• Neeraja Desai Nauratra

Chandigarh ,the capital of Punjab and Haryana as designed by Le Corbusier is the best example of how sector planning as a unit of the city was effectively used in the city . This paper attempts to review another paper titled Neighborhood Planning in Capital City of Chandigarh-An Appraisal by Jit Kumar Gupta and complement it by site visit to sector 22of Chandigarh city and photodocument it by photographs . Neighbourhood is a planning concept used by planners to create cities within cities ,decentralize cities .It is a concept done to make cities more humane,safe and socially active .All amenities are made available within a neighbourhood within walking distance. Neighbourhood planning is an American concept started by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright. This model was used by them In Radburn neighbourhoods ,one of the pioneer works of urbanism. The model comprised of four levels the enclave, the block,the superblock and the neighbourhood. This paper attempts to review an earlier paper by Prof Jit Kumar Gupta titled “Neighbourhood Planning in capital city of Chandigarh “.My review of this paper and a site visit to Chandigarh would show how the neighbourhood plan,an American concept is not used in the planning of Chandigarh rather the French notion of the sector has been used. The result shows that the planning of Chandigarh does not have the neighbourhood plan but the sector plan as the basis of design in Chandigarh.this result can have important learnings to apply in the case of Amravathi.

enclave, superblock ,decentralisation

"Sector Planning in Capital City Chandigarh,-An Appraisal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.1195-1201, December 2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDT06195.pdf

"Sector Planning in Capital City Chandigarh,-An Appraisal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp1195-1201, December 2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDT06195.pdf