TY - GEN AU - Sabikhi, Ranjit TI - Sense of space : the crisis of urban design in India SN - 9789353574673 U1 - 711.40954 PY - 2019/// CY - Noida PB - HarperCollins Publishers India KW - N1 - CONTENTS PREFACE vii INTRODUCTION ix LAND 1 MAN AND THE LAND 1 THE MAGIC OF LANDSCAPE 5 SPACE IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT 21 A CHANGING SCENARIO 21 THE IMPORTANCE OF OPEN SPACE 24 EXPLORATIONS IN URBAN DESIGN 41 EVOLUTION OFAN INDIGENOUS URBAN DESIGN 41 CHANDIGARH-THE CITY OF THE FUTURE 72 DELHI'S CHANGING PROFILE 93 THE COLLAPSE OF PLANNING OF DELHI (1957-2019) 93 MASTER PLAN FOR DELHI 2021 108 DELHI'S SPECIFIC ISSUES 135 CONNAUGHT PLACE-A STORY OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES 135 NEHRU PLACE-DELHI'S FIRST DISTRICT CENTRE 148 BAZAARS, SHOPPING CENTRES AND RETAIL MALLS 157 DELHI NEEDS A MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT NETWORK 164 TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT 171 THE URBAN VILLAGES OF DELHI 178 PLANNING FOR THE URBAN POOR 196 THE FUTURE OF DELHI'S FARMHOUSES 202 THE VIP CULTURE AND LUTYENS'S NEW DELHI 206 DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT URBAN DESIGN SPELLS DISASTER 212 ABSENCE OF PLANNING IS DESTROYING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL 218 URBAN CRISIS 239 DELHI'S URGENT NEED FOR URBAN DESIGN 239 A CALL FOR CHANGE-THE PROPOSED NATIONAL URBAN POLICY FRAMEWORK 242 CONCLUSION 249 INDEX 250 CREDITS 257 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 261 ABOUTTHEAUTHOR 262 ER -