Urban Policy Changes in Chandigarh: Fallibilism or Fatalism

Abstract

Since last two decades, some of the major urban policy, legislation and building regulation changes have been made in Chandigarh, which are having a major impact on the physical and the visual fabric of the city. This paper, which is a pre formative guideline for author’s further research is an attempt to understand these policies and urban regulation changes and how are these going to affect the future growth of the city? Some of the regulations may be required to keep the pace with time while others have been made as part of public demand or few of them may just be for speculative purposes but all of these are going to have some affect on the city character. This paper highlights some of the major changes in the original master plan of the city which could have some irreversible impact that could take a long time to restore the concept. It is an initial exploration by author in the field of city regulations. A change in land use or in building regulations is an attempt to make the city lively and growth oriented for citizens, but are these changes really helping or not is another important aspect to be understood.