Title & Author:

Le Corbusier : Chandigarh and the modern city : insights into the iconic city sixty years later / edited by Hasan-Uddin Khan ; with Julian Beinart and Charles Correa.

Publication:

[Ahmedabad] : Mapin Pub. ; Ocean Township, NJ : Grantha Corp. ; Easthampton, MA : Distributed in North America by Antique Collectors' Club, 2009.

Description:

248 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index.
Revisiting Chandigarh. Chandigarh as an urban model : appraisal and prognosis / Kenneth Frampton -- People and ideas that made the city. Nowicki and Chandigarh / Tadeusz Barucki ; Le Corbusier : a personal reading / Balkrishna V. Doshi ; The early days / Aditya Prakash interviewed by Vikramaditya Prakash ; Imperial Chandigarh / Romi Khosla -- Life in the city today. Administering Chandigarh : looking back / Jagdish Sagar ; Landscape and open spaces / Stephen White ; Socio-economic change and the poor / Madhu Sarin ; Housing in the city / Sandhya Sood -- The impact on India. What we learned / Charles Correa ; Le Corbusier and Indian architects / Raj Rewal ; Chandigarh and urban India / Ravi Kalia -- Critiques and speculations. Re-urbanizing the city / Rodrigo Pérez de Arce ; The dynamic city / Marius Reynolds ; After the diagram / Julian Beinart ; Building on Chandigarh / Rajeev Kathpalia ; The next growth / Charles Jencks -- Postscript. A Chandigarh refresher / Ayesha Khan.

Summary:

The book revisits the Chandigarh and examines its built and social form in terms of today's perspectives, reviewing the changes in the city and to the lives of its inhabitants and its architecture. The idea is to have an internationally known group of scholars, practitioners and critics look at the city through different lenses; to creatively speculate about the city and the way that its original conception has stood up to the pressures of becoming a contemporary Indian city. The notion of reviewing a city's performance, especially a city of such widespread importance, after two generations of existence is not common, and can offer lessons for other cities.

ISBN:

094414277X (Grantha)
9780944142776 (Grantha)
8189995111 (Mapin)
9788189995119 (Mapin)

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
City planning India Chandīgarh History 20th century.
Architecture India Chandīgarh History.
Architecture Inde Chandigarh Histoire.
Architecture
Buildings
City planning
Social conditions
Chandīgarh (India) Social conditions.
Chandīgarh (India) Buildings, structures, etc.
India Chandīgarh

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Khan, Hasan-Uddin.
Beinart, Julian.
Correa, Charles, 1930-2015.

Chandigarh and the modern city : insights into the iconic city sixty years later

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269123
Call No.: BIB 201149
Status: Available