Vastu City Planning

This book contains the most important information that exists in the field of city planning. It shows us how to build sustainable cities that create a coherent and harmonious influence on their citizens, resulting in reduced crime and greater success, health, wealth, and happiness. It introduces Vastu planning, the world's most ancient and powerful system of city planning, which is based in Natural Law, and has been revived in this generation by the world-renowned sage Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.FOURTH EDITION-2013

This book contains the most important information that exists in the field of architecture and urban planning. It introduces Vastu building, the world's most ancient and powerful system of construction, which is based on Natural Law. It shows how to build ideal homes, villages and cities that create a coherent and harmonious influence on their citizens, resulting in reduced problems and greater success, health, prosperity, and happiness.

PLEA is a network of individuals sharing expertise in the arts, sciences, planning and design of the built environment. It serves as an international, interdisciplinary forum to promote discourse on environmental quality in architecture and planning. This 17th PLEA international conference addresses sustainable design with respect to architecture, city and environment at the turn of the millennium. The central aim of the conference is to explore the interrelationships and integration of architecture, city and environment. The Proceedings will be of interest to all those involved in bioclimatic design and the application of natural and innovative techniques to architecture and planning. The conference is organised by the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Programme for Industry, University of Cambridge.

This book describes the measurement system used in Maharishi Sthapatya Veda in terms of Group theory. The Vastu measurement system is based on the square and its eight levels of symmetry. Using the concepts of modern Group theory, deep principles at the basis of the measurement system are illustrated in a new light and explain the original significance of the Vedic measurement system. Measurement based on Vedic dimensions is an essential part of Vedic City Plannnig since all architecture requires precise dimensions. Principles of Vastu Planning explains the origin of this Vedic measurement system. The second part of the book explains country planning according to natural law in a way which is most practical and beneficial for its people as introduced by world-renowed sage Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Country planning in accordance with natural law outlines the concept of a global grid based on latitudes and longitudes which is the basis of Vastu planning at every scale; housing, village, town, province and whole country. The smallest scale of planning eventually comes down to a square the size of a house where the convergence of longitudes can be ignored. This significance of the square is explained in the first part of the book.

ABOUT THE BOOK:Vastu Sastra, an important limb of Jyotisa or astrology, is an ancient science and study of architecture and engineering. The present volume is an outcome of a symposium on Vastu. One of the goals of the symposium was to revive the lost

With case studies in each chapter focusing on specific cities, and including maps and photographs, this book is a comprehensive survey of urbanization in South Asia during the last 5000 years.

The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications. The religious influence on the urban experience has resonances for all aspects of urban sustainability in India and yet it remains a blind spot while articulating sustainable urban policy. This book explores the historical and on-going influence of religion on urban planning, design, space utilisation, urban identities and communities. It argues that the conceptual and empirical approaches to planning sustainable cities in India need to be developed out of analytical concepts that define local sense of place and identity. Examining how Hindu religious heritage, beliefs and religiously influenced planning practices have impacted on sustainable urbanisation development in Jaipur and Indian cities in general, the book identifies the challenges and opportunities that ritualistic and belief resources pose for sustainability. It focuses on three key aspects: spatial segregation and ghettoisation; gender-inclusive urban development; and the nexus between religion, nature and urban development. This cutting-edge book is one of the first case studies linking Hindu religion, heritage, urban development, women and the environment in a way that responds to the realities of Indian cities. It opens up discussion on the nexus of religion and development, drawing out insightful policy implications for the sustainable urban planning of many cities in India and elsewhere in South Asia and the developing world.