Rourkela
,
India
, Asia
Year
1955
latitude: 22° 14'
longitude: 84° 51'
Period
Initiator(s)
Planning organization
Nationality initiator(s)
Designer(s) / Architect(s)
Konrad Steiler
O.M. Ungers
Werner Baecker
Design organization
Head: Konrad Steiler Project architect: Initially O.M. Ungers, but soon replaced by Werner Baecker
Inhabitants
484,292 (2001)
Target population
100,000
Town website
http://www.rourkela.com
Town related links
Literature
- 'New Towns in India', Ved Prakash, Detroit 1969
type of New Town:
> scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
> client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
> policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
Steel Town
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