Town Planning skills of Ancient Indians

This blog is an article on the marvelous town planning skills of the ancient Indus Valley Cities of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. The most amazing aspect of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa is the town planning. Some key features of the town are as follows: The streets which divided the city into neat rectangular or square blocks, varied in width but always intersected each other at right angles. The city had an elaborate drainage system consisting of horizontal and vertical drains, street drains and so on.The architecture of the buildings was clearly intended to be functional and minimalist, and certainly not to please the aesthete. Due to its elaborate town plan, Mohenjo-daro was considered a cosmopolitan city, the capital of the civilization with people of different races mingling with the local populace. Indus Valley Civilization used mudbrick extensively, as can be seen in the ruins of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. In the Indus Valley Civilization particularly, all bricks corresponded to sizes i...