By Ravi Kalia
ISBN-10: 0195623118
ISBN-13: 9780195623116
Initiated in 1949, Chandigarh is the main seen instance of a deliberate urban in India. the following, Kalia offers a background of its making plans and improvement, concentrating on the foremost figures concerned. This up to date variation incorporates a new advent and a brand new epilogue which relate the goals of the Indian government's unique plans, and the imaginative and prescient and layout of Le Corbusier, to present-day Chandigarh. The booklet is still the best learn of the expansion and improvement of this interesting urban.
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The election of a new Labor federal government in 1972 at the end of the Long Boom saw the first serious attempts by the Commonwealth to develop explicit urban policies. ) in the major cities. From Federation until the end of the Long Boom, Australian governments used a range of powers and initiatives to ensure the creation of cities that embodied the ideals of the Australian Settlement. The goals were simple: the expansion of collective welfare through orderly and inclusive suburbanisation and the protection of the most vulnerable through a modest public housing sector.
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