Origins of the Urban Development of Pondicherry according to Seventeenth Century Dutch Plans

• Autore principale: Jean Deloche (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Institut Français de Pondichéry 2004
• Soggetti: Biography & True Stories; urbanism; city; history; cartography; Dutch
• Accesso online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The modem plan of Pondicherry shows a large town in gridiron plan which obviously was extended to its present form through controlled urban development. Some Indian scholars consider that the town was built according to the principles of the ancient Hindu treatises of architecture, particularly the...