Srinagar, Feb. 26 -- Kashmir Observer interviewed Professor Jan Haenraets, Professor of Practice in the Preservation and Studies Program at Boston University. He has done extensive work in Kashmir. Following are the excerpts from the interview.

Kashmir Observer: Tell us about the kind of technicalities that were discussed in the workshop regarding land pooling and land bylaws. Please talk us through it.

The panel brought together a number of speakers and a wider public audience for consultation and inputs. The speakers focused on proposals for changes to the bylaws. My perspective, as a conservation architect who focuses on the historic landscape, was that Srinagar is a very historic urban landscape, different from other cities in the s...