When the city earned the Unesco World Heritage Site status in July 2017, the mammoth challenge for the civic administration was to conserve the built heritage and devise means to motivate the owners of these properties to play their part. 

While the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s transferable development rights (TDR) for heritage property owners is yet to record the first utilization, the heritage cell has started mapping heritage properties. 

In the first leg, seven institutions including universities and architecture firms — Anant National University, Nirma University, Abha Narayan Lambah & Associates, Credo Architecture, Earth Foundation and Malini Rajalakshmi — have completed the architectural plan of 18 residences in areas such as Shahpur, Kalpur, Dariapur, and Khadia. An exhibition of these plans was organized at the heritage cell recently for the stakeholders. 

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