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Ideal Cities

Map Chandigarh 20th century

Chandigarh, postcolonial India’s first planned city. A symbol of freedom built by Nehru’s government, and simultaneously the modern garden town architect Le Corbusier envisioned in his utopia of individual freedom.

Final urbanization plan for the first phase of Chandigarh’s construction, 1952, Le Corbusier.

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