The City Beautiful Chandigarh Analysis
Why, one wonders, Chandigarh -that distinguished itself to be 'the City Beautiful' because of the masterly urban planning & designing, is not becoming such, as a whole with the passage of time?
A clean canvass for the layout of Chandigarh was facilitated by uprooting many villages which became reality because of the psyche of the countrymen then for the larger interest of building a city of tomorrow.
The master architect and planner prepared the master plan of the proposed capital with network of orderly roads forming vistas in context to the commanding Shivalik range that becomes backdrop to the city, and also integrating the choe - running from North to South to collect storm water, and becoming a part of the landscape. Zoning of various …show more content…
Architectural controls' for various types of buildings at various locations as urban legislation became an order to lending harmony to the built-environment all over the city. With the changing times when the identity issue within the society was becoming pronounced; in the absence of the new order that meets the changing aspirations of the society, the 'Architectural controls' that was instrumental in bringing harmony to the built environment, appeared to be monotonous and were considered rigid which did not permit a building to bear the stamp of the identity of an …show more content…
yet generally we either follow blindly or flout. Thus many buildings violating controls started appearing adversely affecting street pictures in the cityscape. With the back up of the political system in the country, the city saw tilt towards regularisation of the violations, ultimately doing away with the concept of architectural controls in general. The architectural controls prescribed for the buildings coming up at some places such as along the Dakshin Marg , were revised to have volumetric controls; but in the absence of a regulatory body like Urban Art Commission, this revision also could not bring the desired results.
When the concern for the totality in planning and orderliness in the built-environment was found wanting on the part of the administrators & planners in particular and the society in general, ugliness started creeping within the
A clean canvass for the layout of Chandigarh was facilitated by uprooting many villages which became reality because of the psyche of the countrymen then for the larger interest of building a city of tomorrow.
The master architect and planner prepared the master plan of the proposed capital with network of orderly roads forming vistas in context to the commanding Shivalik range that becomes backdrop to the city, and also integrating the choe - running from North to South to collect storm water, and becoming a part of the landscape. Zoning of various …show more content…
Architectural controls' for various types of buildings at various locations as urban legislation became an order to lending harmony to the built-environment all over the city. With the changing times when the identity issue within the society was becoming pronounced; in the absence of the new order that meets the changing aspirations of the society, the 'Architectural controls' that was instrumental in bringing harmony to the built environment, appeared to be monotonous and were considered rigid which did not permit a building to bear the stamp of the identity of an …show more content…
yet generally we either follow blindly or flout. Thus many buildings violating controls started appearing adversely affecting street pictures in the cityscape. With the back up of the political system in the country, the city saw tilt towards regularisation of the violations, ultimately doing away with the concept of architectural controls in general. The architectural controls prescribed for the buildings coming up at some places such as along the Dakshin Marg , were revised to have volumetric controls; but in the absence of a regulatory body like Urban Art Commission, this revision also could not bring the desired results.
When the concern for the totality in planning and orderliness in the built-environment was found wanting on the part of the administrators & planners in particular and the society in general, ugliness started creeping within the