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Chandigarh, popularly known as the City Beautiful, is the best planned city in India. It is laid with its well planned sectors, roads and administration. It has administrative area in the north comprising the Secretariat, High Court and assembly is the Head, the educational centre in the North-West and Industrial area on the South-East are the limbs, the chief commercial and civic centre is the heart while the residential areas are analogous to the trunk of the organism. The network of roads and footpaths through which circulation of traffic and population takes place, are the circulatory system. The spacious parks, green belts and other open spaces may be thought of as lungs of the organism. Chandigarh is named after the local presiding delty-Chandl - the Goddess of power. The architecture of residential houses is amalgam of western and Indian designs. As the people prefer to sleep in the open during summer due to climatic conditions, open backyards have been provided in every house. The socio economic pattern of the region and the traditional background also restrict the height of the structures to three storeys. |



