India's Planned Capital City (Designed by Le Corbusier)
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2020
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This video is a synthesis of these articles:
1. Perera *, N. (2004). Contesting visions: Hybridity, liminality and authorship of the Chandigarh plan. Planning Perspectives, 19(2), 175-199. doi.org/10.1080/0266543042000...
2. Chalana, M., & Sprague, T. S. (2013). Beyond Le Corbusier and the modernist city: Reframing Chandigarh’s ‘World Heritage’ legacy. Planning Perspectives, 28(2), 199-222. doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2013...
3. Fitting, P. (2002). Urban planning/utopian dreaming: Le Corbusier's Chandigarh today. Utopian Studies, 13(1), 69-93.
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Edited by Eric Schneider in cloudy Cleveland, Ohio.
Shoutout to all of the people watching this video to get inspiration for their next Cities: Skylines session!
Sorry about that -- I didn't realize it was the wrong map.
@@CityBeautiful Often, when you get a comment like this, it's because part of the/a border is disputed, and you used a map that either predates the dispute, or that shows it as if it had been resolved one way or the other. When that is the case, the complaint is, pretty much without fail, from someone living in the country on the side of the dispute the map does not favour.
Not helped by google maps delivering each side of the dispute a map which corresponds to what their government says the map Should be, and everyone else a map either indicating that the area is disputed, a border based on something like the current points at which border guards will stop you when you try to cross, the pre-dispute border, or something else entirely (and being unreliable about which they use).
Given that this individual didn't say what was wrong with the map, and the phrasing, I'd assume the above to be the case, then ignore it and move on, as swapping the map (or anything of that nature) will just get the same complaint from the other side.
Does my article I made a few years back hold a candle to your video? What do you guys think?
Also the sector thing! So many Indian cities follow the sector/zone naming conventions. Makes me feel like I'm in Soviet Russia.
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Oh yes! Did you know that Cities Skylines was out for 5 years on March 10th?
I would like to correct you over Pakistan and India Split. It wasn't because Hindus and Muslims Wanted separate country.
It was muslims Who wanted a separate country hence Pakistan was created. The rest of the people like sikhs, Hindus, Christians,etc had to live in India altogether. The Constitution of India isn't based of Faith but in Pakistan Islamic rules apply.
I'm from Kolkata, India.
I have visited Chandigarh, believe me it's the best city I have ever seen. So green, wide roads with no congestion, beautiful buildings, made me feel like I'm not in any typical Indian city.
It's my dream to settle in Chandigarh.
Lol, I live there and don't feel its so special.
@Aravind R so true I live in chandigarh and whenever I go to cities like Delhi I feel so claustrophobic and stressed its a blessing to live here
The difference is that Chandigarh has just 10 lakh people. Kolkata has 1.5 crore people. If Chandigarh has 15 times its population it would be a mess too.
Yea Islamabad is the same
Wide roads aren't good
The reconstruction of Pyongyang is impressive too, my grandpa rebuilt it from a destroyed war zone to a prosperous capital. The US pretty much destroyed the city and he was able to fix it
When do you plan on finishing that hotel?
Rob K awwwwwwwwwww man lol
Rob K its gonna be a Trump Hotel
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>Designed by Le Corbusier
Oh no.
BadlanderOutsider, definitely oh no.
Meeeee hahahahahhah
A brilliant artist, but a horrible urbanist. It's a shame they had him designing city blocks and not homes. If he was more of a Frank Lloyd Wright I think he would be remembered entirely fondly.
@@TheSpecialJ11 I think he was a genius city planner/urbanist.
@@antisatanist5017 the best at building depressing cities to keep the populace in check
Would be cool if you talked about the old Aztec capital Tenochtitlán
As a Mexican, I would love it, but I think it's kinda of difficult
This would be VERY cool!
I bet it smelled like shit and a horrible amount of mosquitoes
@@BrandonWilliams-wf6hg It was actually one of the cleanest cities in the world due to it's aqueducts and canal system. It was also one of the largest cities in the world if not the largest. Citizens of the Aztec empire in general enjoyed some of the highest living standards of their time and had easy access to healthcare services. Europeans who saw it were astonished at just how clean and nice the city was despite being way larger than anything seen in Europe. The Spanish didn't really learn from it though and built Mexico City on top of it and drained the lake, leading to the current issues Mexico City has with getting enough clean drinking water.
The major Mississippian city of Cahokia would be awesome to learn about too!
Everytime I hear Le Corbusier, I shriek and despair over the tragic death of functionality I'm about the hear about, again.
I am also not a fan. I like liveable cities.
I really like my home town of Groningen in that regard: Very walkable and bicycle friendly.
Yeah, and it's not even good looking either. Who wants to live amongst dirty, grey concrete walls?
@@rogerwilco2 i visited Groningen last summer on a whim and I must say it's a fantastic place. perfect size for me. so pretty.
At least he gave Chandigarh a grid pattern. It takes 15 minutes to get from one end of the city to other end from anywhere.
@@surfexcel9178 He advocated destroying a lot of historic buildings and sometimes whole areas to replace them with your standard concrete block constructions that look awful and are practically terrible, which he'd then self congratulate as being brave and artistic and beautiful. And lots of other architects and policitians and businessmen liked him, so he helped popularise destroying irreplaceable or functional things with cheap, non functioning, depressing vanity projects
Le Corbusier's buildings are even more soul crushing than the Soviet architecture I grew up around.
A lot of brutalism’s features work really well in hot, sunny climes. I grew up surrounded by it, and concrete overhangs provide great shade, while decorative breezeways provide ventilation… and seeing the architecture always makes me feel all happy and nostalgic. You also have to understand the era: the ‘60s and ‘70s felt like the gateway into the future, with humanity reinventing itself… and relative to that, everything from the ‘80s on has seemed like a snap back into a grim, dull past. So brutalism’s futuristic elements felt (and feels!) optimistic and grand to me, full of hope. On the practical side, the ‘50s and ‘60s were a period of rapid urbanization, and brutalism’s style (with concrete as the era’s most advanced, versatile construction material) could accommodate rapid growth - it was about a statement, but it was also practical. (The same could be said about Mies van der Rohe’s style: it makes a statement, but it’s also useful for quick, massive, cheap construction. And like brutalism, its impact and statement are later diminished by the proliferation of poorly-designed ugly cookie-cutter knockoffs: compare some Mies buildings in downtown Chicago to the ugly imitative boxes that later sprang up around the South Loop.) Anyhow. I’m a big fan of brutalism. Of course, as people learned more about urban planning, it became apparent that variety is important, so the earlier idea of planned cities - drawing a sharp line between residential areas and commercial area - had to be rethought into more vibrant mixed-use communities, and too much of any one style is, of course, too much. But I quite like brutalism in general, and Le Corbusier in particular.
@@danopticon , I totally disagree with you. I'm from Brazil, and brutalist architeture is even worse in hot sunny climates. It's a living hell. Literally hell hot soul crushing ugly buildings.
@@guilhermecavalcantevieira5730 I disagree with you. Its great.
Houses, according to Le Corbu, are "machines for living in". That says so much.
@@guilhermecavalcantevieira5730 Brasilia is weird but I really love the brutalist buildings in São Paulo
I visited Chandigarh for the first time just last month in Feb 2020. Cgarh is not the only planned city (there is Navi Mumbai, New Delhi, etc.) but it is the best one. A very good blend of spacious and coziness. A great change coming from the rest of crowded cities feeling of India.
PS: I get the critisism, but lots of places with tons of 'character' (looking at you Chandini Chowk) gets overwhelming after 2 days.
0:57 Omg it is literally called The City Beautiful! Is that why you stumbled upon it? XD
No, but that was a nice surprise!
Have you even been to Chandigarh in first place ?
The city of Chandigarh is nicknamed "the city beautiful" and can often be seen in signboards in Chandigarh, official website and other places. This is Independent India's first planned city and really the most beautiful (Indian) planned city so far.
The irony! The ugliest planned city would make more sense.
Just pointing out a common mistake about Brasilia: although Niemeyer took the credit for planning the new Brasil's capital, it was another architect who did it. Lucio Costa was the one who won the contest to plan the new Capital's urbanism (it is a really interesting story actually, worthy the research). Niemeyer, who worked for Costa for a long time as interne, was responsible only for the buildings, the architecture itself.
As a Chandigarh native, thank you for making this video. I was wondering when my favourite channel would talk about my favourite city.
Most of the negative comments are probably from salty fellow Indians who live in comparative waste dumps like Delhi, Mumbai or Bangalore. (Don't lynch me I'm just kidding)
More seriously though, I'll add my 2 rupees here:
I was born and raised in the City and spent the first 22 summers there, before moving out.
Chandigarh fails to impress if you just visit the place as a tourist. What makes the city great is the livability. While other Indian cities are bursting at the seams, Chandigarh has still managed to retain some of its sleepy, laid-back character despite the rapid growth and expansion.
The fields of Punjab and the mighty Himalayas are also an hour's drive away. ( This is what I personally miss the most).
The biggest downside, I'll admit, is the over-reliance on cars. The people here are solidly upper-middle class and there's the Punjabi love for big cars and SUV's to boot.
However, the govt. has created cycling tracks throughout the city, the place is already very pedestrian friendly and the Govt. is mulling on a rapid transport system (Metrorail, BRTS or monorail, we'll see).
Thanks for your perspective! I love comments like these that can add additional context to the video.
This is the kind of comment I was looking for
Exactly!
Even Navi Mumbai is called as being character less and dull.
It has high reliance on cars aswell.
But! It's a very livable city! I live in Thane which is a good city aswell, but Navi Mumbai offers a better standard of living.
I think people are too quick to get riled up about "ugly" things. Plenty of things in our world are ugly but they work and that's what matter. In Denmark we have the IC3 diesel train which is definitely one of the ugliest trains ever built but fuck that because it works like hell, it's been in service for 30 years now and has been a reliable workhorse of the Danish railways and it's remained modern and comfortable to ride in the whole time, I mean they got free wi-fi before some high speed rail got it. Meanwhile the IC4 which is more traditionally "pretty" is a fucking shitshow, it was ordered to replace the IC3s but it's been unreliable, some of them didn't even have brakes and one ended up in fucking Libya somehow, they've now been downgraded to serve only on a few regional lines meanwhile the IC3s continue to work reliably and comfortably. If the only bad thing you can say about something is that it's "ugly" then that's probably a pretty good indication that, that's the only issue with it and otherwise it works perfectly fine. Focusing on beauty over functionality is irresponsible and lazy and only leads to building 500 carbon copies of the same things because they're "pretty" you're just gonna have to accept that not everything can look like whatever specific piece of architecture you foam over.
@hedgehog3180 On one hand yeah, function is definitely more important that form, but I think you're dismissing form too harshly. We need some beauty so we don't go insane in some late-soviet hellscape.
Interesting coincidence - Chandigarh‘s official nickname is “the city beautiful”
The most soulsouching 11 months of my life.
Le corbusier seems weirder the more I learn about him
I dont get why he gets praised so much. In my opinion his ideas may been revolutionary and new for his time, but are a urban nightmare (specially in the context of our time).
A lot of people might not know but le Corbusier was most probably dyslexic
Hence his obsession with geometry n simplified structures
@@kingjellyfish7909 because he was more architect than urbanist
@@basundhrapaul3016 Well, I think I might be dyslexic
Ppl who hate him seem weirder the more I learn about him
As a resident of Chandigarh, when this video came up in my recommendation, I was confused for a moment. You see, Chandigarh is also called "The City Beautiful". (Also visible on the signboard at 0:53) I at first thought this channel named "City Beautiful" was affiliated to Chandigarh City Authority. XD
Great video. You earned a sub.
Chandigarh is like planned heaven in the midst of a poorly planned Punjab and Haryana. But thanks to the Tricity area (Chandigarh-Mohali-Panchkula) and the lessons learned from them, the rest of the cities are fast evolving into planned cities.
The Tricity area has everything, from posh malls to serene lush gardens to man-made and natural lakes. As another comment has pointed out, the only drawback is the public transport system. Although the CTU (Chandigarh Transport Union) buses are quite abundant and usually punctual, yet most households have at least 2 or more vehicles. Uber and Ola (Indian Uber) have made things somewhat different though.
"The Tricity area has everything, from posh malls to serene lush gardens to man-made and natural lakes."
How much of that would it have without two tax-funded state governments?
@@nemo6686 every city has a tax-funded state government behind it. What are you saying?
I find Corbusiers vision of cities and architecture sooooo horrible i could cry. Thank god he didnt turn beauties like Paris into cubic concrete hells
@Hernando Malinche WHOA slow down there European supremacist
@Hernando Malinche racist
@I OFFER YOU THIS I would not be that harsh but I do agree that the man was terrible and extremely short sighted. He should have stuck to more people-centric methods of building.
@@_blank-_ it gets blurrier because the racial differences between a berliner and parisian are a bit harder to spot than the differences between a parisian and an average indian, but in short, yes.
Georges-Eugene Haussmann has been often compared to Le Corbusier. Different eras. Different architecture. Have some tolerance to both styles. If it wasn't for the WWII bombings, we wouldn't be talking about Le Corbusier.
0:58 found the channel name in the video :)
It's like they knew I would do a video about the city one day.
And the next thing is a bird statue, not what I thought originally.
It's a scaled down version of the Open Hand Monument situated in the Capitol Complex.
I am born and brought up in Chandigarh and interestingly I'm also familiar with Le Corbusier's other works. Honestly if you ask me , Chandigarh would easily be his greatest creation and infact the only successful one. It's well planned , atleast 80% greener than your average Indian cities and has one of the most civilized and educated native population. The public transport is efficient and timely , the police is disciplined and enforces the rules stringently and despite having no metro or rapid transit system , their is not even any need of having one. Chandigarh is nicknamed "City Beautiful" and their is a strong reason why it's said so. I have lived all over India in last 12 years and trust me , Chandigarh is the cleanest and best cities I have ever seen. If you're an Indian and haven't been here , you must visit atleast once before becoming a keyboard warrior and justifying how your so called "old city" has more life. If you're not from India , visit all Indian cities before and then visit Chandigarh to see the difference yourselves.
You do understand it's so because of it being a UT as well as capital for 2 states with one of the highest GDPs...and yes the GDP part on both states is appreciable!
And yet, cracks are now beginning to develop. The growth of vehicular population and the Indianization of Chandigarh is taking a toll.
All Indian cities are ultimately doomed: from sleepy towns, they will ultimately become a cesspool of chaotic traffic, noise, pollution and garbage. A sad fact that very few Indians would be willing to acknowledge.
@@abhisheksumanAS lol do check how other UTs are doing. I'm from Pondicherry and it's quite bad these days. The entire city now feels like a clustered mess with so much traffic and lobbying. Wish it could improve lot more.
that's why there needs to be more walkable and cycling lanes and less reliance on cars@@gautamv952
I'm just curious, If Chandigarh is so amazing then why not Chandigarh become job giver city like gurugram, noida, pune, Bangalore.. And all this cities are newly built and grow after independence as same as Chandigarh.. Why people find more better future in Mumbai, pune, Bangalore, delhe ncr. Why not they migrate to Chandigarh..
Why this City not city'ing..
And as you said Chandigarh people is most mannered people, then why not people migrate to Chandigarh to avoid hatred they get in others cities..
And part of high gdp per capita, because Chandigarh me bohot saare NRI's ke family rehti hai, with retired government officials who already have earn big money in other cities and now they spent their retired life in Chandigarh to spend their big money.. And why not they spent their money to in Chandigarh for making new businesses for generatiog more employment like other city people doin..
Don't take me like I'm hater of Chandigarh, but Don't you think this questions make sense..
Please tell me where I'm going wrong I'm open to understand..
Le Corbusier is French for "The Ugly."
Le Quaruntine
@ludovicoC then what does Courbevoie mean?
I'm living in Chandigarh watching this video and never knew such beautiful historic progressions behind this city's design.
Niemeyer did not design Brazil's capital city, it was Lucio Costa who design it, Niemeyer "only" did the buildings on the monumental axis and the palaces.
I was about to comment that.
A tragedy as well
@@RodrigoRangel brasilia is great wdym
@@aitor.online great viewed by above
The Brazilian Le Corbusier, makes a city of blocks that has no life, everything is far from people, even people is far from people.
Amazing video! The city in which I live, Bhubaneswar, was one of the first planned cities to be built in India, along with Chandigarh. It was designed by German Architect Otto Königsberger. I hope you can make a video about it someday, I’d love to know more. Beautiful channel bdw!
No offence but Chandigarh looked 3-4 times better than Bhubaneshwar to me. There is scope for improvement I feel.
@@amoghthorave3385 non taken because I never made any point about which looks better. Planning isn't about how pretty something looks at the present, but how much room for development it provides in future. And I feel Bhubaneswar is well prepared if there comes a time when there is a sudden increase in population. A problem which I feel many major metros have failed to deal with. Again it's all about political and bureaucratic will power, so fingers crossed.
Le Corbusier seems to have been such an arrogant and self-absorbed person. Beware of people reasoning in absolutes ! (No, I'm not saying Le Corbusier was a Sith ;) )
I like absolutes, that is how I know what is ugly or beautiful, good or bad, correct or wrong. Le Corbusier didn't speak in absolutes as much as he did in demands. I would say beware of people who are not diplomatic.
This video puts together concepts and designs from some of your previous videos in an interesting way. And I'm always here for history and for India. Cool video!
When I was in college 45 years ago I took a course which included studies of Chandigarh and Villla Kennedy, a planned district for Bogota. The instructor pointed out the adaptability of the Villa Kennedy project, where American style separation of functions was replaced as buildings were repurposed and added onto to make them work for the way of life of the residents. By contrast he showed us Chandigarh, where monumental spaces created dead zones around the government buildings. He also pointed out that the original commercial streets were too wide and the residents used the alleyways behind the commercial buildings as the market place, recreating a familiar and comfortable atmosphere. This was in Houston, which is on about the same latitude as Chandigarh. We all understood right away how those plazas and wide open boulevards would be sun-blasted and unbearable in daytime for half the year. But it's nice to learn that not all of Chandigarh turned out that way.
Couldn't agree more.
As someone who was lucky enough to live in Chandigarh for three years, from the time I was 15 to 18, Chandigarh remains a childhood utopian dream for me. Since my dad worked in a public sector bank and since there is a huge turnover of public sector workforce like him in the city (since it serves as capital to two states and has the relevant Central Government offices like bank headquarters and the High Court), we lived in three different sectors as our leases in this much in demand city for housing ran out. The numbering of the sectors also designates how subsequent iterations of the same idea manifested differently over the years as the city filled up. The first 24 or so sectors are the original ones with the administrative buildings, largest parks, the biggest shopping district and the bus stand. We lived in Sector 37 for the first year. It had four sub blocks; A,B,C and D. C had the block market and A, B and D were mostly residential. There was a central circular ring road to link all four blocks on four ends of the grid block sectors which connected inner traffic to the outer sectors. Next was Sector 38 next door. The sizes of the units go down from A to D though it won't seem as distinct as it sounds. We had a bigger house then. Lastly we lived in 44D where the smaller housing units were where the bank my dad worked for had made its own captive housing apartments. These had their own size difference in terms of housing for executives and middle managers, but tastefully done in that the whole complex was integral to the community and right next to the market.
Generally the parks got smaller as the sectors rose in number because later in its building and closer to us in time, more and more people were required to make the city the capital it is for two provinces. The roundabouts now have traffic signals though since it has the highest car ownership level in India. It has two sub cities built by the two provinces:Mohali and Panchkula which they made when they realised that neither was gonna get the Union Territory. Most of the newer expansion of State administrative machinery has happened there. Those cities also have more traditional housing blocks of Indian cities.
The interesting thing about all three of them is that wherever there was a village in the way of the expansion of the city, the city grid swallowed them but didn't change or break them down. And funnily, the city's vertical limit on buildings doesn't apply to them, so suddenly in the middle of the prim, green, grid, you have an urban village that resembles the closely clustered streets that you associate with the denser parts of Delhi or Mumbai.
It was fun. Going on a date or grabbing a beer with the guys was just a walk away, though we raced around on cycles because most of the city was within pedalling distance. The population was mostly government functionaries and political/business elite who could buy the more expensive and larger plots back then.
I loved living there. But back then, as now, we probably couldn't afford a house there because of the restrictions on unit size or urban sprawl that makes it unique (I currently live in Delhi, in a sub-city next to the airport, which is larger than most European or American cities with more than one million people in it already😓)...
So, distinctive experience...it was fun while it lasted...(sigh!!!)....
There's a pretty good debate in India in recent times contrasting Chandigarh, a city planned during the era of central planning and Soviet-style economics against a more recent city, Gurugram, which was built pretty much entirely by private corporations.
Here's a view: ua-cam.com/video/8pKWIdvLalk/v-deo.html
Gurugram sounds fucking hellish.
@@hedgehog3180 it literally means "village of teachers"
@@hedgehog3180 It used to be called Gurgaon and I do not recognise a place called Gurugram
@@unclepodger it was called gurugram for far longer before it was mangled into gurgaon, no one gives a fuck as to what you recognize or not
@@tentathesane8032 people still refer it to Gurgaon. They literally mean the same thing anyways. It's not like Mumbai where people called it that even before the name change from Bombay.
Awesome video, very insightful.
It's a nice coincidence that your channel name is same as Chandigarh's motto.
(Also great driving footage!)
I don't usually comment on videos, but i had to say this:
I understand that most people don't like concrete blocks, but there is no need to put all the blame and hate on Corbu. Concrete was fairly new and revolutionary, and Corbu's designs were futuristic for it's time. It's just over the years other people have taken concrete and ran wild with it without taking the considerations and care that Corbu put into his designs. It might seem old fashioned and unsuitable now, but that's design. Times change and cities grow to be different with the changing design trends. No need to hate on a guy who was designing according to the trends of the day. Who knows, maybe a few decades down the road we might hate glass high-rise towers as much as we hate concrete blocks now (which it seems to be happening now)
I think only people who studied architecture would appreciate Corbu's pdesigns. Don't get me wrong, a lot of people in architecture don't like bare concrete blocks as well, but most architects would appreciate the design of it. I would know, cause i am studying to be an architect ;>
@I OFFER YOU THIS I mean this city was literally built from scratch on farmland. If it was an attempt to modernize a more historic or traditional city of India, then it could be seen as destruction of culture. I have lived in Chandigarh, it is one of the best cities in North India.
Concrete is older than France, its not new in Corbusier times.
Design isn't about how beautiful your vision is, but about how practical and useful your solution is. Design is a process, and the main issue with concretisation is that there is very little possibility for extension or advancement. Although Chandigarh is one of the best cities in north India due to its newly settled and planned urban agglomeration, car dependency and wide roads make the city less walkable and unsafe for cyclists. However, it is still better than many other cities because it has basic infrastructures such as footpaths. However, navigating the indistinguishable sectors of Chandigarh is a nightmare for those who are directionally challenged. And the brutalist architecture lacks any sense of Identity and culture.
Many Indians are going to be mad about the wrong boundary man.
Doesn't bother me. We don't control those areas anyway
Exactly, definitely before may 2024 ☺️
@@mitanshubaranwal8878 # haha good joke 😂 dreams are for free 🤣
@@sa..owayam3858 lol
He explained the partition really poorly
04:57 nice choice of background video...Le Mans, France, which bulldozed part of its city centre to create a throughfare in the 1970s (though not really geometrically...) and now quite a livable city with a pedestrianised centre !
Love to see the channel getting bigger!
Nice video. Would love to see your take about more Indian cities and/or capitals of the world.
Thanks a lot for making a video on my hometown! Chandigarh is consistently ranked as the cleanest and safest city in India. Although not an industrial hub, it sure is a great place.
But you can see that lot of Europeans in the comment section think differently. They think that you should live in slums because they are more natural, organic, sophisticated and beautiful.
It's good to see content variety.
You’re awesome buddy! Keep up the great work.
As someone who has lived all his life in Chandigarh, I am so happy that someone finally made a video about the city I have lived in. Thank you City Beautiful for making a video on The City Beautiful ;)
I visited a couple of years ago. It was really awesome to see this architecture. Wide bicycle lanes in India... the rose park was also pretty cool as well as the big plazas.
Lol. Chandigarh architecture is beautiful only for indians.
For india is known to posses world's shittiest houses and cities.
I'm not sure theres another planner/architect I hate more than Le Corbusier...
This is a man who wanted to tear down Paris to rebuild it looking like ghetto projects...
Yeah I'm glad he didn't get what he wanted. I hate him too.
On the other hand rent prices in Paris are through roof (presumably because the buildings are just not tall enough).
+ᴅᴇᴀʀ ᴍʀ. ɪꜱᴀɪᴀʜ ᴅᴇʀɪɴɢᴇʀ; Paris is the densest major first-world city (people per sq-km), so I don't think the height is really an issue. Paris is interesting because it's relatively short (5-6 stories) but it maintains that height throughout the city, while cities like New York or London are tall in the center, but drop to 3 or 2 stories really quickly.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_population_density
Also theres plenty of space in the world to build new cities without tearing down the ones we already have
it would have helped current insaine population density in Paris and make it more livable.
Great video!
Great video keep it up!
Would love to see a video about the ancient and present city of Kyoto, Japan!
I've been there enroute Delhi to Shimla. The "city" doesn't feel like a city at all. It's feels a giant overgrown village pretending to be an urban space. We had a scheduled stop at the Chandigarh bus depot which is in the middle of the city. The bus took a left from the highway, then a right a few metres later onto another highway. These were wide highways with large dividers (with trees), then even larger dividers on either side of the highway, with service roads on either side of that, and then more tree space further out. There were some empty plots, some bungalows and other buildings. It felt like I was on the outskirts of some city but nowhere close to being in an actual city. A few turns later we reached the bus stop. Google Maps showed that I was inside Chandigarh for the last few minutes. The scenery never changed.
I usually criticise Navi Mumbai for being a boring planned city but it is so much better than whatever Chandigarh is. Ugly, dead, lifeless and wasteful. It's no surprise that the best place in the city is the rock garden, the one place that was (and illegally) created with love, and not planned by some megalomaniac. Thank fuck they didn't demolish it.
Just watch this one video and I can tell I'm going to love this channel.
Instant sub
0:55 "Welcome to Chandigarh. The CITY BEAUTIFUL."
Now we know where the idea for the name of this channel came from! 😜
he said that was a coincidence
If you can, try doing a video about the growth of Hargeisa, Somalia since 1988!
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Somaliland!
Chandigarh stands out when it comes to Indian cities. Gardens, roads and hotels are the best over there. If any American or European person feels homesick in India, he/she should def consider visiting this beautiful city.
That audience retention graph is interesting. The shallow dip at the beginning is interesting, but more so the big dip at the end (which probably relates to ads at the ends of your videos).
Thanks for making a video on our city, i have been living in the city since 1997.
“Its City Beautiful” is on the sign at the beginning.
I really want to see your opinions on summerlin in Las Vegas cause it's the definition of suburban sprawl but it also has ideas of the garden city and other things and also the first modern round about
You should do a video about Richland Washington, a city designed by the federal government to house works for the Manhattan project. It's design was unique because of how fast it was built as well as the time in which it was built.
Really interesting video! It's nice to learn more about the history of cities around the world. But i must say that there has been a misinformation in the video at 7:35 , when actually Brasília was designed by Lucio Costa. It's a very interesting subject, it would be nice if the channel talked about this modernist city as well.
Say what you want about Chandigarh, but considering it's relatively small size and not as big of a significance as Bangalore or the rich cultural history of Hyderabad, Chandigarh really is an amazing place! It's organised & clean - something extremely rare in India! I wish to visit there one day.
As much as I love Chandigarh, with the expansion of the area into a tricity which includes the urban areas of Mohali and Pachkula, you could argue that its 20th century planning is getting overweighed by the sheer growing population of the tricity. Over the 6 of years I have lived in this city, I have seen some new set of challenges in terms of traffic on the roads. its still a lot better than most other capital cities in india, its gradually taking turn for the worse and since we dont have a flyover system in the city, things could get more challenging in the future.
7:36 Brasilia's urban planner was Lucio Costa. Niemeyer was one of the judges of the contest that chose Lucio Costa's project and later on became responsible of the buildings design.
[Brazilian Architect Here] Just an elucidation: The Planner of Brasília is Lúcio Costa. Niemeyer was the designer of most of its iconic buildinds!
Ever heard of Navi Mumbai, world's largest planned city by lots of records. Please check that out to see what India can plan
1:17 the map of India some areas are missing there
Anyway great vidio very interesting
In which case it is up to your army to fix
@@iamcleaver6854 The other side has nukes, tho.
I was dying to hear this side about Chandigarh n Le Corbusier
Thanks for making d video
It's basically India's Milton Keynes. (Only Brits will get the reference)
And city planning nerds like me.
@@CityBeautiful That's wonderful. Will you talk about Britain's New Town Act 1946 one day?
I'm Canadian but have heard lots about Milton Keynes. None of it good, except for a '90s tv show about a frustrated chef.
American here and I got that one!
I'm Indian and am familiar with MK for some decades even if I only came to know about its "garden city" status later.
Great video as always. Brasilia was not planned by Niemeyer, thou. It was planned by Lúcio Costa!
You are right -- I think I mindlessly copied an erroneous source when I wrote that into my script. Sorry Costa didn't get his due! I'm sure I'll make a Brasilia video someday and give him the credit he deserves.
@@CityBeautiful Only human =D
Very excited to hear about a video on Brasilia. It is certainly a unique city. The best and worst of modernist city planning... huge awkward empty spaces, but at the same time, a masterclass in superblock planning.
0:50 "Welcome to Chandigarh, the City Beatif--" HANG ON A SECOND
honestly on ground level it looks better than a lot of places here
Great video! Small correction, though: Niemeyer designed the mains buildings of Brasilia, but it’s urban plan is the work of Lucio Costa!
I just discovered your youtube channel i actually belong to Chandigarh it’s my hometown i moved to United States with my parents when i was in middle school thank you so much for making this video 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Is that where your name comes from? The sign said "welcome to Chandigarh, the city beautiful"
The name for the channel comes from the "City Beautiful" movement. But just the name. It's not an endorsement of the movement itself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Beautiful_movement
Besides you're from the city of trees :)
When City Beautiful makes a video about City Beautiful
Please consider doing a vid on England's 'new town' Milton Keynes, including the experimental road system (lots and lots of roundabouts). Thanks!
This reminds me a lot of my home city, Brasília. Is there a video about it in this channel? If no, you definitely should consider doing one.
Oh, you mentioned it now, sorry :P
Brasilia's plan wasn't made by Niemeyer. He only designed the iconic buildings. The city was designed by Lucio Costa, a very interesting character in Brazilian architecture and urban planning history and theory. I believe you would really enjoy reading about his work. 🙂
True, my bad!
@@CityBeautiful No worries! 😀
Every time I hear or read the name Corbusier I get a sinking feeling of dread and disappointment.
Le Corbusier was a genius, put some respect on his name
His a better architect than urbanist. His merit is making concrete in a building a maleable material, and making buildings architectonic sculptures.
THEPedroTHE THETHE what the hell is Architectonic?
@@colg8_ LeCorbusier is responsible for more ugliness, more horrible city planning, more destruction of old workable wonderful neighborhoods and cities than anyone living or dead. The man was a psychopathic monster and belongs to the dung heap of history. Respect? Ha! Contempt and denunciation is all this twit deserves.
@THEPedroTHE THETHE He's a crappy architect too. Concrete is a terrible material (in terms of environmental impact, beauty, longevity) and he's completely reliant on it. In addition most of his buildings aren't HUMAN-scale. They look alright-ish from the sky, but I don't spend much time looking at my city through a helicopter, so...
now that you have talked about chandigarh i would love to hear about your takes on new delhi aka lutyens delhi
I enjoyed this video but would have really appreciated more images of the city being discussed (not just maps), and more explanation of how it functions well or not so well.
I'm from Chandigarh (though currently living in Seattle). Happy to answers any questions you may have.
And yes the city functions well.
Man, you totally should do a similar video about the biggest planned city ever built, Brasília, Brazil's capital. It is a modernist city as well, but with pretty unique characteristics, you should check it out!
Yep, someday!
yeah obviously he is aware of it, and so was Jan Gehl when calling it "bird shit architecture" and the topic is dead now.
Abuja too
@@TheBombson Jan Gehl is a knowledgeable architect and his books are interesting, but he's also an extremist, very prejudiced against anything modern. He's the anti-Le Courbusier. And he thinks Venice is a great city, a model for other cities. Venice is at best an interesting study case and tourist attraction, so I take anything he says with a huge grain of salt.
@@lazyboy300 his very book showcases modern (postmodern) architecture on human scale. I wouldn't go as far to type you had not even read it but you did just falsely accuse a man of extremism and prejudice. I know you had no intention but it is exactly the tactic used to scare people into group thinking and cultural marxism. If you studied architecture they probably have trained you to do so.
British: Gives Lahore to Pakistan
India: So Anyways I started Building
U watch polandball eh
The image you used at 6:00 is of Chandigarh University, which, unlike the name suggests, is not located in Chandigarh but 20 km away from it
D'oh!
Could you do a video on Indonesia's planned capital city? It's still in the very early stages right now, but there should be enough information available in 1-2 years to do a video on it.
Can you give us an update? How does it look now?
Hi! It would be awesome to watch a video about Brasilia!
I love this one ua-cam.com/video/wxgcaM7yPgI/v-deo.html
2:51
The way you say "Nowicki" makes me laugh 😂
yep, that one cracked me up
FYI "C" makes a kinda "TS" sound in Polish and "W" is a "V" sound
The city aerial shot at 5:00 was looking really familiar to me, and then I recognized my hometown of Le Mans, France.
In Argentina there is a city called La Plata, it is the capital of the state of Buenos Aires (not the city). La Plata was designed to replace the city of Buenos Aires as the capital of the province of the same name since that city was federalized as a separate district to serve as the country's capital.
I would like you to make a video of La Plata, it is very curious
Love the idea of green parks running through all the sectors. If only more towns and cities would do this.
I'm from punjab, Chandigarh is our capital of the Punjab, believe me Chandigarh is the most amazing beautiful pure natural and greenest city of the india.. i love Chandigarh ❤❤❤
Another interesting Indian City to look at would be Navi Mumbai. It has much more zoning but also readily available cheap public transport. Commercial Spaces fall in between Industrial and Residential spaces so most shops are at a walking distance.
To travel roughly 3 miles, I had to pay 5 rupees~4 cents
Greetings from an architect who actually lives in Brasília. Great video! However I have a little correction: Brasília wasn't designed by Niemeyer. It was designed by Lucio Costa.
6:02 it's Chandigarh University ...... But the fact is that Chandigarh University is not situated in Chandigarh.... It's 12 to 14 km far from Chandigarh in tricity(Mohali)
Chandigarh University is situated in Chandigarh and has it's own sector, you can't put a University in the middle of a busy city.
Harinderjeet Singh Tiwana you are talking about the Panjab University which is located in sector 14. Chandigarh University is a different university which is privately run and is located outside of Mohali (a satellite town of Chandigarh). PU is a state run university which is right at the center of the city.
I use this channel to make cities in Minecraft :)
Try applying these principals in Townscaper then.
Cities skyline :)
8:58 when that virus kicks in. (Hope you're doing ok Dave!)
5:59 what is shown is not chandigarh city, it's a university campus (Chandigarh University) my classes are held at the floor this picture was taken
I've been to Chandigarh. It's objectively a bad city. Ugly, characterless concrete, and it takes *hours* to go anywhere not in a car.
Cringe.
M B, cringe, indeed. CB was far too generous.
Exactly like Brasilia.
I didn't want to make harsh judgements either way because I don't live there. I just tried to cover some of the more objective outcomes (wealthy, car-oriented).
I've been there too. The people are wonderful but the city honestly looks pretty plain and it's rather expensive as an Indian tourist. Still better than other Punjabi cities though
My dream is to one day build a city...
people keep crushing it.
get cities skylines
Would be cool to see this with Plan Directorio, His redesign for Buenos Aires, Argentina
and it's funny the distinction between architect vs urbanist you did when you talked about Corbusier because here in Brazil it's the same major "architecture and urbanism "
the word "Punjabi" is pronounced as "Pun (the English word)- jaab (like Saab car company) - E (the letter)"
Yeah, sorry about that. I tend to make at least one mispronunciation per video. No disrespect intended!
@@CityBeautiful yup. understandable
Man Brazil's capital BRASÍLIA would be great for a video like this
ua-cam.com/video/wxgcaM7yPgI/v-deo.html
"Man walks in a straight line because he has a goal and knows where he is going; he has made up his mind to reach some particular place and he goes straight to it.
The pack-donkey meanders along, mediates a little in his scatter-brain and distracted fashion, he zigzags in order to avoid larger stones, or to ease the climb, or to gain a little shade; he takes the line of least resistance."
quoted from the introduction to The City of Tomorrow.
Have you ever been on a shopping expedition with a woman?
I know including other Indian cities would have made video longer but maybe you can share your thoughts on Gandhinagar, Amravati etc.
I have visited Chandigarh and found it to be refreshingly orderly, far less chaotic than other Indian cities. Wide avenues with refined modern architecture giving a unified theme, quite unlike other cities. Le Corbusier"s Courthouse design is amazing and I found the city easy to get around. Also the city has the fantastic Rock Garden, a true wonder of the world. I could live here.....
Everytime I hear Le Corbusier two things happen.
Everyone Cringes and there’s a different way of pronouncing it.
It would be nice to hear in which way it's traditional!
You should do a video on the history of city planning/architecture in Detroit. There is so much history there. For instance, did you know the entire city was supposed to be made of hexagonal shapes? You can see the beginning of this in how Downtowns roads are laid even today. Look up detroitplanninghistory 1700-1900 for more info!
I am aware! The Detroit street plan is in the background in the first 8 seconds of the video when I mention the sponsor.
@@CityBeautiful maybe that's what made me bring it up subconsciously! Amazing videos as always.