PROBASHI- A Cultural News Magazine Volume 2 Issue 2

Probashi- City Making of New Delhi Delhi would have been far less exciting without the texture and character of the relics left behind by great builders. Lutyens’ plan is also remarkable for the generous green spaces, lawns, watercourses, flower and fruit bearing trees, and their integration with the parks developed around monuments. What emerged was one of the world’s outstanding garden cities’, not only on account of its refined emphasis on elegance and civic grace, but also because in practical terms its greening reduced temperatures during the hot, dusty summer months of northern India. Sir Herbert Baker, Edwin Lutyens and George S. C. Swinton ride along Raisina atop an elephant surveying for a suitable place to locate Imperial Delhi letter to his wife, for example, Lutyens described Indian architecture as “essentially the building style of children.” Even the Taj Mahal, he complained, was “small but very costly beer.” However thankfully the political prejudices did not overshadow the creative instincts of the architect

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