As you walk past the old walled city of Amritsar, a crumbling heritage stares you in the face. The meandering streets that once housed traditional structures built on intimate scales are now homes to all forms of encroachments leaving little or no space for pedestrians. The rhythmic arches on the facades of buildings in the city heart are ageing fast. Almost every old construction is in bad company of a new one. Visual incoherence in the walled city is thus almost total.