CUL – Chandigarh Urban Lab

Solutions to the Parking Problem: Residences

A previous post has described the increasing shortage of parking in Chandigarh. Although parking at the markets has seen the greatest amount of attention, parking in residential zones has also [...]

Solutions to the Parking Problem: Markets

Existing parking is chaotic. As observed in a previous post, the supply of parking spaces in Chandigarh is a growing concern among planners and residents. According to the Chandigarh Transport [...]

The Parking Problem

A necessary element of an auto-centric city is parking. Chandigarh’s master plan provides for parking nearly everywhere, from parks and schools to markets and houses. However, the daily influx of [...]

Connections: Rethinking Leisure Valley

Leisure Valley currently winds southwest from the Capitol Complex, through sectors 3, 10, 16, 23 and 36. What was intended as a continuous green belt through Chandigarh is now a segmented park, [...]

A Case for Aesthetic Legislation

Urban Character Aesthetic legislation must, at its core, differentiate between arbitrary issues of taste and researched ideals of aesthetics. Attributes of the city proven successful over [...]

Modern Indian Cinema – a Brief Overview

Inside the Neelam Theater, Sector 17, Chandigarh Cinema became increasingly popular in the early twentieth century throughout the world. Unlike theatre performances, cinema has [...]

The Controversy of the Governor’s Palace

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Le Corbusier’s Vitruvian Man

“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses [...]

Fetishization of the Modern

Chair by Pierre Jeanneret The furniture designed by Modernists, Le Corbusier among others, has become highly collectible and fetishized, despite the principles of modernism which champion mass [...]

Interdependence: The City-Periphery Balance

Although Chandigarh‘s commercial centers are full of planned shops and organized storefronts, the interstitial city spaces house informal street vendors, hawkers,and skilled workers. In the spirit [...]

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