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Much-needed impetus to making Auroville a ‘city of the

future’

PREMIUM

Land consolidation for the city

area is being overseen in a

professional way

Published - November 15, 2024 04:32 am IST

ANU MAJUMDAR

‘Auroville is a vision-driven city’ | Photo Credit: Getty Images

Named after Sri Aurobindo and based on his vision for the

future, Auroville was created as a planned city for the

evolution of humanity. Towards this, the Mother, Sri

Aurobindo’s spiritual collaborator, invited the architect, Roger

Anger, in 1965, gave him a brief and worked with him for the

next three years until she approved the final plan known as

the Galaxy, in 1968. But, before that, in 1966, the architect

and his team made a presentation on Auroville and its city

plan at UNESCO, Paris, at Mother’s request. This reveals

Auroville as a city with a spiritual centre placed on a lake and

surrounded by gardens.

Their brief speaks of a city powered by solar energy,

optimising pedestrian flow instead of polluting cars, rainwater

harvesting, the use of natural air conditioning, and streets