PEOPLE AND THE CITY

Cities are always in the process of change, this change is enacting as rapidly historic transformation of human social roots. This kind of transformation, evolution reflects by people either engaged intellectually can be marked distinguishing character of city or can be replace and destroy its parts and actual character. From City to Urban identity is a crucial matrix of cultural, social or political environment evolved interactively over a period of time. The intervention of city at the cost of over-shadowing the local culture and built form might come up as disastrous manner. This paper concentrates on changing equation between divided cities and discusses how cities changed and react with respect to social impact and spatial planning. The dilemma of historical footprint to contemporary planning specifically in the case of historic cities of Amritsar and Lahore, and proposes certain policies for regenerate, re-establishing rich cultural identity amalgamate with path of post modernism.