Inaugural talk by Dr. Deepika Shetty on Lesson of Sustainability from Heritage of Udupi at Putige matt, Udupi temple square, Udupi at Place making week India.

Place making week is a annual event of PlacemakingIndia, a collective of architects, urban planners, urban designers, heritage conservationists, human geographers, biologists, social workers, academics and bloggers and local and regional government administrations and  are committed to enhancing the public realm through small-scale planning that encourages sustainable and democratic use of communal spaces. 

Connecting people to spaces to make them places: be they streets, markets, water bodies, shrines, public markets or festivals, wherever people go to make social connections, is the focus of our attention.