Conservation and the strategic intergration with the development activities of the urban space : a case study of Colombo

Abstract

City of Colombo as a post Colonial - living Port City, is at present facing the. Contradiction of the Conservation of the Historic Urban Fabric- which provides the opportunities ,Knowledge for the well being of the Humanity, yet, contradicts with the Trends and Impacts of the Current Development Inclinations, which the Market Behaves as a Protagonist, in the Context. The Resulting formation of the City. Which, make a prompt for the contradiction in between the Conservation and the above development trends on the context., thus in a need to be Integrated, to Sustain the Survival and make manipulate Each other. s: While Looking for a mode of Integration, a deep study is to be done ,with the transformation of the City of Colombo which caused the present face of Colombo .Thus, can be organized within several Periods of time Segments, in accordance with their similarity of the generators of Evolution. Discussing in the Chapter one- the Pre-Colonial Colombo, Colombo under The Portuguese, Colombo under the Dutch and British is done to an in depth study In the Second Chapter the need of conserving the evidences of the specific elements or the components of the periods will be Discussed. Chapter three intends to Examine the contribution of the Colonial Structures to the City Fabric , prior to understand a Summery for a Strategic integration in the Fourth chapter of the Economically pressurized Historic Landscape of the City of Colornbo. The Historic Urban Fabric encoring with a vision and a planned basis which has . given the City of Colombo its Original face -containing with the Appropriate Human Scale Structures, yet in a need to be Properly integrated to the Prevalent ·Socio- Economicalneeds of the Context. These, gadually has being replacing by Unplanned built achievements ,Pressurized by the higher economic-land value of the prevalent Colombo. The needs of the capitalism of the context should be balanced and well integrated with the social development of the place.