KTOWN 43
This magazine is an assimilation of my experiences growing up in Kammanahalli and interacting with the surroundings as part of the Gentrification wave of change from being a suburban community to now being a fully fledged and planned out urban area. Kammanahalli is present in the northeast region of the evergreen city , Bengaluru. Kammanahalli has grown in many ways possible, through retail Schooling and the influx of various ethnic communities making it their daily character of interaction. Kammanahalli is the new centre of North Bangalore. This place has become iconic with the young and inspiring crowd that interacts and represents it in social and professional situations all around Bengaluru. As the gentrification process ramped up, there was a loss of the old and the surge of the new. This rapid change of pace to the area brought in a lot of new faces making the familiar markers of interactions disappear and emerge elsewhere. This wave of newcomers started to view Kammanahalli, the character, in a new perspective. In this magazine I explored the reasons why.
Here are the main reason:
1. Gentrification
2. Influx of various Ethnic communities
3. Upgrade in infrastructure
4. Real estate
From 2001-2004 The area had nothing more than a few essential stores and essential services that catered to the people that were present there. Now in 2021 Kammanahalli has people from various classes, religious and ethnic backgrounds, each having their own reason to be present there. With such varied perspectives and communication and interacting with the area and its services people still seem to be dormant and interact with people they are familiar with ( religiously or ethnically).There is no holistic sense of community when it comes to this bustling area which is almost the size of a Tier 1 town ( from google)
