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Jim Corbett National Park is the first national park of the country. It was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect the endangered Bengal tigers. It is located in Nainital district of Uttarakhand and was named after Jim Corbett, a naturalist.

Central Park is a world-famous public park, created in 1858 to address the recreational needs of the rapidly growing New York City. Its original purpose was to offer urban dwellers an experience of the countryside, a place to escape from the stresses of urban life and to commune with nature and fellow New Yorkers.

Suzlon one earth is 100% powered by onsite and offsite renewable sources. The campus has 18 hybrid wind turbines that fulfil 7% of the total energy consumption, the rest of energy demand is met from offsite wind turbines. The structure is designed in a way to ensure maximum daylight exposure thereby reducing artificial lighting consumption. The infrastructure within the campus is designed to enable water percolation and thereby control storm water runoff thus, contributing towards an increased water table level.

Town planning was the unique feature of the Indus valley civilisation. Harappan cities were planned with chessboard system or grid pattern. A grid pattern is a network of intersecting parallel lines. A grid pattern, means the streets intersect at right angles.

The aim of this book --designed for the general reader as well as for the architect and the student, is to show that buildings are not isolated objects existing arbitrarily in one or another of the recognizable set "styles", but rather the inevitable results of the ways of living, governing, worshiping etc.