1. MADURAI
THE CITY OF TEMPLES
SUBMITTED BY:
DEEPTHA SUDHAKARAN (010)
SONALI SINGH (039)
SOORAJ ARORA (040)
SURBHI AGGARWAL (044)
2. INTRODUCTION
• MADURAI , popularly known as the Temple city, also called as
ATHENS OF THE EAST, City of Junction, City of Jasmine, CITY THAT
NEVER SLEEPS and City of four junctions. Madurai is the third major
economic, industrial, commercial, political center and a major
transportation hub for the southern Tamil Nadu. The city is
renowned for tourism, festivals and vibrant cultural life in general
and is considered to be the states cultural capital.
• The rich and vibrant natural and cultural landscape with different
linguistic and cultural groups coexisting together in its UNIQUE
CUSTOMS, TRADITIONS, AND ART FORMS make it a classical
example of an urban environment.
LOCATION
Madurai is located in
south-eastern India, on
the banks of river Vaigai.
It is one of the 30 districts
in Tamil Nadu. The city
serves as the district
headquarters of the state.
The geographical location
of Madurai is 9.91 N 78.1
E. It is located at an
altitude of 100.58 meters
above sea-level.
3. The old city of Madurai is considered to be designed according to Vastu and has the fivefold concentric rectangular
formation. The city was a well planned hybrid of Prastara and Chaturmukha type of plan is applicable.
CITY PLANNING
In Chaturmukha planning, the
site may be either square or
rectangular having four faces.
The town is laid out with four
main streets. The temple of
the presiding deity will be
always at the center.
The characteristic feature of
Prastara is that the site may be
square or rectangular but not
triangular or circular. The sites are
set apart for the poor, the middle
class, the rich and the very rich and
the sizes vary.
CHATURMUKHA
PLANNING PRASTARA PLANNING
• The city was built around the temple
complex as the focal point with a
combination of a concentric street
pattern viz., Chithirai Streets, Avani
Moola Streets and Masi Streets.
• Hierarchy of street pattern was
adopted with the width of the Streets
decreasing as they branched out,
ending in stone paved streets - the
width being 0.60 m.
• The city was enclosed within the fort
walls and surrounded by a moat. The
fort walls have been razed down and
the moat filled up to form the present
day Veli Streets.
5. TEMPLE COMPLEX
ROYAL PALACE
BRAHMANS
JEWELLERS
TRADERS
SETTLEMENT PATTERNS
VAISHYAS
PARSIS
KSHATRIAS
SHUDRAS
1. Urban and regional land use planning
decisions should base itself on ecological
infrastructure conservation plan and should
define the density of development based
on the provision and availability of
infrastructure.
2. A robust and implementable solid waste
management plan.
3. Adequate and effective waste water
management plan.
4. A workable and realistic informal
settlements rehabilitation plan.
5. Involvement of social and
community collective in making
urban governance decisions,
implementation and enforcement.
6.Urgent need to address
the serious Information gaps
and instill sustainable imagination
for spatial development.
7. Putting an immediate end to the practice
of reclaiming water bodies.
6. 6TH CENTURY BC- PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENTS
CAPITAL OF PANDYAN KINGDOM
CITY PLANNED AROUND THE TEMPLES
4 MAIN STREETS
9TH CENTURY BC- SETTLEMENT BETWEEN 2
BRANCHES OF VAIGAI FORTIFIED
1372- CAPTURED BY VIJAYNAGAR KING
1559- NAYAK DYNASTY
1801-1947 BRITISH RULE
1937- DEMOLITION OF FORT WALL
1875- RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT
SETTLEMENT AROUND TEMPLES
CORE REMAINED COMPACT
TRADITIONAL HOUSES
VACANT PLOTS USED FOR TEMPLES
HUGE URBAN GROWTH AFTER
INDEPENDENCE
GROWTH OF SETTLEMENTS
9. IN MADURAI, THE ACTION
PLANNING PROCESS
CONCENTRATED TO DEVELOP A
DEEPER AND GROUNDED
UNDERSTANDING OF THE
GEOGRAPHY OF WATER FLOWS
AND ITS IMPACT ON THE
CITY’S FUTURE GROWTH AND
COMMUNITIES. USING A
CONCEPTUAL LANGUAGE OF
BLUE-GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE ,
THE PROCESS EXAMINED THE
STATUS AND TRANSFORMATION
OF THE INTRICATELY
NETWORKED WATER SYSTEM IN
MADURAI (WATER TANKS, RIVERS
AND CHANNELS, CANALS
GROUND WATER) THAT FORMS
THE FUNDAMENTAL
ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
OF THE URBAN LIFE.
WATER SYSTEM
