27 Things We Learnt From Planning of Gandhinagar.

27 Things We Learnt From Planning of Gandhinagar.

Ananya Shrimali 1180100724 Jay Agarwal 1180100740 Nimit Bhansali 1180100763

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Gandhinagar- Tree Capital of India

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Gandhinagar is the capital city of Gujarat. It is also the administrative capital of the state.

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The latest figures of a census conducted by the state government show that 53.9% of its 5,700-hectare area is covered with trees.

Effectively, there are 416 trees for every 100 people in the city.

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It was organized in 1964. It is a planned city situated on Ahmedabad - Vadodara highway.

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Area: 649 sq.km.

Population: 13,34,551 Density: 660 inhabitants per sq.km.

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Gandhinagar is acting as a hub of educational institutes like Dhirubhai ambani college, NIFT, Indian plasma research institute, ICD etc.

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It is aiming to become infocity of the region.

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PRIVILEGE DUE TO LOCATION ●

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Gandhinagar district is bounded by the districts of Sabarkantha and Aravalli to the northeast, Kheda to the southeast, Ahmedabad to the southwest, and Mehsana to the northwest.

It is majorly dependent for its needs due to the close proximity to the financial capital of gujarat.

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CITIES ALWAYS GROW IN HARMONY OPPORTUNITIES COME FROM OVERLAP

All the major cities will either grow in couplets and triplets: Mumbai - Navi Mumbai Vijayawada - Amaravathi - Guntur Chandigarh - Panchkula - Mohali Ahmedabad - Gandhinagar Mumbai - Pune Surat - Navsari Hyderabad - Secunderabad Kolkata - Howrah Guwahati - Dispur Raipur - Bhilai - Durg

We have observed that the whole idea of development is dependent upon viability of growth and resource optimization. Sometimes cities need to have a certain purpose in order to be fully efficient.

In case of Gandhinagar, it is acting as administrative capital and Ahmedabad is known as industrial capital.

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GEOMETRY OF CITY

Sectoral Arrangement ● ● ●

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The city of gandhinagar has 30 sectors.

Size of each sector: 1km x .75km Each sector has a primary school, secondary school, senior secondary school, A medical dispensary, shopping centre and a maintenance office.

Plan of Gandhinagar is achieved using the neighbourhood concept.

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GEOMETRY OF CITY

Street Nomenclature ● ● ● ●

Streets are numbered ( Eg. Road no. 1, Road no. 2 to Road no. 7) Cross streets numbered letters from Gujarati alphabet ( Eg. k, kha, g, gh, ch, chh) All streets are aligned at 30 deg. NW and 60 deg. NE. to avoid direct glare of morning and evening sun while driving.

The gujarat assembly building is in the centre of the city to make it accessible to all the people.

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ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY, THEY KNOW BEST WHAT THEY NEED.

Cities are homes to complex webs of systems, sectors, actors, and neighbourhoods, each with their own primary agenda that ties into how the city operates. The success of a city doesn't come from any one of these factors, but from the strength and dynamism of the overlaps.

With this in mind, collaboration is critical to identify innovative solutions. Be it between the private and public sectors, businesses and NGOs, collaboration drives urban solutions.

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CONNECTIVITY The scope of city planning consists of principally in fixing the baselines of all traffic movements and transit facilities, including streets, railroads and canals. These transit facilities have to be treated liberally and systematically.

Current Urban Landscape of Gandhinagar

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Open Spaces on the Sectoral Level / City level “Open space is important for getting in touch with yourself and with nature and for quiet exercise and the appreciation of beauty.”

“The value of [open space] is huge. Protecting and increasing natural areas increases home values, keeps people living here, and raises the quality of life.”

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Green Space ( this includes parks, cemeteries, community gardens and recreational areas.)

Schoolyards Playgrounds Productive landscape Public plazas Vacant plots.

Proposed Productive Landscape In The City

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The Central Spine Of City The central spine connects the city with major junctions and important nodes of the city ● ● ● ● ● ●

Administrative or governmental offices Recreational plazas Commercial zones Residential Institutional The secondary division connects the sectors to central spine.

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The Symbolic Buildings Of City 1.

Vidhan Sabha or Sachivalaya located in the capital complex of Gandhinagar sector 10.

2. Mahatma Mandir is developed in the Central Vista of Gandhinagar

Akshardham

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The Formal open spaces Of City 1.

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Akshardham Swarnim Park

Urban scenarios illustrating resultant built form for the urban expansion area

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Land use planning The objective of Gandhinagar Development Plan for 2011 was to transform it from an administrative center into a thriving and economically vibrant community able to accommodate the demands of a rapidly urbanizing economy. This plan marked a departure from the state-led master planning and development based on eminent domain, and adopted a land readjustment mechanism for urban expansion. It applied a place-based approach to preserve the formal character of the capital city, while at the same time transform the quality of its built environment

EGALITARIAN DIVISION

OF LAND USE

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The Pedestrian And Green Routes In The City

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Future Expansion in mind while planning East Gandhinagar can be structured broadly by the extension of the urban grid of Gandhinagar across the River. This principally formed the basis for the network of DP roads proposed in the I5 - Institutional zone.

Scope Of Future Expansion In City

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With the clear objective of creating integrated urban campuses, the sectors formed by the grid of DP roads will have centrally- located important institutions.

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For potential future growth, the grid can be extended eastward and northward for east gandhinagar expansion, using the principles embedded in the master plan.

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Two sectors along major DP roads (60m wide) have been selected to demonstrate the block formation

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Deeper plots are placed along major DP roads (60m wide) to facilitate a wider variety of land uses such as institutions, mixed - us, commercial. Some of these deeper plots shall be appropriated for sale by authority.

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Sector is divided into two sub- blocks with a 30m wide road for primary vehicular access. Each sub- block then has a 24m wide centrally placed green way which connects across a lateral grid of 18m and 12m wide roads.

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The resultant urban block s sizes are 90x120m (average). These are appropriately sized to create walkable neighbourhoods and allow for a variety of building typologies.

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Hierarchy of open spaces and dwelling units

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Sectoral arrangement leading towards equitable society.

The plots of varied sizes and shapes are arranged in such a manner that each and every individual enjoys an equal amount of access to public facilities and landscape features of the city.

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Sectoral planning techniques With the strategies adopted for plot types, sizes, land use, FSI, etc. the potential built form and typologies. These have been envisaged with reference to prevalent regulations for margin, open spaces and street character.

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PLACE MATTERS Humanitarians are conditioned to think about people, urban planners are conditioned to think about the how the place affects people. This is because, in cities, physical locations are often tied to risk, vulnerability, social tension/cohesion, or economic opportunity, among others.

Observations that were lacking in the Gandhinagar city planning.

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TRY ADDING A FLAIR OF EXCLUSIVE INCLUSIVITY Humanitarians are conditioned to think about people, urban planners are conditioned to think about the how the place affects people. This is because, in cities, physical locations are often tied to risk, vulnerability, social tension/cohesion, or economic opportunity, among others.

The best and the worst part of Gandhinagar is its exclusive microblocks.

They allow a family or a small community to live well but due to its size and low density reduces the possibility of neighbourhood.

Observations that were lacking in the Gandhinagar city planning.

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“THE CITY IS A LIVING THING, PULSING WITH VITAL FORCES, GROWTH RELENTLESSLY ALONG NATURAL PATHS” Consider the city of today, a city where the dynamics of life are put into acceleration simultaneously with the peaceful breaks of a peaceful summer evening. It is the stage upon which the drama of the collective ‘human condition’ plays out, fruitfully and lavishly each actor fulfills his parts, would it not be a shame is the stage instead of nurturing the individual curbs his choice of acting.

Observations that were lacking in the Gandhinagar city planning.

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ANANYA SHRIMALI

JAY AGARWAL

NIMIT BHANSALI