Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v1.c53.13

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What about the centre and the central places? Let the town-hall—the temple of modern Democracy be central scene around which all the movements of the town revolve. Let a big banyan tree or a Peepal or Neem or a shed i. e. Maṇḍapa, the Sabhā—the assembly hall, be substituted for the town-hall in the village-planning for the emergence of new towns in India. Thus two more canons emerge—the folk-planning and the planning of the centre. But the question is that the modern life with such a vast socio-economic patterns like banks, insurance offices; municipal-boards, educational institutions, police outposts, and so many other public departments and establishments, can not be well attended to and accommodated unless some bifurcation of the entire town-plan is re-adjusted to provide the different buildings, for serving these institutions. For this, modern system of zoning should be incorporated in our town-planning canons. They must give good results. They are to some extent a modern edition of our ancient site-planning—housing a particular community or corporation, profession, or institution on a particular site.