[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Town Planning in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925) › c13.2 # Town Planning in Ancient India c13.2 Town Planning in Ancient India c13.2 - **Language:** English ### [c13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c13.2) Though construction of buildings does not come within the province of a town-planner and forms a separate subject by itself, yet civic and domestic engineering sciences are so correlated together that it is necessary that the town-planning authorities should exercise some control over the construction and arrangement of buildings in their bearings upon the proper lay-out of a city. Such co-operation between the civic and the domestic architects goes to maintain harmony and methodicity among the rows of houses in the same quarter and to preserve proper sanitation. A sense of the whole ward or city must dominate the individual building so as to bring out its organic entity. Hence there must be some co-ordination in the construction of the several structures; these are the constituents of an organic whole, the city. This cannot be left to the civic sense of the individual house-holder or the building engineer. A superior controlling agency to enforce the rules formulated and enacted for this purpose is sometimes a necessary and useful establishment. - [Previous: c12.s4.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.s4.11) - [Next: c13.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c13.3) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c13.2) · Pramāṇa