URBAN STUDIES II

A STUDY OF
BHUBANESHWAR CITY

SALONI SHAH
SKN COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
4TH YEAR B.ARCH
THE CITY STRUCTURE
 Also with the growth of population
The need for developing residentials
Areas both in private and organized
sectors Lead to development of
Shaheed nagar, Satya nagar , surya
nagar &acharya vihar.
1974-81 1981-85

1985-90 1990-2000
 Keonigsberger suggested 7 types of roads

.footpaths,
.parkways,
.cycle paths,
.Arterial Road (200ft.
wide with 10ft. Wide
foot-paths)
.Major Unit Road (150ft.
Wide)
.Major Housing Street
(100ft. Wide)
Minor Housing street (40ft. Wide)
for seven groups of users for seven different functions.
The overall widths of land earmarked for roads and streets
were not determined by traffic alone but also by
requirements for storm water drainage services like
overhead electric lines, telephone, water and the need of
adequate light and air to the adjoining houses.

A planned city needs to have

.A unique local identity and a sense of place.
.clean natural environment including water and air.
.regular block divided into uniform plots.
. Straight streets intersecting at right angles.
. Rectilinear plots according to predetermined units of
measurements.
.Administrative and government offices planned to be in one
unit of space.
.Hospital ,schools ,open grounds for meeting etc should be
well accessable.
.Green belts and water bodies to be eco-friendly.
 Planning Principles
Design of the New Capital is based which means a group of house
major amenities of urban lifelike schools centres, entertainment, public
libraries, at all enough to keep all these amenities in
the main advantage of rural life can be preserve To avoid boredom and
uniformity the neighbour individually with the object of giving it a distinct
character rand contrast to the Old Town, the land under different segregated
from each other so that the foul smell, smoke or dust industry does not
affect the residential areas not the of a commercial area affect the silent
administrative or educational area.
And Solemnit.
An area of 231 acres has been allotted for an Industrial Estate

Koenigsberger's design laid theWith neighborhood

units were attached. It was desipopulation
40,000.Neighborhood units had all the major
amenities. Each unit v to vi house a population for
5,000-6,000.
It had a clear social agenda in accordance to Nehru's
Policy neither cast nor socio-economic were to exist
and genderequality and education were to be
stressed
. Nehru did not want Bhubaneswar to become a "city
of big buildings" It would accord with the idea of
reducing
differences between rich and poor.