Word: chandigarh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry to provide jobs for everybody-thus preventing it from becoming a mere bedroom for an existing city. A new town can be a satellite city, close to an already developed metropolitan area, or a wholly new urban center erected on virgin land in much the same way that Chandigarh, Canberra and Brasilia were built. For social and economic as well as political reasons, U.S. planners say that the towns should provide a population mix of wealthy, middle class and poor, of black and white and of commuters and resident workers...
Died. Tara Singh, 82, crusty champion of religious and political rights for India's 8,000,000 Sikhs; of a heart attack; in Chandigarh, India. Militant leader of the fiercely proud Sikhs since the early 1930s, Singh stirred up many a political fracas, was jailed by both the British and Nehru as he fought and fasted for the creation of a separate Punjabi-speaking state. The partition of the Punjab state in 1966 failed to satisfy the white-bearded leader who then went to jail for the last time still clamoring for independence...
What bothered the Sikhs now was that she also divided the capital city of Chandigarh and its Le Corbusier-designed secretariat building. Sant Fateh wanted the whole place. And this time, the lady was unbending. It seemed as if the Sikh leaders would have no choice but to make good their threats to put themselves to the torch...
Nehru's daughter was more sympathetic. Last March, when she approved the Sikh request, the issue provoked bloody riots by Hindus in Punjab. Last week all was peaceful. Under the solution, Hindus and Sikhs alike were given a separate part of Punjab, and will share the city of Chandigarh as a joint capital. An imaginary vertical line runs through the Corbusier-designed secretariat building so that both sides...
...Eero Saarinen, finally gave the nod to Helsinki's Viljo Revell, and for good reason. Architecture was then struggling free from the glass and steel web of anonymous buildings popularized by Mies van der Rohe. With the inspiration of Le Corbusier's massive concrete government buildings in Chandigarh and Niemeyer's skyward-lofting Brasilia, architects at last felt free to conceive of civic structures as needing neither to be placed under a dome or strait-laced into an office-building suit. Revell's entry came closest to what the judges were hoping for-a civic grouping...