Chandigarh , experts termed it City Beautiful  in early 70's. some also termed it  " Nice sanitorium" But today it is a" Urban Chaos" by not understanding needs of it's habitants as everyone cries hard in the name of Le Corbusier Many do not understand that city is a growing organism whether planned or unplanned.

Le corbusier defined a 16 km green belt around city which consisted of phase 1 and phase 2 with total 47 sectors in Master plan. City's green belt has been reduced to nil with new towns like Mohali, Panchkula and latest is New Chandigarh in continuation of city grid .Chandigarh has downward gradient from North east to South west direction. Since city's character was in keeping Horizontal sky line , building heights in N-E were kept 2 and half stories and in S-W side it goes up to 5 stories. Also 14 storeys high secretariat and 11 storey tower in middle of sector 17 were part of corbusian thinking.  Fringes of city are still open for high rise development and they should develop as tese would not hamper any city character loss and will solve some increased population problem. Open spaces kept in sectors were also promised to be used for any demand to be met in master plan ,besides these open spaces are not self sustaining and burden on tax payers. 

City's lungs that is leisure valley can be kept in  its original condition and not disturbed.

Real culprit for city is increased ownership of vehicles which not only congesting streets and parking on community land but are also contributing hugely for increased carbon contents. No more it is enjoyable to walk or drive on city's streets.

Doing nothing in terms of urban solution will make city die soon than expected in master plan