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Ancient India Urban Planning

Design of the cities. Location map of harappa source ancient system of town planning in india barrack like group of single roomed tenements were for the poorer classes.

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These workers lived in their own community based gramas or villages example a grama where only carpenters lived and came to cities only for their work.

Ancient india urban planning. The cities of the indus river valley exhibit or show evidence of urban planning. Excavations of indus towns have demonstrated the most ancient town planning in the world. Bathrooms in every house with chutes leading to drainage channels.

Basic house plans single room tenements houses with courtyards houses rooms on 3 sides opening into a central courtyard nearly all large houses had private wells. This kind of careful planning of cities is referred to as urban planning. The people built with clay bricks.

Each brick was exactly the same size. Hearths brick or stone lined fireplace or oven often used for cooking and or heating common in rooms. The grid pattern straight streets intersecting other straight streets at right angles is among the most common and universal types of town planning.

The experience of many g enerations has proved that the planning of the villages towns cities and cap itals of ancient india which were co nsidered best as it gave health and peacefulness. India s first civilization location. As we look at the various books that deal with architecture in ancient india we find that the cities were chiefly built by nagara vardhaka or city planners architects who had help from assistants like itthaka vardhaki brick layers and vaddhaki carpenters.

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