Town planning

•Planning means pre thinking and pre arranging things before an event takes place so as to achieve overall growth of the mass.

• Town planning is considered as an art of shaping and guiding the physical growth of the town creating environments to meet social and cultural conveniences.

•Though the term applies to planning new towns, it also equally takes into account the improvement of existing towns and their extensions.

•Prevalent eras or the influence of a particular rule over a period of time makes major planning differences regarding styles and method of execution.

•The pre and post town planning methods depict the gradual change in power in India

PRE INDEPENDENCE [before 1947]

AND POST INDEPENDENCE [after 1947]

PRE - INDEPENDENCE

THE SEVEN ISLANDS

PLAN OF TOWN OF BOMBAY-(1715)

PLAN OF FORT AND ESPLANADE OF BOMBAY-(1827)

SHEIKH MEMON STREET-(BOMBAY)

FLORA FOUNTAIN-(1865)

BALLARD PIER OR BALLARD ESTATE-(*1930)

BACKBAY SCHEME SEEN FROM THE NORTH END- (1921)

AERIAL VIEW OF HORNIMAN CIRCLE.

NEW DELHI-(PRE INDEPENDENCE)

PLAN OF MEDIEVAL CITY OF JAIPUR-(PRE INDEPENDENCE)

POST -INDEPENDENCE

CHANDIGARH-TOWN CENTRE

GOVERNMENT HOUSE

LOCAL SHOPS

INDUSTRY

GREET BELT

LAKE

SALIENT FEATURES:

• SECTOR PLANNING:•TRANSPORT

•LANDSCAPE

•POPULATION

•CHANDIGARH IS INDEED AN EPITOME OF TOWN PLANNING.