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 In A.D 1638 shahjahan decided to shift his capital from agra to delhi and
founded the walled city of shahjahanabad on the right bank of river
yamuna,north of old ruins of firojabad.
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 Jhe Red Fort, Jama Masjid, main streets of Old Delhi (like
Chandni Chowk), long sections of walls and several city gates. Jhough a
busy commercial hub, this is still the vibrant heart of the city where old
lifestyles, traditional crafts and cuisines can still be appreciated.
 Jhe old city was surrounded by a wall enclosing
approximately 1500 acres, with several gates, comprising:

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remains, which got enclosed within the walls, incorporating
the tomb of Hazrat hah Jurkman Bayabani.
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‘ outh; leading to Feroz hah Kotla cricket
ground and what was then older habitation of Delhi.
  Jhe urban infrastructure was laid out in a geometrical pattern
with traces of both Persian and Hindu traditions of town
planning and architecture ,largely accounting for the formalism
and symmetry of the places ,gardens, and boulevards .

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 treests/Bazzars/Chowks 
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socially recognized are the professions
settled over there i.e. weavers, producers
of wool, traders of saddle ²horses, oil
extractors and manufacturer s of straw
goods, each of them represented by their
respective mosques.
In the direction of chandn chowk ,mostly
representatives of trading professions
were settled.
 Jhe city was planned to symbolize the
relationship between the supreme authority of the
emperor and the citizen. city·s growth was
originally guided by the fort as its neucleus ,a city
began to grow within the confine of a wall with
eight main gates. first came the main commercial
street in front of the fort running from east‘ west
,cultiminating in fatehpuri mosque .in 1960
shahjahan·s daughter ,jahanara ,built a chowk
with a large pool in its centre on this street called
chandni chowk .an arcade of shops was built in a
cresent along one side of the chowk with the
begum ka bagh and the begum ki sarai towards
the north .another main thorughfare was laid,
intersecting the chandni chowk at right angles
which runs towards south from the fort to delhi
gate of the city wall,both the streets were tree
lined avenues with canals running down the
centre.
 Jhe main commercial mosque of the walled
city,jama masjid was completed by 1656 atop
bhojla pahari,1000 yards south west of the fort.
 ome people also suggest that the city was planned according to
hindu principles of shilpashastra from vastushastra, Jhe site was
placed on a high land as in the shastras and was karmukha/bow
shaped. Jhe arm of the archer was i i$! .Jhe strings
was the river yamuna .Jhe junction of the two main axes is the
most auspicious point in the whole region and was the RED
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 Jhe  of shahjahanabad was based on fixing a few
interconnected local points and line and letting the city grow
about them. the fort ,jama masjid and the shopping arcades ,along
with begum ki sarai complex were the focal points in triangular
relationship and the wall with the two main thoroughfares were
the fixed lanes. Jhe concept was limited to buildings ,precinets
,and the maximum area(i.e moholla) levels, the only restrictions
being grew within these limits by a process of accretion. each of
these buildings complexes was designed to serve a discrete
function and each was interrelated with its neighbor.

alled city was diivided into separate quarters on the basis of
social and occupational groups ,such as the
baidwara,daiwara,naiwara,dhobiwara and maliwara for doctors ,
midwives ,barbers,washermen and gardeners respectively. there
were separate wings or kutras for each class of tradesman and the
various guilds of craftsmen., the rich merchants and the aristocrats
lived along the river with there large residences or havelis near
the fort, while the relatively under privileged were pushed
towards the outskirts .
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Fatehpuri Chowk, which lies at the far end of Chandni
Chowk road ‘ the most famous stretch of hahjahanabad
(arguably apart from the area around Jami Masjid).
Fatehpuri Chowk is actually the single name given to
two i
(road intersections) that are very close together.
Chandni Chowk road and Khari Baoli road are offset by a
few dozen feet, and the two intersections caused by this
offset are both covered by the name Fatehpuri Chowk.
Fatehpuri Masjid, which lies at the end of Chandni Chowk
road, is responsible for this offset, since the road needs to
skirt this mosque (which also gives the chowk its name).

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