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Common Features
- Indigenous and Independent
- Concentration on utility factor over artistic factor
Sites
- Harappa
- Mohenjodaro
- Ropar
- Kalibangan
- Lothal
- Rangpur
Town Planning
- Unity in diversity is the theme
- Cities divided into (not all)
- Citadels - for ruling class
- Lower Town - for common people
- Variations of town planning in different sites due to geography
- Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Kalibanga - citadel fortified
- Mohenjodaro - burnt bricks
- kalibangan - mud bricks
- Kotdiji & Amri - no fortification
- Lothal - no division of city
- Grid pattern - streets cut at right angle
- Sanitation measures - houses connected t main drainage through small drains and drains covered by loose slabs to allow cleaning
Housing Pattern
- Baked Clay Bricks
- Fixed-size
- Use of stone and wood
- Included toilets, upper-stories, courtyard and well
Imp. Architectural Structures
- Great Bath - Mohenjadaro
- stairs, changing rooms, waterproofing
- Granaries - Mohe & Harappa
- air ducts, platform, in citadel
- Dockyard - Lothal
- lock-gate system for stable water level