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From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:52:28 +0530
MUMBAI: India and China fundamentally differ in their approach to
their cities with the former a victim of the Gandhian ideology that
militates against the "idea of the city", suggests London-based design
and urban expert Deyan Sudjic.
"China does not want to see its cities overwhelmed, and forbids free
internal movement. India's constitution guarantees it," Sudjic said in a
special issue published to coincide with the three-day Urban Age
conference that ended here Friday.
India, notes Sudjic, was to be rooted in the Gandhian "self-sufficiency
of village life" after independence.
Sudjic is director of the London-based Design Museum, and was earlier
design and architecture critic for The Observer, the Dean of the Faculty
of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University and co-chair of
the Urban Age Advisory Board. He founded the architectural monthly
Blueprint in 1983.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/Economy/India_suffers_from_Gandhian_antipathy_to_cities_British_expert/articleshow/2516088.cms