mentioned in map as undefined is the current use of land. These are the land pieces belong to villagers. Initially its function was agriculture land, may be on papers its still a agricultural land. But as this village is on the fringe of city, and young generation is moving to city for job, these are the areas which are just lying ideally there with no function at all. There is no defined cattle in villages so no grazing as such. Children are not allowed to play there as it is a private property....so no current function just a  piece of land with undefined function.
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