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+  From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:27:40 +0530
| smart cookie, this Le Corbusier, no signed
| masterplan == no masterplan fanatics on your tail,
| ever. has anyone a citation for Le Corbusier on
| the master plan and Planning in general?
| ("i will give you a nice baroque fountain, and behind
| that, i will put a city for three million inhabitants")
| the interview is in the 1957 movie.

Where's city's master plan?
Khushwant Singh

CHANDIGARH: Authenticity of the city's master plan is in doubt as the one with architect Le Corbusier's signature and approval is not traceable.

Chandigarh does not have a single signed master plan in its archives. Either Corbusier did not post back the two copies sent to him at his Paris address in 1952 for his signatures, or his signed copy is untraceable.

SK Sandhu, finance secretary-cum secretary urban planning, Chandigarh administration, told TOI he could not comment as the matter pertained to the time much before his tenure.

cont'd....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2171232.cms


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