Thursday, April 21, 2022 – A VISIONARY PLAN FOR A NEW INDIAN CITY
FROM THE ARCHIVES
THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2022
THE 655th EDITION
CHANDIGARH, A PLANNED CITY
AND THE CHIEF ARCHITECT, CHANDGARH ADMINISTRATION 2008-2014
SUMIT KAUR
Sumit Kaur, Chief Architect of Chandigarh will join us on Thursday, April 28th to tell the story of the development of a model city in the 1960’s. DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, PUNJAB GOVERNMENT Retired as Chief Architect, Department of Architecture, Punjab October 2014 For a period of 33 years from November 1981 to October 2014, served at various posts progressing from Assistant Architect, Architect, Senior Architect, Additional Chief Architect to Chief Architect Punjab Government. TOWN PLANNING PROJECT
Chandigarh is one of the early planned cities in post-independence India and is internationally known for its architecture and urban design. The master plan of the city was prepared by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, which transformed from earlier plans created by the Polish architect Maciej Nowicki and the American planner Albert Mayer. Most of the government buildings and housing in the city were designed by the Chandigarh Capital Project Team headed by Le Corbusier, Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry.
In 2015, an article published by BBC named Chandigarh as one of the few master-planned cities in the world to have succeeded in terms of combining monumental architecture, cultural growth, and modernization.
As part of the partition of India in 1947, the former British province of Punjab was divided into two, mostly Sikh and Hindu East Punjab in India and mostly Muslim West Punjab in Pakistan.[25] The capital of undivided Punjab, Lahore, had become part of Pakistan after the partition.
Instead of shifting the capital to an already existing and established city, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, envisioned an altogether new and modern city be built to serve as the capital of Punjab.
In 1949 the American planner and architect Albert Mayer was commissioned to design a new city to be called “Chandigarh”. The government carved out Chandigarh from about fifty Puadhi-speaking villages in the then-state of East Punjab, India. Shimla was the temporary capital of the state until Chandigarh was completed.
MAP OF THE DISTRICTS IN THE CITY
https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/04/28/rihs-lecture-chandigarh-city-beautiful
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON PROGRAM & REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR ZOOM
THE QUEENS BUS REDESIGN
ELIMINATES THE Q102 BUS
Have you heard of this? Probably not. The Q102 is proposed to be replaced by the Q104.
The Queens bus redesign eliminates the 102 and sends islanders north on Vernon Blvd and then east on Broadway to Sunnyside on the new Q104.
This eliminates the convenient trip to Queens Plaza and lots of connections to other buses and subways.
Last night the MTA had a public forum on the project. There has been no publicity aside from incomprehensible signs on buses and a confusing website.
In an area of hundreds of thousands residents, less than 75 persons were on the zoom event.
No easy answers were available since reading Queens maps is impossible.
Better get on your computer and check out the above website and send in your comments.
Since this is a draft proposal. send on your comments, before the route is finalized.
https://new.mta.info/project/queens-bus-network-redesign/routes/q104-local
Send your comments to:
https://mta-nyc.custhelp.com/app/comments_queensbus
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THE GIRL PUZZLE
BY SCULPTOR AMANDA MATTHEWS
ED LITCHER GOT IT
Text by Judith Berdy
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Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
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Sources
SUMIT KAUR
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