RESIDENTS WELFARE ASSOCIATION Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF CHANDIGARH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) "Let this be a new town, symbolic of freedom of India unfettered by the traditions of the past..an expressions of the nations faith in the future".

(3.) After India attained independence in the year 1947, the Government of Punjab in consultation with the Government of India approved the site for the new Capital of the State in March 1948. The new city was designed by French Architect Le Corbusier in association with other architects, namely, Pierre Jeanneret, Jane B. Drew and Maxwell Fry. The city was planned as a living example of urban design, landscaping and architecture. It was a city to be created with the use of ordinary construction materials and embellished with integral works of art. Chandigarhs monumental architecture as enunciated by Le Corbusier is based on the principles of town planning concept of Sun, Space, and Verdure. Le Corbusier incorporated principles of light, space and greenery in the plan and used the human body as a metaphor - the head contained the Capital Complex, the heart being the Commercial Centre, i.e., Sector 17, lungs (the leisure valley, innumerable open spaces and sector greens), the intellect (the cultural and educational institutions), the viscera (the industrial area), and the arms having academic and leisure facilities like open courtyards etc. The circulation system was conceived as having seven types of roads known as 7Vs.