• Pooja Jaiswal
• Bhagyajit Raval

Rivers have been an important part of city formation as they affected the morphology and land dynamics of the city. Considering the rapid urbanization, cities have started growing tremendously and reclaimed the edges of the ecological features with the unplanned or planned infrastructure in any cases. The city governments have been looking to this problem in many parts as the riverfront development being one. The riverfront being treated as the edge beautification has become the recent trend in the urban design realm. The understanding of the riverfront as an edge has led to many solutions that do not relate to what city they are and to the context they serve. The city is a complex phenomenon and to relate the riverfront to a larger development network to make sense out of the project and benefit the city for its development has been practiced in large successful waterfronts. Can there be an Ecological balance between a river and its context? Can the larger visions collaborate with the planning and design to help us to create a workable river management strategy? This research area shall focus on stitching the gap between different models to do a Place making exercise on the water edge for the city to generate public place. To formulate a comprehensive framework that incorporates Ecology and Urban forces to develop the interface between riverfront and adjacent built form. It aims to integrate the approaches for a systemic approach for the sensitive riverfront design incorporating suggestions at various levels of Development Plan, Local Area Plan or Area Based Development Plan and the Waterfront Initiative.

Beautification, Blue Infrastructure, Development Plan, Ecology Place making Urban River.

"Inclusive Framework incorporating Ecological aspects for the Urban Riverfront and its interface with the urban fabric-case of Vishwamitri, Vadodara", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.1-10, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFL06001.pdf

"Inclusive Framework incorporating Ecological aspects for the Urban Riverfront and its interface with the urban fabric-case of Vishwamitri, Vadodara", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp1-10, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFL06001.pdf