Author: Prabhash P. Singh
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9788170990598
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pamphlet on urban planning for the new delhi urban area in India - reviews urban development efforts and urban planning trends from the early 1900's to the present day. Bibliography pp. 49 to 55, maps and references.
Author: Pilar Maria Guerrieri
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-01-10
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0199091730
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on one of the largest megacities in the world—Delhi—this volume is a rare peek into the ineluctable process of hybridization between Indian and ‘other’ cultures within its local architecture and urban planning. The book explores a segment of the history of Delhi from 1912 through 1962, when the contemporary megacity was born, making a comparison between pre- and post-Independence, which is relatively neglected in academia. The author traces architectural and urban elements of the city of Delhi to understand how foreign developmental models were indigenized, the resistance encountered in the process, and finally their adaptation to local architectural contexts. Highlighting the complexities of ‘multiple Delhis’ with different or simultaneous cultural influences as well as with the various ways those influences have been interpreted or contextualized, the author offers a fresh insight into what is happening in Delhi’s globalized built environment nowadays. The book aims to unearth the social relations emerging from the constant flux in style of architecture and its related elements in an urbanized area.
Author: Ravi Sundaram
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-07-30
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1134130511
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is an illicit form of urban globalization. Poorer urban populations increasingly inhabit non-legal spheres: unauthorized neighborhoods, squatter camps and bypass legal technological infrastructures (media, electricity). This pirate culture produces a significant enabling resource for subaltern populations unable to enter the legal city. Equally, this is an unstable world, bringing subaltern populations into the harsh glare of permanent technological visibility, and attacks by urban elites, courts and visceral media industries. The book examines contemporary Delhi from some of these sites: the unmaking of the citys modernist planning design, new technological urban networks that bypass states and corporations, and the tragic experience of the road accident terrifyingly enhanced by technological culture. Pirate Modernity moves between past and present, along with debates in Asia, Africa and Latin America on urbanism, media culture, and everyday life. This pioneering book suggests cities have to be revisited afresh after proliferating media culture. Pirate Modernity boldly draws from urban and cultural theory to open a new agenda for a world after media urbanism.
Author: S. P. Agrawal
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9788170224297
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