Aman Bhargava Bangalore India Data Visualization Designer & Developer aman@diagramchasing.fun

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Sep 2, 2025 • Bookmark

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Bengaluru's Public Spaces Repository

https://www.blrpublicspace-revival.in/repository

Over the last three years, as a part of the Sustainable Mobility Network, Sensing Local, along with other partners, developed the Urban Revamp Design Challenge (https://sensinglocal.wixsite.com/urbanrevamp), which invited design proposals from Architects to re-imagine under-utilised public spaces in Bengaluru, supported by active citizen groups in the neighbourhood. Two successive competitions resulted in 70 design proposals for 4 sites.

Great map of public spaces in Bangalore by Sensing Local. Categorized under labels such as food streets, places under metro lines and flyovers, walker streets and so on, I think it would be neat to have a Slow Routes type routing map that optimizes for pedestrian friendly features on OSM and takes you through some of these POIs. At a high-level I understand that this is an orienteering problem.

h/t Vonter for sharing.

#walking#bangalore#maps
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Aug 30, 2025 • Photo
Two large backlit maps of Bangalore Close-up of an 1880 map of Bangalore showing the original village boundaries and Yelahanka (spelt Yelavanka) up north. Sherlock Holmes' London

Short day out with Aditya. We visited the BLR Reads exhibition at the MOD Design Foundation office in Church Street, mostly with the intention of introducing him to this new space. To quote him looking out the 6th floor window onto the street corner, a view of this street that we rarely see, he said, “Man, this feels like a city.”

The space is interesting, they have a lot of old maps of the city which are worth seeing physically (there is, of course, https://blryesterday.com by my friend Vonter). The library is nice, it had books beyond those about Bangalore. I was pleasantly surprised to find ‘Sherlock Holmes’ London’ on one of the shelves. The membership is relatively inexpensive and I might consider it for a few months.

Capped the day with some Slay Coffee which reminds me of Yelli.

#bangalore#maps#sherlock holmes#church street
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