Chandigarh

Chalana, Manish

doi:10.1177/1538513214543904

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“…Chandigarh was an attempt at decolonisation – city that would offer equality of opportunity and space for all social groups (Chalana, 2015; Fitting, 2002; Hall, 1988; Kalia, 1988, 1999; Mallot, 2012; Perera, 2004; Prakash, 2002; Singh et al, 2019; Wattas and Gandhi, 2017). Singh et al (2019) posit that in every speech Nehru proclaimed it to be a ‘city of hope’ (p.1233), ‘a project of collective recovery’ (Mallot, 2012, quoted in Singh et al, 2019: 1232) (from the partition of India) and a symbol of ‘progress and modernity’.…”

Section: Chandigarh: a Planned Utopian Imaginationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Queering utopia: Pride walks in modernist Chandigarh

2023

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In this paper, we queer the understanding of urban spaces to move forward a utopian project. ‘Let this be a new town unfettered by the traditions of the past, a step into the future’, proclaimed Nehru about Chandigarh. Designed by Le Corbusier and his team in the 1950s, Chandigarh was symbolically and materially meant to propel India into modernity. Although built with the ideals of socialism and secularism, Chandigarh is very much an elite city. This paper traces the Queer Pride parade initiated in the year 2013 to appreciate how non-normative groups challenge and subvert the planning of Chandigarh. Our attempt in this paper is to queer the utopian understanding of Chandigarh. We do this through a reading of pride walks as disruptive moments that assign new possibilities and meanings to public spaces. Technocratic solutions proposed as part of grand urban planning imaginations can never take us closer to utopia. Instead, we argue, it is through disruptions caused by events like pride parades that we slowly inch towards utopia. In making the above argument, this paper pushes the boundaries of both queer theory and urban utopian imaginations.

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Section: Chandigarh: a Planned Utopian Imaginationmentioning

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Queering utopia: Pride walks in modernist Chandigarh

2023

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“…In Chandigarh, Le Corbusier has brought modern city planning, urban space design to India [41]. During the partition in 1947, the Indian subcontinent got divided at the Indus valley and the Gangetic valley and that lead to the making of Chandigarh which was considered to be one of the balancing acts of many.…”

Section: Visual Analyses Of the Public Spaces Of Chandigarhmentioning

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Integration of art in urban design for balanced rejuvenation of public spaces. A case study of Chandigarh

Bhattacharya¹,

Sen²

2021

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“…In terms of the Indian context, we have a vast variety of towns in our country that are famous for their planning. Cities such as Chandigarh, Gandhinagar, Bhubaneshwar, and Naya Raipur are a few prime examples of our urban planning in modern times 3 . Not only that since ancient times, cities were tailored based on a set of rules.…”

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The relevance of Manasara planning model in walled cities of India: An assessment review of Rajasthan

2023

IJFMR

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Whenever town planning of old towns is discussed, various planning models of the traditional towns that were planned in the Vedic times are always referred. To make these planning models a success, careful consideration was given to all the aspects associated with a town such as its size, scale, allocation of spaces for various activities based on their role, road layouts, and widths, building heights, assigning of housing sectors based on caste residing within the town and how all of these justified the means to achieve the same. At the same time, various walled cities and fortified towns of Rajasthan have always been studied while understanding newer planning models. This research aims to find a connection between the planning concepts that were given in the Manasara and the walled cities of Rajasthan in terms of their planning. To correspond to the local on-site conditions for these walled cities and determining the similarities and differences with the Manasara town models shall be an objective of this study with the conclusion of how much original character has been retained in their planning.

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Chandigarh

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

Queering utopia: Pride walks in modernist Chandigarh

Queering utopia: Pride walks in modernist Chandigarh

Integration of art in urban design for balanced rejuvenation of public spaces. A case study of Chandigarh

The relevance of Manasara planning model in walled cities of India: An assessment review of Rajasthan

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