In New Delhi, the ‘lungs of the city’ pop up tent is focused on Delhi Ridge, part of the Aravalli Hill Range and a rocky territory that was seen as a wasteland in the 19th century. It underwent an afforestation programme in the early 1900s as British officials strove to create a green space that Viceroy Hardinge imagined as a ‘miniature Versailles.’ After extensive urban encroachment, the site was saved through a popular people’s struggle in the later decades of the twentieth century. The green belt in Delhi Ridge is popularly perceived as a temperature regulator, a sound barrier and referred as a urban lung in a polluted urban environment. It is also believed that Delhi Ridge has an important role in regulating the ground water levels in the city.