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IN-PERSON Barcelona. Section A

Urban Futures-Cultural Pasts
Projecting Hybrid Sectors: Chandigarh
W. Truitt
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Abstract

The line from imperialism and conflict, modernity, to post-colonial uneven geography defines many global cities. The addition of the concept-object city to this line reveals fissures in culture and development that hinder the future city. In Chandigarh, two important but seldom documented Sectors 22 and 17, not designed by Corbusier but now frozen components of a modernist oeurve, are more flexible and have potential to contribute to the growth of the city. The concept city, a representation of the ideal and inflexible by design, creates conditions for, and depends on, large scale uneven urban development challenging the plan’s legitimacy. Rigidity of heritage, resisting flexibility of hybrid use and incremental growth, is misplaced here where questions of originality, authorship, and culture define the city that isn’t new or radical. Masked by innovative housing types, Drew and Fry designed a 1947 English Town Plan for Sector 22 as the first built experiment. Corbusier’s major contribution of road networks exacerbates outdated concepts of transportation. The green belts of each sector, however, support pedestrian and cycle pathways, encouraged as part of Chandigarh Smart City. In Sector 17, a repetitive module bay defines the pedestrian commercial and civic zone and should support a flexible urban environment. However, single use commercial space, hidden behind surface parking, separates commerce from the working city. This paper discusses the complex origins of the city and rarely discussed sectors, rapid urbanization of the periphery and corresponding disuse of the center, and future possibilities within the plan for an open city.

Biography

William Truitt is an architect and Associate Professor at the University of Houston College of Architecture and Design. His studios focus on the uneven geography of cities in South America, Southeast Asia, India, the Levant, and North Africa. He teaches a seminar on the relationship between Imperialism, Modernism, and the contemporary city. His work on urban landscapes has been exhibited in Houston, Los Angeles, and Melbourne. He has also planned public exhibits for traveling work on Hong Kong, Saigon, Phnom Penh, Luang Prabang, Yangon, Tel Aviv, Bangkok, and Casablanca.