Cochin 1984 to 2024: Looking through Google maps' history!

 

Cochin 1984 to 2024 1985 was when I took the train from Cochin to Trivandrum to join CET's Department of Architecture as first year student of B Arch program.  These images provoke a whole lot of emotions and a possible whole lot of debate of what is visible and what is not and their whys!  Cochin 1984: Age of Innocence?

Cochin 1994: Age of Opportunity

Idea of the Airport, birth of Real Estate players and land speculation

COCHIN 2004: Coming of Age

Vallarpaadam land reclamation, Airport, city expansion

COCHIN 2014: Full throttle!

Look out for how the triangle of Ernakulam, Moovattupuzha (through Perumbavoor) and Angamally is getting reinforced.

COCHIN 2024: Feeling used, exploited; and exhausted!

Post 2018 floods and 2020 Pandemic, yet lacking vision about economic growth direction. Getting more poly-nucleated at the regional level, faster transport linkages internally. The hard crust gets more legible over the softer under-belly. The small island from the dredged deposits has now grown into a large mass (probably just submerged below surface). A future bone of contention.