NEIGHBOURHOOD CONCEPT

SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE

PLANNING COMMUNICATION ASSIGNMENT

B. PLANNING (1st SEMESTER)

SUBMITTED BY:
Alyssum Momin
Anisha Sultana
Anvita Nandam Prasad
Patil Gauree Arvind
Shritu Kishore
Shubhrajyoti Sarkar
 NEIGHBOURHOOD
CHANDIGARH SECTOR - 19

1) LAYOUT

Chandigarh is one of the most significant urban planning experiments

of the 20th century. It is the only one of the numerous urban planning
schemes of Le Corbusier to have actually been executed. It is also the
site of some of his greatest architectural creations. The city has had a
far-reaching impact, ushering in a modern idiom of architecture and
city planning all over India. It has become a symbol of planned
urbanism. It is as famous for its landscaping as for its architectural
ambience. Most of the buildings are in pure, cubical form,
geometrically subdivided with emphasis on proportion, scale and
detail.
The key of modern urbanism is ‘the Sector.’ Chandigarh has 30
sectors. We will be doing our study on the neighbourhood of Sector
19.

ROADS
The Sector is a rectangular area surrounded by roads on four of its
sides –
Sarovar Path
Udyog Path
Sukhna Path
Madhya Marg
CONDITION: The condition of the road is good and are well
maintained.

ORIENTATION
The buildings are severely oriented north and south, so that light
enters from the north.

TOPOGRAPHY
Name: Sector 19 topography
Location: Sector 19, Ward 17, Chandigarh, 160019, India (30.72197
76.78483 30.73470 76.80140)
Average elevation: 1,138 ft
Minimum elevation: 1,093 ft
Maximum elevation: 1,194 ft

Latitude: 30.74 North

Longitude: 76.8 East
Altitude: 356.00m/1167.98ft

ARCHITECTURE
Chandigarh, the dream city of India's first Prime Minister, Sh.
Jawahar Lal Nehru, was planned by the famous French architect
Le Corbusier. Picturesquely located at the foothills of Shivaliks,
it is known as one of the best experiments in urban planning and
modern architecture in the twentieth century in India.
Chandigarh became symbolic of the newly independent Indian.

ARCHITECTURAL BACKGROUND:
Le Corbusier was employed for the Master Plan and the Capital
buildings and worked from 1951 until his death in 1965 on the
construction of the city. Pierre Jeanneret, his cousin and partner was
hired as the site architect. Maxwell Fry and Jane B. Drew worked for
about three years on the project and then left due to their engagements
elsewhere. In 1965 M.N. Sharma took over from Pierre Jeanneret as
the first Indian Chief Architect of the Project and after the
reorganization of the State of Punjab in 1966 and the establishment of
Union Territory, Chandigarh, he was appointed as Administrative
Secretary of the Department of Architecture in the Chandigarh
Administration.

MASTER PLAN
The shape of the city plan was modified from one with a curving road
network to rectangular shape with a grid iron pattern for the fast
traffic roads, besides reducing its area for reason of economy. The
city plan was conceived as post war 'Garden City’
All the main roads were straightened out, the dimensions and
organization of the superblocks were reformatted, a complete
hierarchy of circulation was established, the nomenclature was
changed, and the Capital "head" was firmly located in place.

The metaphor of a human being was being employed in the plan - the
'head' contained the capital complex, the 'heart' the commercial centre,
and the 'arms', which were perpendicular to the main axis, had the
academic and leisure facilities.

2) SIZE
Area (2020) - 1.47 km²/ 147 Ha
Population (2020) - 12051
Population Density - 8222 people per km²
Male Population - 6630
Female Population - 5421
Nearest airport & distance (Aerial) - Chandigarh Airport, 5.26 km
Nearest Railway Station & Distance (Aerial) - Chandigarh, 3.47 km

3) LANDUSE
 RESIDENTIAL+ Housing:
The residential buildings are governed by a mechanism known
as ‘frame control’ created by the municipal administration to
control their facades. There is a fixed line and height. Certain
standard sizes of doors and windows are specified and all the
gates and boundary walls conform to standard design. The idea
was to ensure that the view from the street, which belonged to
the community, was of same visual order and discipline to
maintain uniformity.
  Commercial: The sector 19 neighbourhood consists of multiple
commercial utilities. Few of them are listed below:
- Clothing stores
- Departmental shops
- Grocery shops
- Market areas
- Small local business stores
- Restaurants/ cafes
- Delivery services

 Green Spaces: Sector 19 consists of multiple green spaces.

Among them are parks - Sector 19 D Park, Small 19 Sec Park,
Common Park, Sec 19 Park near Sadar Bazar, Park 2 near Sadar
Bazar, a park near temple, Sector 19 Jogging Park, Park by
Catholic Church.
 Transport: It has multiple puplic bus facilities along with
numerous bus stops and an ISBT.
 Utilities: The neighbourhood people can make use of the utility
services such as transportation services such as Uber, OLA, etc.,
plumbers, wastewater treatment services, electrical utilities, dry
cleaning services, etc.

4) FACILITIES
The neighbourhood consists of multiple facilities:
 local shops – Gupta Departmental Store, Radha Karyana Store,
clothing stores, flower shops, etc.
 markets – Palika Market, Sadar Bazar, Market 19
 schools/institudes – Government Model Senior Secondary
School, Sanjeevani Institude of Para Medical Sciences,
Institution of Engineers
 hospitals/clinics – Chandigarh ENT Clinic, Kare partner Care
Centre, ChraYou Cardiac Care
  parks – Common Park, Sector parks, Children Parks etc.
 multiple petrol pumps
 centres – Community Centre Sector 19, Neuro Rehabilitation
Physiotherapy Centre, Panchvati Diagnostic Centre
 educational centres – Centre for Research in Rural and
Industrial Development
 verities of restaurants/cafes – Subway, Café Coffee Day, Samz
Chicken, Kailash Restaurant, National Bakers, etc
 security – Police Station Sector 19C
 banks/ATMs – Bank of Baroda ATM,
 post office – Sub Post Office Sector 19
 bus stops/public transport facilities
 multiple parking areas

5) PEOPLE AND CULTURE

 Places of Worship – there are multiple places of worship,
including different religions.
 Christ The King Cathedral
 Sita Ram Mandir
 Languages – English, Punjabi, Hindi

We can state that, people living in the neighbourhood of

Sector 19 come from different religious backgrounds as there
are multiple places of worship of different religions. This tells
us that there is a unity among the people. They all live
together as one despite their cultural and religious
backgrounds.

CONCLUSION
Chandigarh is undoubtedly one of the most influential form of urban
planning. Sector 19 can be termed as a modern neighbourhood as it
satisfies the needs of the neighbourhood to be modern.
We can state that, people living in the neighbourhood of Sector 19
come from different religious backgrounds as there are multiple
places of worship of different religions. This tells us that there is a
unity among the people. They all live together as one despite their
cultural and religious backgrounds.
Therefore, we can conclude that the Sector 19 neighbourhood is an
ideal one as it comes with multiple facilities, a good community spirit
and a union among the people living there.