Master Planning of Zoos - Central Zoo Authority

Technical Session III
7. Many experts make their specific contributions at various stages of
preparation of zoo master plan.
8. The Landscape Architects contribution is widespread and stretches beyond
the completion of the zoo to transcend over to maintenance periods. (shaping
and pruning of vegetation, warranty period repairs, ensuring the validity of
assumptions made during design, Bronx Zoo example)
9. Landscape Architects work is different from those of other disciplines since
landscape planning and design deals with living entities.
10 Zoo Directors and Managers would fully appreciate the complexities
involved and the time it takes for creations to mature and prove their
design and creative worth.
11. The process of landscape planning and design is not comparable to the
work related to other infrastructural facilities such as electrical, plumbing,
sewage treatment etc.
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MY EXPERIENCE
• All concerned or related in any way have the same objective - a well designed
zoo.
• The process to achieve the same needs to be articulated to align it with the
present thinking on zoo design and left to be coordinated by a person(s)
professionally trained for the purpose under the combined coordination of
the professional and the Zoo Director
• A paradigm shift is required, in thinking, design and execution of Zoo’s in
India to step into the 21st century.
• This does not mean history and valuable experience is disregarded