Ahmedabad Quotes
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Ahmedabad has been declared a mega city, and the city is also covered under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM)
— Darshini Mahadevia, in Inside the Transforming Urban Asia: Processes, Policies, and Public Actions, Concept Publishing Company, 2008, p.361
Ahmedabad is the seventh largest city of India . Over time the city has grown from a city of trade and commerce to an important industrial centre. Its citizens have made remarkable achievements in other spheres as well.
— Dwijendra Tripathi, in Alliance for Change: A Slum Upgrading Experiment in Ahmedabad, 1 January 1998, p.vii
Socially, economically and in its structural and spatial design, the city had gradually been divided into three parts. From the end of 1960s, Ahmedabad became the story of three cities.
— B.K. Roy Burman, in Social profile, in Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat, p.32
Ahmedabad reputed as the 'Manchester' of western India, is a busy industrial city situated in a cotton-growing hinterland north of the Gulf of Cambay...
— Ahmedabad, in Ahmadabad, Archaeological Survey of India, 1980, p.1
Ahmedabad was named as one of the three Indian cities best positioned to prosper and grow in this new age of urbanization .
— Forbes, in Why Ahmedabad, Shantigram
The Sabarmati Riverfront Development project brings together global wisdom and best practices to revive the river as a public sanctuary for the people of Ahmedabad...The Riverfront upgrades 18 precincts located adjacent to the riverfront land, revitalising the heart of Ahmedabad and leading the city's future growth.
— Sabarmati Riverfront, in A Unique Identity, Sabarmati Riverfront Development Corporation Limited.
Until the beginning of the twentieth century most of Ahmedabad’s population resided within the Fort Walls [on the eastern bank of the Sabaramati River. The opening of the first Ahmedabad textile mill in 1861 and of the railway line between Ahmedabad and Bombay [now Mumbai] three years was a harbinger of the city’s rapid expansion. The developing textile industry generated waves of migration into the city and extensive growth of its population and territory.
— Ornit Shani, in Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat, Cambridge University Press, 12 July 2007, p.25
