Abstract

To check the haphazard and unplanned growth of Delhi following the partition of the country, a Master Plan of Delhi has been prepared by the Town Planning Organization in conjunction with the Ford Foundation which called in a number of able planners tor consultation: the resident planner was Edward G. Echeverria Albert Mayer has been a senior consultant and Gorden Cullen has served as a civic design consultant. Delhi has been growing at a super-normal rate. Its population 1n 1941 was 695,686; in 1951, 1,437,134; in 1961, 2,344,051; and it is increasing at a rate of 4.8% per annum. By 1981, it is projected that the population will increase to 5,500,000. In order to decentralize commercial activities, and to meet the growing need for shopping and cultural centers of the vast urban expansion of the metropolis, the Master Plan of Delhi provides for the development of 15 District Centers in the outlying Planning Divisions. These will provide all facilities within easy travelling distances. They are composite centers and will have retail shopping, general business, commercial and professional offices, government offices. cinemas, libraries, museums, hotels, restaurants and other places of entertainment. They will also have work-cum-industrial centers, which will include small scale and light manufacturing industries, repair shops and service industry.

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Print version in library: https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b2137939~S2

Author's Department

Graduate School of Architecture

Document Type

Restricted Thesis

Date of Award

8-1-1966

Language

English (en)

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