1. GEETIKA MATHAVAN - Practicing Architect, UT of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
2. ANOOP KUMAR SHARMA - Asst. Professor School of Architecture, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, UT of Jammu and Kashmir,
India.
3. ARSHIA KHAJOORIA HAZARIKA - Research Scholar, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India.
4. SOUROVEE DUTTA - Asst. Professor School of Architecture, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, UT of Jammu and Kashmir,
India.
5. MOHD. HUSSAIN - M. Arch. Student, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India.
Tourism is formative nation building activity. Encouragement and promotion to region specific development, related communities is imparted by tourism. Increased affordability and advancement in technology enable people to travel and promote tourism by visiting various such sites. The tourism is widely carried forward through religious sites globally by diverse belief and cultural practices. In this paper, authors consolidate on their previous research regarding identification of various factors influencing developments of Katra Town, India. It was researched that essentials like infrastructure, security and safety are questionable at many such religious tourism potential spaces. The urban growth potential, public realm and pattern at such places is greatly affected hence-forth. Pertinently need for striving towards suitable development aspects of religious tourism sites is a potential research area in religiously driven country like India. This study put-forth an architecture design proposal based on case studies and contextual study for Katra town, India. The comprehensive design proposal is arrived at by the previous findings by the authors for the Town, local cultural aspects of the place and site study. The research is novel one contextually and would facilitate the policy makers and others in inclusive development of Katra town. Role of planning, Architecture and urban form is realized to cater emerging and multi-faceted issues in such contexts.
Planning and Architecture, Cultural, Design proposal, Katra, Religious Tourism.