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    This document provides maps and information about the cities of Paro and Thimphu in Bhutan. It includes maps showing the road networks, locations of important places like markets, religious sites, and administrative centers. The maps depict how the cities are laid out and how buildings are clustered closely together. The document also discusses the mountainous terrain around Thimphu, its lack of proximity to rivers, and the traditional architectural styles seen in its monasteries, dzongs, chortens, and palaces. It notes that Thimphu became the capital of Bhutan in 1955.

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    This document provides maps and information about the cities of Paro and Thimphu in Bhutan. It includes maps showing the road networks, locations of important places like markets, religious sites, and administrative centers. The maps depict how the cities are laid out and how buildings are clustered closely together. The document also discusses the mountainous terrain around Thimphu, its lack of proximity to rivers, and the traditional architectural styles seen in its monasteries, dzongs, chortens, and palaces. It notes that Thimphu became the capital of Bhutan in 1955.

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    Imageability and identity Building level- paro

    Imageability and identity Building level- thimphu


    Imageability and identity Node level-paro
    Imageability and identity Node level-thimphu
    THIMPHU CITY The network of the roads
    MAPPING OF THE NATURALLY
    OCCURING FEATURES
    SOCIAL CONTEXT tells about the layout of the
    cities network.
    SETTLEMENT LEVEL STUDY The road network provides
    information about the social
    sites and the important
    places in the city.
    The main road and
    highways are marked
    separately to show the
    hierarchy.
    LEGEND

    River
    Farmlands
    The image presents a birds eye view of the town
    market of the city. It depicts how the important Mountains
    places and administrative centres grew and spread
    and shows
    the building layout in The city of Thimphu has a mountainous terrain. The
    a city level. The areas a little further away are hilly and are densely
    buildings are very occupied by mountains.
    closely build and a
    network of roads The city is not adjacent to the river and is
    runs amidst them for independent of rivers. It has a panaromic view of
    accessibility. the mountain range
    MAP OF THE CITY OF THIMPHU
    It is a very important MAIN ECONOMIC ENGAGEMNETS OF
    SHOWING THE FARMLANDS, BUILT
    city, and arranged in PEOPLE OF PARO:
    MASSES AND ROAD NETWORKS. clusters • TOURISM
    • FARMING
    • INDUSTRIES
    • SERVICES
    • TRADERS
    TYPES OF BUILT FORMS

    MAP OF LOCATION A The distribution of the population age, as represented depicts


    that most of Bhutan’s population is young and therefore, lies
    in the independent category. This suggests that the country is
    open to a lot of new ideas and there is a lot of space for
    exploration in terms of changing economic habits and ideas as
    well as ideas related to their traditional way of living. The
    traditional architectural monuments in Thimphu, as in the rest of Bhutan, are
    of typical Bhutanese architecture of monasteries, dzongs (most striking
    fortress type structures), chortens, gateways, Lhakhangs, other sacred places
    and royal palaces, which are the most distinctive architectural forms of
    Bhutan. Prayer Flags, Mani Walls and Prayer Wheels present a propitious
    setting throughout the urban agglomerate of Thimphu.

    LEGEND
    Thimphu is the largest city and capital of Bhutan.  It is
    situated in the western central part of Bhutan, and the
    surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's dzongkhags, the  Market place
    Thimphu District. The ancient capital city of Punakha was political
    replaced as capital by Thimphu in 1955, and in 1961 Thimphu
    was declared as the capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan by the Residential
    3rd Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. Town area
    Religious
    Administrative
    centre

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