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| Model Street Restoration Project A stretch of Rue Calve Subbraya Chetty (Vysial Street), between Rue de la Cathedrale (Rue des Missions) and Mahatma Gandhi Street in the Tamil Town, is one of the rare streetscapes where the traditional continuous verandahs (thalavaram and thinnai) have survived. For that reason it was chosen for the Model Street Restoration Project. In close cooperation with the owners, twenty traditional house facades were restored and another four new buildings in-between were re-designed to harmonise with the traditional streetscape. The objective was to showcase a typical Tamil streetscape and to persuade the house owners to appreciate their heritage houses. The total cost was about 50 000 Euros. |
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| 42 Vysial Street |
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| 52 Vysial Street |
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| 71 Vysial Street |
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77 Vysial Street |
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| 77, 77a and 79 Vysial Street |
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81 Vysial Street |
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| Streetface Vysial Street |
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| Matching Grant Scheme With the objective of improving the survival rate of listed heritage buildings, this scheme provided financial assistance to ten owners (grants of up to 50% of the cost, with a ceiling of Euros 5 000 /-) to restore and modernize their properties. |
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| Building Plaques & Street Signboard |
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| Building Plaques and Street Signboards To highlight the heritage aspects of the city for both Pondicherians and tourists, 15 stainless steel plaques (each with a brief history of the site) were fixed on important heritage buildings. Old Pondicherry, like many cities in France, had blue-white enamel street signboards. Over the years most had been replaced with either plastic or concrete. About 300 new enamel signboards have been fixed, mostly along heritage walk-routes. |
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| Battery Charging Station This station, with modern charging equipment, was built to encourage the use of electric 8-seater micro-cabs in the city with the goal of reducing traffic pollution. A set of depleted batteries can be exchanged against freshly charged ones in ten minutes. |
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| Heritage Awareness Programme |
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| Heritage Awareness Programmes One of the essential ingredients of the heritage preservation efforts is the generation of awareness. We conduct programs in schools and colleges with the goal that children and youth will absorb the message and its values and convey it at home. Heritage walks are also proposed for local citizens as well as tourists so that some parts of the town which are normally not seen but have heritage character, can be discovered. Other instruments are developed to reach the general public like publication of brochures and videos on heritage protection and solid waste management. |
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| Heritage Walk |
Heritage workshop |
Asia Urbs brochure |
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