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ees-229	Sen, Amrita; Unnikrishnan, Hita; Nagendra, Harini	Imperilled Waterscapes: The Social-Ecological Transformation of Lakes in Bengaluru	2020	10	.pdf	application/pdf	3887	221	52	In this paper, we use the case of the city‘s largest lake, Bellandur, to demonstrate the transformation of the waterscape from an open semi-arid landscape pre-dating the city into an agrarian water-dependent landscape characterized by flows of water in pre-colonial and colonial Bengaluru, and finally into a concretized landscape and the individualization of lakes in the ―modern‖ city. Once considered tanks, they transformed in the public imagination into lakes: ecological and recreational spaces, rather than being water reservoirs for irrigation.	cache/ees-229.pdf	txt/ees-229.txt