Town Planning in Ancient India c3.28

c3.28

Purposes of streets and rules of their lay-out—Importance of light and air in street-planning—Adjustment of the width of streets to the volume of traffic—Different kinds of streets and their widths—Chess-board system of street-planning—Classification and desingnation of cities according to the number and direction of the streets in them—The names of different towns and the lay-out of streets—The doors and arches of roads and their architecture—Classification and denomination of cities according to street-planning and site-planning—Types of such towns—Names and nature of the streets—Mahākāla, or Vāmana-patha—The Brahmavīthi—Central streets and military and commercial routes—Diagonal radiating streets—Their partial advocacy and adoption in the Nandyāvarta town-plan—Foot-paths—Street-crossings; their special edification and their civic importance—“Pradakshiṇa” of the crossings and their significance in traffic regulation—Pictorial and arboreal ornamentation of the streets and its aesthetic and cultural importance—Buildings and their facades—Tortoise-like elevation of the streets—The drainage system—Walls ranging along the streets . . . . . Page 109