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What is city planning?
What is city planning?
Ancient Indian city planning is the style and use of certain strategies for urban planning from ancient India. There were many facets to Indian urban planning including prioritizing comfort beauty, along with excellent water management, and city layouts.
-Mohenjo-Daro
Why was it needed?
Why was it needed?
City planning was crucial to ancient India. It allowed for faster and more efficient travel within the city, it made lives better with better access to water. The comfort given by the design of these cities was very important to the designers, that fact allowed for the citizens of the city to live easier lives than many at the time.
-Harappa
Comfort and Beauty
Comfort and Beauty
There were many strategies pertaining to comfort and beauty in ancient Indian city planning including public gardens, trees planted on the side of streets for air quality and visual appeal, and use of natural ventilation.
-Mohenjo-Daro Great bath
Water Management
Water Management
Ancient Indian city planning had excellent water management, they used wells to store water, drainage systems, along with public baths .
-Mohenjo-Daro
City Layouts
City Layouts
There are many layouts from ancient Indian urban design. The dandaka layout was shaped like a long pole. The sarvatobhadra layout is square and/or made of right angles. The nandyavarta is a flower pattern. There are many more to see and research.
-Mohenjo-Daro
Origin
Origin
These strategies of city planning were developed over time. The earliest known uses of them are the ancient cities Harappa, and Mohenjo-daro. These
archaeological sites show uses of right angles in the layout and uses of water management with wells and public baths.
-New York City
Impact
Impact
The impact of ancient Indian city planning is hard to trace, but the design principles used can teach a very important lesson to urban planners. You can even see it in New York City along with many other cities using city blocks, these segments of right angles are very similar to city planning of ancient India.
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