"Civilizations originate from green forests flourishing along rivers and collapse with the loss of such forests."

Along with the beautiful river, Bamiyan developed as a cross road of multiple cultures of east and west. Moreover, Bamiyan, Afghanistan is one of the few places in the world where untouched nature and people’s life style to cohabitate with nature are still preserved. Human beings in the present contemporary society has scarce opportunities to observe and experience beautiful nature. Human nature has not changed and remained the same. Nature is a cradle which provides time and space for human beings to re- stimulate our instincts and to recognize the way human living should be, that is, to live with nature. As our life style changed with modern technology, our lives are geared toward more and more convenience and comfort and lost contacts with organic beings. As a result, we are surrounded by the environment filled with concrete, asphalt, glass, and plastic and other artificial materials.

The basic theme of the urban planning for Bamiyan I suggest is to preserve as much nature and traditional living environment as possible throughout the development of the city and further to make the Bamiyan Vallery into a kind of forest by planting more trees of all kinds. Instead of building many roads, we limit the number of roads to the existing ones and build private residences in the woods so that they are kind of hidden under the branches of trees. The houses will be made of mud brick with a modern necessities inside. There should be no modern style architecture which are abundant in other cities of the world. In principle, tourist accommodation can be provided by increasing the number of ingenious mud brick houses which will be fashionably decorated. We can also develop or expand an existing market where both residents and tourists can buy necessities and souvenirs.
We suggest to take advantage of existing rich water resource which brings fresh water throughout the village. Potato farms are to be cultivated along the river. These farms will serve as a basis for agricultural tourism through which tourists experience a life of farmer as well as learn about agriculture and nature. The whole Bamiyan valleys will look like a huge oasis with thick forest with hiking trails. The chief colors of the village will be brown of the mud and green of the trees. Every architecture in the Valley will be build with ingenious mud, wood, and stones while avoiding the use of concrete, steal and glass.

In the 21st century, we seek human contact which we have less and less opportunities to have. People who visit Bamiyan from urban cities will crave for fresh unpolluted air, fresh green forest, and untouched nature of the Bamiyan mountains. The most Intellectual people who are also opinion leaders of the world are looking for a direct contact with ingenious people who know how to live with nature and history. We can provide opportunity for such tourists to enjoy nature and build friendship with people of Bamiyan. The purpose of their trip will be to develop friendship with them and to experience hospitality which people in Bamiyan can offer. The mind-to-mind relationship developed through home-stay programs and agricultural experiences attracts tourists, especially from urban cities. This will be a completely different style accommodations which serves a platform for human communications and exchanges.

In this plan, the whole village of Bamiyan will become a sort of a laboratory equipped with research center for geology, archeology, bio agriculture, and biology.