Category Archives: Cities

Chanakya’s Thoughts on Town and Country Planning in Contemporary World:Are They Relevant?

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Some interesting extracts relating to Town and Country planning in Arthashastra composed by Chanakya in the Maurya period is given below: Town, which is congested, should be freed of surplus population, which should then be housed in a new location. … Continue reading →

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Urbanism is the new way of life.

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Any city is a large and permanent settlement. There is no agreement on how any city is distinguished from a town, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on the law of the land. In the … Continue reading →

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First City,First Planned City and Origin of the Word ‘Town’

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

First City of the World- Ur    Archaeologists have discovered evidences of an early occupation at Ur during the Ubaid period. These early levels were sealed off with a sterile deposit of soil that was interpreted by excavators of the 1920s … Continue reading →

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Processes, Patterns, and Functions of Human Settlement for Students of Geography

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Any geography student person must understand the varying forms of human settlements in terms of their size, composition, location, arrangement, organization, function, and history. Nobody lives in isolation. Instead, people live in clusters ranging from small villages with hundreds of … Continue reading →

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