The death of the Indian city is scripted by the lack of imagination, will and intent in the constitution of its public spaces which are being reconstituted to comprise roads to move private vehicles, fragmented and broken sidewalks and a few scattered parks. In particular, the public spaces associated with the harvesting and collecting of water have succumbed to widespread neglect and decay. Despite academic discourses extolling the value of this architecture for water and related spaces for people, design actualization is negligible. Large scale, homogenous, mono functional infrastructure characterizes the thinking of the spaces for water, with people retreating into the banality and orchestrated publicness of gated communities. Consequently, even less resources are expended on the design of public spaces associated with water, further forging a cyclical process of neglect.
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