ORIGINAL FULL TEXT The article investigates the failure of the Imperial City planning which leads to an unsolvable housing issue to New Delhi. It brings a drastic social disparity between the rich and the unprivileged people. It creates a phenomenon …
ORIGINAL FULL TEXT The article has depicted the result of the Imperial Delhi in 50 years of time after the Lutyens’ layout of the Imperial Delhi. The writer depicts the city planning result of the Imperial Delhi in an economic …
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ORIGINAL FULL TEXT The Town Planning Committee’s final report states the proposed construction process after the draft layout is made. It depicts how different purpose of buildings fit into the void the design draft. However, the residences of the local …
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The final layout of Delhi shows all constructed building blocks in the Imperial Delhi and building blocks are red in colour. It clearly shows that imbalance building density in between the centre of the Imperial Delhi and the suburb of …
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ORIGINAL FULL TEXT This document has recorded the consideration on the compensation to existing residents of the expropriation of their lands. The document clearly shows that there is not only cash compensation to residents, but also the land compensation to …
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Through many dramas of the plan evolution of the Imperial Delhi, each iteration could not show thoughtful consideration on the housing problem in the city planning. From the first four narratives, there are only two iterations are changed based …
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Although the plan is designed successfully to show the power and the greatness of the British imperial colony, the plan also neglects many urban elements apart from the grand system of the traffic, water networking and the sanitation of the …
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ORIGINAL FULL TEXT This is the historical document of mentioning the petition from residents of Paharganj of opposing to the expropriation of their home because, referring back to the iteration 1,2 and 3 documented in the Historical Document 1, the …
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The book is similar to the Irving’s Indian Summer which also narrates conflicts and dramas of the British side in this city planning. Moreover, the writer narrates the New Delhi plan in a more architectural perspective that the content is …
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During the city planning stage, the problem of acquisition of the old existing village, Paharganj, was not only suggested and argued by the Viceroy and some experts of the British side, but also the problem was appealed by the existing …
The book has rearranged historical documents of telegrams, reports and letters of the British Government of the city planning progress of the New Delhi. It records some important documents of key events, protagonists and conditions leading to the formation of …
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The book has documented detailed historical events to illustrate the whole development of New Delhi. From the debate and discussion on the capital transfer within the British government to the evolution of the master plan by different persons, the book …
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Although the Viceroy appreciated the improvement done by Lanchester and Lanchester also made another revised proposal for the master plan which enhanced the residential and the commercial zone of the old town with more curved open spaces, Hardinge alarmed a …
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The New Delhi Plan has gone through many changes in the planning stage. It has been modified by different persons and they have different views on the design of the New Delhi Plan. From the design, it shows what important …
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Again this book helped me understand the different viewpoints and opinions towards the building of this new city. It offers different peoples ideas and opinions into the building and illustrates how the city was formed under this debate of different …
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This journal illustrates how New Delhi was influenced by the Lutyens’ planning and the effects of his planning. This has evaluated different points of views towards the positives and negative influences he brought. Jain, Ashok Kumar. “The Significance of …
Throughout the planning, different opinions are present towards Lutyens’ plans. We could see that from his original sketches and framework, his intention was also to connect the significant points of India, and use it as a node, as can be …
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Discussions and debate throughout Lutyens’ contributions to the city and his plannings significant and impact are evident. (See narrative for more information.) However, tracing back the old maps and development state of New Delhi, looking at the urban fabric and …
Throughout the implementation one of the most failed parts in creating the imperial city was the lack of attention it has paid to the social ills, it has intentions in creating a garden city within India. This is one of …
Throughout the process, the architecture style of the Viceroy House, a significant building and a centrepiece of the urban planning was discussed. Different concepts were raised, and to trace back to their thought of trail and ideas, there are certain …
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Throughout the previous narrative, it was to explore whether the Viceroys house played an important role in creating the city’s identity. To look at this, we have to look at how Lutyens has planned the city and his concepts, in …
Throughout the planning for the New Delhi’s urban planning, Sir Edwin Lutyens was commissioned to become the architect in chief for the planning. Although he was commissioned, there was different opinions towards the proposal and different voices present. Firstly, in …
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Lutyens’ aim was to create the ideal city, the garden city with extravagance of avenues and green belts, connecting different cultural buildings from the place. It not only imposes imperialistic ideas, creating the garden city of India, it is considered …
One of the readings from a journal is from Ewing, called “Town Planning in Delhi: A Critique.” published in the Economic and Political Weekly in 1969, it illustrates the impact of different plannings towards the current condition of the town. …
One of Lutyen’s failure in building the city of New Delhi was that – given the extravagant planning that Lutyens’ for New Delhi, with the planning on the extravagant avenues and radial roads. It has failed to address any urbanistic …
One of the sources is a book from Evensons, published in 1984, called Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker, and Imperial Delhi. This book illustrates the different architecture styles presented in the city and especially the viceroys house, and especially how Lutyens …
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The architect of the Viceroy house is Edwin Lutyens, it is the current residence for the president of India. It includes reception halls, guest rooms, offices and resident areas. It also has open spaces and green spaces, and living quarters …
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This book illustrated the aims and the intentions of Lutyens’ Imperial New Delhi. It focuses on how the planning and the positioning and geometries of the planning were conducted. This article also allows us to understand the positioning of the …
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The positioning of the viceroy’s city is an emphasis on New Delhi’s identity, that it is an imperial city, with a blend of cultures of the British and the Indian. The Viceroys house is placed at one of the central …
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Among the reports and documents, a lot of maps and sketches were significant throughout the designing process, a lot of amendments were made again and again to perfect the future capital at that time. The morphology can be documented as …