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Titled &#039;Bourgeois Environmentalism and the Reclamation of Yamuna&#039;s Floodplain for a World Class City in the Making&#039;, the PhD project of University of Cologne researcher Alexander Follmann concludes that successive governments&#039; ambition to make the riverfront a &amp;quot;new frontier for urban development&amp;quot; notwithstanding, the reality is that it remains a &amp;quot;neglected backyard of the city&amp;quot;. 
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<em>NEW DELHI: </em>A German researcher's study of the dying Yamuna is an interesting take on Delhi's aspirations to be a 'world class city' vis-a-vis its utter failure in conserving the river. The study talks about Delhi's constant obsession with beautifying and developing Delhi's riverfront and how this has ironically meant nothing but further deterioration of the riparian ecology. 
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Titled 'Bourgeois Environmentalism and the Reclamation of Yamuna's Floodplain for a World Class City in the Making', the PhD project of University of Cologne researcher Alexander Follmann concludes that successive governments' ambition to make the riverfront a &quot;new frontier for urban development&quot; notwithstanding, the reality is that it remains a &quot;neglected backyard of the city&quot;. 
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DDA's second master plan in 1999, for instance, proposed channelization -pressing of the river into a designated bed of embankments with concrete walls a la London's Thames and Paris' Seine-to develop prime real estate on the banks. 
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Beautification drive killing Yamuna: Study -Jayashree Nandi

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