Environmental Issues And Urban Development Of The Walled Cities

The book contains Five Parts which are further divided into 27 chapters. It describes the urban and cultural merits of walled cities and advocates seriously about their adoption in planning new cities. The ancient historical cities-Babylone, Nineveh, Urs, Warsaw, Machipichu, Zimbabwe, Lahore, Peshwar, Tunisia, Isfahan, Sahajahanabad have exclusively been studies from socio-economic and cultural angles. Sahajahanabad is the luckiest city to survive among seven cities of Delhi, the other vanished being-Lalkot, Siri, Jahanpanah, Tuglakabad, Firozabad and Purana Qila. Chandni Chowk is the major Spine of Shahajahanabad which is world famous and so are the monuments ? Red Fort and Jama Masjid. Its Koochas, Katras, streets, bazars, Havelis have no synonimi throughout the world. The townscape studies reveal very interesting serial visions of its chowks, city wall street and the gates. About the mixed land uses prevalent there are ?bazars, residences (havelis) and industries. A case study of bazar Maliwara, Shahajahanabad has been taken up. The traffic chaos, particularly mixed, is haunting the entire walled cities, for which radical measures have been envisaged.