Revised Draft Five-Year Plan 1980-85 and Annual Plan, 1981-82

Abstract

Le Corbusier’s vision of Chandigarh envisaged its development as a predominantly administrative city, offering all amenities of life to the various sections of its population. This was based on a very imaginative area planning keeping in view the climatic conditions, habits of the people and the human and material resources. the concept of sectoral living, the classification of roads, the zoning plan and the architectural controls were clearly defined to shape the larger concept of a city as a living, throbbing, viable organic body. The Master Plan was as much an effort at co-ordinated development as an attempt to take account of the imperative factors of ecology, so that living and working could be carried on in the most congenial environments. 2. According to this concept, Chandigarh was to perform the following main functions :— Living—which occupies first place and required environment for the family under the rule of ‘24 Solar Hours’.