I've only ever been in one other purpose-built city, and I have to say, it was equally as odd. Or rather, Chandigarh seemed to me to be as equally as odd as the first purpose-built city, Canberra. Originally designed by two American architects, and finished (after one of the original architects died in a plane crash) by a Swiss architect, the city has wide open roads, lined, no less, by trees, situated on a grid which intersects at roundabout after roundabout. The separate areas of the city are labeled as "sectors", numbered in a logical and coherent order, with corresponding road signs. We even found a supermarket! It's not an India Jason or I were (or are, for that matter) familiar with, and it was ever so slightly unnerving. Even the people in Chandigarh don't behave
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