Download or read book Journal written by Anthropological Society of Bombay and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islands written by Steven Roger Fischer and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lost’s Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe’s novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific island. And Jurassic Park kept its dinosaur population confined to an island off the coast of Central America. Islands often find themselves at the center of imagined worlds, secluded and sometimes mystical locales filled with strange creatures and savage populations. The cannibals, raptors, and smoke monsters that exist on the islands of popular culture aside, the more than one million islands and islets on the planet are indeed small , geological, biological, and cultural laboratories. From Britain to Japan, from the Galapagos to Manhattan, this book roams the planet to provide the first global introduction to these waterlocked landforms. Longtime island dweller Steven Roger Fischer shows that, since time began, islands have been one of the primary birthplaces for plants, animals, and proto-humans. These eyots of stone and sand—whether in ocean, lake, or river—fostered the human race, and Fischer recounts how humanity then exploited these remarkable habitats as stepping stones to global dominion. He explores island economics, warfare, and politics, and he examines the role they have played in literature, art and psychology. At the same time, he sparks our imagination with visions of islands—from Atlantis to Tahiti, Treasure Island to Hawaii. Ultimately, he reveals, these isolated mini-worlds are a measure of humankind itself. An engaging account of the islets that have enriched, lured, terrified, and inspired us, Islands shines new light on these cradles of earth—and human—history.
Download or read book The India Directory for the Guidance of Commanders of Steamers and Sailing Vessels written by James Horsburgh (F.R.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tower and Slab written by Florian Urban and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world. Few urban forms have roused as much controversy. While in the United States decades-long criticism caused the demolition of most mass housing projects for the poor, in the booming metropolises of Shanghai and Mumbai remarkably similar developments are being built for the wealthy middle class. While on the surface the modernist apartment block appears universal, it is in fact diverse in its significance and connotations as its many different cultural contexts. Florian Urban studies the history of mass housing in seven narratives: Chicago, Paris, Berlin, Brasilia, Mumbai, Moscow, and Shanghai. Investigating the complex interactions between city planning and social history, Tower and Slab shows how the modernist vision to house the masses in serial blocks succeeded in certain contexts and failed in others. Success and failure, in this respect, refers not only to the original goals – to solve the housing crisis and provide modern standards for the entire society – but equally to changing significance of the housing blocks within the respective societies and their perception by architects, politicians, and inhabitants. These differences show that design is not to blame for mass housing’s mixed record of success. The comparison of the apparently similar projects suggests that triumph or disaster does not depend on a single variable but rather on a complex formula that includes not only form, but also social composition, location within the city, effective maintenance, and a variety of cultural, social, and political factors.
Download or read book Sailing Directions for the West Coast of India written by United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic Center and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book West Coast of Hindustan Pilot written by Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making the Modern Slum written by Sheetal Chhabria and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and migrants from it. Town planners, financiers, and property developers joined forces to secure the city as a space for commerce and encoded shelter types as legitimate or illegitimate. By the early twentieth century, the slum emerged as a particularly useful category of stigmatization that would animate city-making projects in subsequent decades. Sheetal Chhabria locates the origins of Bombay’s now infamous “slum problem” in the broader histories of colonialism and capitalism. She not only challenges assumptions about colonial urbanization and cities in the global south, but also provides a new analytical approach to urban history. Making the Modern Slum shows how the wellbeing of the city–rather than of its people–became an increasingly urgent goal of government, positioning agrarian distress, famished migrants, and the laboring poor as threats to be contained or excluded.
Download or read book Indian Cities Ecological Perspectives written by V. K. Tewari and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Geography of India written by Kenneth Pletcher Senior Editor, Geography and History and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical, historical, and cultural geography of India, from its major physical features, world heritage sites, and cities, to sites in the union territories and Kashmir region.
Download or read book Sailing Directions for the West Coast of India written by United States. Naval Oceanographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The West India Pilot written by Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Development and New Towns in the Third World written by Alain R.A. Jacquemin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume examines India and Bombay, countries which represent some of the world’s most dramatic examples of rapid urban growth. One of the strategies frequently adopted by the Indian authorities to cope with this urban growth is the development of new towns, such as New Bombay, which is India’s largest and most significant urban planning experience since Independence. The New Bombay model, based on a specific planning and financing strategy, is considered highly successful and so is increasingly being copied and implemented in other urban areas of India. This volume makes the first independent evaluation of New Bombay and sets it in a wider Third World urban development context. As well as analysing the processes of physical and economic growth, the volume also examines the process of social development and, in particular, the consequences of this planning concept for the urban poor.
Download or read book Sailing Directions enroute for India and the Bay of Bengal written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East 1919 1939 written by Andrew Field and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand why British naval policy in the Far East was so unsuccessful when the Japanese entered World War II, the author takes the reader back to the end of World War I and examines the roots of British naval strategy.
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
