The city is expected to grow to 500,000, but the first plan is for 150,000. The site is a magnificent agricultural plateau at the foot of the Himalayas. Here, for the first time, Le Corbusier's theory of the Seven Routes has been fully employed. These are V1: Express highways. V2: Civic avenues of monumental character. V3: Fast traffic roads from which entrances to buildings, sidewalks and pedestrians are excluded. V4: Shopping streets. V5: Distributor streets from shops to neighbourhoods. V6: Service streets to houses. V7: Footpaths and green ways.
In Chandigarh two V28 traverse the city. One contains commercial buildings until, in the west, it enters the Intellectual Core.
チャンディーガルには2本のV28が街を横断します。一方のV28は西部に商業ビルを置き、Intellectual Coreまで伸展します。
チャンディーガルでは、28もの道路が2種類に渡って町を覆っていた。そのうちのひとつは、西部で、Intellectual Coreの時代まで商業建物をも含んでいた。