[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) › c13.6 # Town Planning in Ancient India c13.6 Town Planning in Ancient India c13.6 - **Language:** English ### [c13.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c13.6) This simple rule has a far deeper and wider connotation than what appears at first sight. It means that an unconscious growth of houses one beside another, leaving insufficient space for streets and other civic factors and upsetting the arrangement of castes and professions, does not make a good city. This rule lays stress upon systematic and comprehensive lay-out of a city—its walls, its streets and lanes, the distribution of sites and buildings in proper order. - [Previous: c13.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c13.5) - [Next: c13.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c13.7) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c13.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c13.6) · Pramāṇa