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A large number of Indian cities have a complex morphological characteristics due to their historical evolution. Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Settlements

The Indian city is a palimpsest — successive urban orders were superimposed without erasing their predecessors, so incompatible street plans, plot patterns and building fabrics survive side by side inside one municipal boundary. The complexity is layered inheritance with a specifiable mechanism.

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  • The mechanism: why superimposition does not erase
  • The layers, read as form contrasts
  • The juxtaposition is the complexity
  • The dual-city thesis and its challenge
  • Complexity as inheritance and as constraint

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