Beyond Le Corbusier and the modernist city: reframing Chandigarh's ‘World Heritage’ legacy

Chalana, Manish; Sprague, Tyler S.

doi:10.1080/02665433.2013.737709

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“…Site designation “garners international and national prestige, enables access to the World Heritage Fund for monetary assistance, and brings the potential benefits of heightened public awareness, tourism, and economic development” (Meskell ), and therefore the identification, nomination, and negotiations at the World Heritage Committee open up the process to a variety of influences. Keough () and Chalana and Sprague () both argue that the local and state interest in heritage preservation boils down to economics. World Heritage site designation translates into an influx of funds from the World Heritage Fund, national authorities, and domestic or international tourists.…”

Section: World Heritage As Meta‐politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Chalana and Sprague () offer compelling evidence of the success of viewing a modernist site as a lived space in the case of Le Corbusier's 1952 urban plan for Chandigarh, India. Importantly, Chandigarh was at one time singularly on the tentative World Heritage List, but local authorities have since withdrawn the singular nomination due to disagreements with the central government and the World Heritage Committee over standards and over the ways in which the area was to be rehabilitated.…”

Section: Shaping the Bildungsroman Of World Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The authors contend that Chandigarh's history is still being written beyond Le Corbusier, in that his plan has been adapted and modified to align with local spatial practices of everyday life. Their field research led them to conclude that one local group, Chandigarh Heritage Conservation Committee, embraced the architectural heritage beyond those buildings in the Le Corbusier plan for an appreciation of the “multiplicity of authorships” of the city (Chalana and Sprague , p.217). This recognition of the sanctity of the space and of those living in and around it rather than for the imagined narratives constructed about it, serves as the cornerstone of moving beyond various forms of “museumification” and essentialised readings of the White City.…”

Section: Shaping the Bildungsroman Of World Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

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Producing World Heritage in the White City Tel Aviv

Flahive¹

2017

Int Social Sci J

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This paper engages with the political and spatial implications of UNESCO World Heritage Site designation. Specifically, the paper explores the relationship between notions of heritage, Modernist Movement World Heritage, and nationalist imaginaries. I argue that the World Heritage regime validates and enables state authorities to exercise new forms of hegemonic domination, namely the exploitation of historical narratives to graft specific forms of national identity onto World Heritage Sites with the concomitant erasure of alternative readings and historical layers of a site. This paper focuses on World Heritage Sites in the modernist aesthetic to show these processes in action. I first decouple notions of “heritage” from World Heritage for greater analytical purchase on the embedded politics of modernist World Heritage Site identification and preservation. I then rely on the case of the “White City” Tel Aviv to tease out the narrative construction, erasure of alternative histories and readings of the space, and most importantly, the exercise of new forms of spatial domination at this modernist World Heritage Site. The paper concludes with three recommendations for a more holistic, equitable, and representative World Heritage regime.

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Section: Shaping the Bildungsroman Of World Heritagementioning

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Section: Shaping the Bildungsroman Of World Heritagementioning

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Producing World Heritage in the White City Tel Aviv

Flahive¹

2017

Int Social Sci J

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“…I am putting forward Chandigarh as an example of a functional and orderly city. The idea of Chandigarh continues to be a subject of discussion among scholars as a commonly evoked symbol of a modern India in a globalising world (Nilsson, 1978; Gopal, 1984; Nangia, 2004; Perera, 2004; Kalia, 2006; Banerjee, 2009; Shaw, 2009; Bharne, 2011; Chalana and Sprague, 2013). It not only provided a benchmark for Indian cities for many years but also created an ideology – an expression of India’s modern urban development.…”

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Why Indian cities are so chaotic? Decoding from the urban development efforts of Chandigarh

Biswas

2019

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to compare and learn from Chandigarh in addressing an orderly urbanisation in India. Chandigarh is considered as a benchmark for city design in India. The aim is recapitulate the city design process and garner useful inputs towards city design process in India.Design/methodology/approachConsidering the purpose of the study, two research methodologies are identified – namely “case study” and “analytical narrative”. A case study method is usually focused on certain urban systems with a view to explain why certain systems were a success and why some ended up being a failure. It mostly concerns itself with questions of efficiency. A narrative analysis seeks to understand urban development process and change. It appeared in disciplines such as policy analysis, urban history, social science, political science and economics. Analytical narrative evaluates the explanatory performance of new genre, using some philosophy.FindingsThis paper contributes in reinvigorating the aura of Chandigarh and its contribution in developing an Indian city with its own identity. It also reflects upon the series of failure among the recent city planning endeavours, and its avenue of differences from the successful case.Originality/valueThe paper contributes in understanding the existing shortcomings of city design approaches in India from the perspective of a relatively successful case of a functional Indian city. It also helps to point out the forgotten dimensions of city design that contributes in creating a functional city.

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“…Nevertheless, neither the affordable homes for the middle class designed by Frank Lloyd Wright called Broadacre City on the side of capitalistic utopia nor was the functionally classified structure of Cite Radieuese developed by Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) on the side of socialist utopia successful in terms of satisfying the needs and expectations of the individuals. The modern architecture and urban planning is associated by the modernism and post-colonial times of the countries where heavy governmental control and state monitored commerce as well as expression of nationalist and utopian ideals take place (Chalana & Sprague, 2013). The understanding of modernism therefore naturally reflected on the practices in tourism sector, which then lead to gradual accumulation of several fundamental social, environmental and individual contradictions (Xie & Sun, 2017).…”

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An Investigation of Modernist Utopias on Tourism and Postmodern Critique of Modernist Tourism Practices

Genç¹

2018

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In general, the aim of this manuscript is to investigate the impact of modernism in tourism practices in detail and provide a sound critique based on the change of mentality with the post-modernist Age. The paper will start with a body of literature on the modernist utopias specifically in the context of tourism, and then it will provide a post-modernist point of view in order to critically evaluate the modernist practices taking place in contemporary tourism sector. The methodology will be literature review and critical evaluation of the findings on the possible impacts of modernism on tourism sector and motivation of stakeholders, local governments and states in tourism activity. In conclusion, the study aims to find that modernist ideals have a significant impact on touristic activities, especially those which take uniform tastes of individuals for granted and fail to capture the fact that different people may have different tastes, and therefore, search for a different and privatized experience for themselves, which they can evaluate based on the closeness to their self-images. Furthermore, the paper will argue that current applications in tourism are also subject to change as well. Therefore policies targeted to develop the effectiveness of tourism must be adjustable for possible changes in the future; otherwise they will perish soon given the rapidly changing technological and global settings in the world.

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Beyond Le Corbusier and the modernist city: reframing Chandigarh's ‘World Heritage’ legacy

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

Producing World Heritage in the White City Tel Aviv

Producing World Heritage in the White City Tel Aviv

Why Indian cities are so chaotic? Decoding from the urban development efforts of Chandigarh

An Investigation of Modernist Utopias on Tourism and Postmodern Critique of Modernist Tourism Practices

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