Download or read book The Making of an Indian Metropolis written by Prashant Kidambi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis. Drawing together strands that hitherto have been treated in a piecemeal fashion and based on a variety of archival sources, the book offers a systematic analytical account of historical change in a premier colonial city. In particular, it considers the ways in which the turbulent changes unleashed by European modernity were negotiated, appropriated or resisted by the colonised in one of the major cities of the Indian Ocean region. A series of crises in the 1890s triggered far-reaching changes in the relationship between state and society in Bombay. The city’s colonial rulers responded to the upheavals of this decade by adopting a more interventionist approach to urban governance. The book shows how these new strategies and mechanisms of rule ensnared colonial authorities in contradictions that they were unable to resolve easily and rendered their relationship with local society increasingly fractious. The study also explores important developments within an emergent Indian civil society. It charts the density and diversity of the city’s expanding associational culture and shows how educated Indians embraced a new ethic of ’social service’ that sought to ’improve’ and ’uplift’ the urban poor. In conclusion, the book reflects on the historical legacy of these developments for urban society and politics in postcolonial Bombay. This wide-ranging work will be essential reading for specialists in British imperial history, postcolonial studies and urban social history. It will also be of interest to all those concerned with the comparative history of governance and public culture in the modern city.
Download or read book The Indian Metropolis written by Norma Evenson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Metropolis written by Vasant K. Bawa and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the turn of the century we are told by the experts, there will be several cities in developing countries whose population will exceed ten million. The largest cities in the world in future are likely to be Mexico City, Bombay and Calcutta, not London, Paris, New York or Tokyo. Several cities in developing countries have a population exceeding two million already and are expected to reach five million in a few years time. In India, the breakdown of city services like transporatation and water supply has become a cause of widespread concern. Rights of pavement dwellers have been taken up to the Supreme Court of India. Their eviction has been halted, after a fast by the actress Shabana Azmi in mid-1986. Why is there a breakdown of city services? Can the pressure on cities be reduced by diverting development to other parts of the country? Such questions can best be answered by someone with direct experience of city management.
Download or read book The Declining City core of an Indian Metropolis written by K. Sita and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indian Metropolis Deconstructing India s Urban Spaces written by Feroze Varun Gandhi and published by Rupa Publ iCat Ions India. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental work that shows how economic vitality can go hand-in-hand with creating vibrant cities offering a haven for cultural and intellectual expression. For most urban Indians, the past few years have been unsettling-we have seen neighbourhoods locked down for months during a pandemic, increasing the daily challenges of earning a living as well as of access to good healthcare and education. Inflation has ravaged the land with spiralling prices of food, rent and transport. Our cities are hard to live in; lacking basic amenities, while being unaesthetic and discordant with our civilization. As economic growth takes priority, questions about liveability and meaningful employment arise, along with concerns about the deteriorating law and order. In blindly and poorly aping Western models, our cities homogenize, losing their character, their identity and their soul. Meanwhile, climate change is no longer a mythical or distant possibility but a distinct and immediate reality. A typical city must now cope with extreme temperatures, both flooding and water shortages and abysmal air quality. These can no longer be treated as threats but as certainties to be planned for. The Indian Metropolis seeks to begin a national conversation on these issues and suggests ways to turn our cities into enabling, energizing environments geared towards enhancing the daily life of the average city dweller.
Download or read book Indian Metropolis written by James B. LaGrand and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than an outgrowth of public policy implemented by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the exodus of American Indians from reservations to cities was linked to broader patterns of social and political change after World War II. Indian Metropolis places the Indian people within the context of many of the twentieth century's major themes, including rural to urban migration, the expansion of the wage labor economy, increased participation in and acceptance of political radicalism, and growing interest in ethnic nationalism."--Jacket.
Download or read book The City written by Andrew Lees and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome stand out both politically and culturally. With the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, European cities entered into a long period of waning and deterioration. But elsewhere, great cities-among them, Constantinople, Baghdad, Chang'an, and Tenochtitlán-thrived. In the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, urban growth resumed in Europe, giving rise to cities like Florence, Paris, and London. This urban growth also accelerated in parts of the world that came under European control, such as Philadelphia in the nascent United States. As the Industrial Revolution swept through in the nineteenth century, cities grew rapidly. Their expansion resulted in a slew of social problems and political disruptions, but it was accompanied by impressive measures designed to improve urban life. Meanwhile, colonial cities bore the imprint of European imperialism. Finally, the book turns to the years since 1914, guided by a few themes: the impact of war and revolution; urban reconstruction after 1945; migration out of many cities in the United States into growing suburbs; and the explosive growth of "megacities" in the developing world.
Download or read book The Structure of an Indian Metropolis written by V. L. S. Prakasa Rao and published by New Delhi : Allied. This book was released on 1979 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bombay Before Mumbai written by Prashant Kidambi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'City of Gold', 'Urbs Prima in Indis', 'Maximum City': no Indian metropolis has captivated the public imagination quite like Mumbai. The past decade has seen an explosion of historical writing on the city that was once Bombay. This book, featuring new essays by its finest historians, presents a rich sample of Bombay's palimpsestic pasts. It considers the making of urban communities and spaces, the workings of power and the nationalist makeover of the colonial city. In addressing these themes, the contributors to this volume engage critically with the scholarship of a distinguished historian of this frenetic metropolis. For over five decades, Jim Masselos has brought to life with skill and empathy Bombay's hidden histories. His books and essays have traversed an extraordinarily diverse range of subjects, from the actions of the city's elites to the struggles of its most humble denizens. His pioneering research has opened up new perspectives and inspired those who have followed in his wake. Bombay Before Mumbai is a fitting tribute to Masselos' enduring contribution to South Asian urban history
Download or read book The Making of a Metropolis written by Ashok Kumar Jain and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delhi, the National Capital of India, is a nerve center for town planning ideas and activities. The successes and failures of its urban development implications. However, before assessing the end results, it is necessary to understand the complexity of urban development, which is an amalgam of political, historical, social and economic forces. Delhi provides an excellent case study in this respect. Delhi stands at a point in history where it can either take the road to a mean and squalid future, or, it, imaginatively handled to the status of a great metropolis. Highlighting the sense of impending crisis, it provides a tour de force of historical Delhis. Starting with the national scenarios and urban policy, the book, traces the historical and political evolution of Delhi, recreating the nostalgia when it used to be the most graceful and glorious city of the Orient. The issues of concern stretch over a wide spectrum: from policy planning to case studies. The papers cover the aspects of vital importance: upgradation of the core city, environmental and ecological conservation, informal settlements and housing. The subject of housing policy and shelter have been analysed with a fresh approach. Apart from assessing the current crisis, the routes it could and should take have been identified. The essays are not just academic and problem oriented but provide glimpses of the alternatives, showing what could be done to tackle the real life problems. The analysis and ideas converge in the Papankala Project, a sub-city being planned in Delhi. The town planning practice in India has been critically reviewed in conclusion. The publication offers a panorama of town planning and urban development practice, which should be of interest to any body working in these fields in the Third World.
Download or read book A Free Man A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi written by Aman Sethi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A deeply moving, funny, and brilliantly written account from one of India’s most original new voices." —Katherine Boo Like Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage. Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician’s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of old Delhi. How did he end up this way? In an astonishing debut, Aman Sethi brings him and his indelible group of friends to life through their adventures and misfortunes in the Old Delhi Railway Station, the harrowing wards of a tuberculosis hospital, an illegal bar made of cardboard and plywood, and into Beggars Court and back onto the streets. In a time of global economic strain, this is an unforgettable evocation of persistence in the face of poverty in one of the world’s largest cities. Sethi recounts Ashraf’s surprising life story with wit, candor, and verve, and A Free Man becomes a moving story of the many ways a man can be free.
Download or read book Land Assembly in the Indian Metropolis written by Ramesh Chandra Gupta and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Delhi Metropolitan written by Ranjana Sengupta and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'My Understanding Of This Ferocious, Restless, Relentless Metropolis Is That Each Of Us Who Lives In This City Carries A Unique, If Virtual, Delhi Inside Our Heads.' Independence, Four Million Refugees From Pakistan And The Overwhelming Presence Of Visible And Invisible Power That Flows From New Delhi Being The Capital Have Transformed It From The Unruffled Imperial Town It Once Was To The Fearsome Metropolis It Is Today. And Yet, Says Ranjana Sengupta, This Largely Unloved City Deserves To Be Loved. Delhi Is Home To The Most Diverse Population Of Any City In The Country. The Unceasing Influx Of Migrants Has Unleashed New Urban Architectures Of Opulence And Deprivation. Different Groups Have Set Up Their Own, Different Universes, And These Manage To Coexist, Not Unhappily. And Somewhere Between The Futurist Gurgaon Skyline And The Proliferating Slums, Alongside The March Of The Metro And The Refurbishment Of Khan Market, Lie Delhi'S Unsung Sagas The Memories, The Passions And The Unspoken Expectation That The City Will Change Lives. Sengupta Illustrates How Delhi Is Essentially The Creation Of Refugees Of All Kinds, From Those Fleeing Plundered Homes Within And Across The Border To The Adventurers Who Have Flocked To The City For The Greater Opportunities Of Employment Or Simply To Be Close To The Hub Of Political Power. The Newer Delhi, She Says, In Its Turn Gained From The Accumulated And Diverse Talent And Capital It Acquired From These People, Although Haphazard Development Poses A Great Danger To It. Delhi Metropolitan Tracks The Changes From The Time 'Going To Cp' Was Almost The Only Leisure Activity For The Middle Class, Looks At The Subtle Reinventions Of Government Colonies And The Shining New Suburbs, And Inspects The Footprints Of 'Punjabification'. Have All These Actually Managed To Colonize This Extravagant, Indefinable And Unlikely City? In A Work Of Immense Detail, At Once Informed And Entertaining, Ranjana Sengupta Proffers An Answer.
Download or read book Metropolis written by Thea von Harbou and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Weimar-era novel of a futuristic society, written by the screenwriter for the iconic 1927 film, was hailed by noted science-fiction authority Forrest J. Ackerman as "a work of genius."
Download or read book Building Jaipur written by Vibhuti Sachdev and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An architectural biography of Jaipur, and a concise history of Indian architectural theory over the last 300 years.
Download or read book Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis written by Reginald Pelham BOLTON and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book H N i a Metropolis in the Making written by Collectif and published by IRD Éditions. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built on 'the bend in the Red River', Hà Nội is among Southeast Asia's most ancient capitals. Over the centuries, it took shape in part from a dense substratum of villages. With the economic liberalisation of the 1980s, it encountered several obstacles to its expansion: absence of a real land market, high population densities, the government's food self-suffciency policy that limits expropriations of land and the water management constraints of this very vulnerable delta. Since the beginning of the new millennium, the change in speed brought about by the state and by property developers in the construction and urban planning of the province-capital poses the problem of integration of in situ urbanised villages, the importance of preserving a green belt around Hà Nội and the necessity of protection from flooding. The harmonious fusion of city and countryside, which has always constituted the Red River Delta's defining feature, appears to be in jeopardy. Working from a rich body of maps and field studies, this collective work reveals how this grass-roots urbanisation encounters 'top-down' urbanisation, or metropolisation. By combining a variety of disciplinary approaches on several different scales, through a study of spatial issues and social dynamics, this atlas not only enables the reader to gauge the impact of major projects on the lives of villages integrated into the city's fabric but also to re-establish the peri-urban village stratum as a fully-fledged actor in the diversity of this emerging metropolis.
