Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism
Hosagrahar, Jyoti
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PRODUCT DETAILS
Book ID : 30604
ISBN-10 : 0-415-32376-2 / 0415323762
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2006
Edition :
Language : English
240p., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. Becoming Modern; 2. Fragmenting Domestic Landscapes: From Mansions to Margins; 3 Negotiating Streets and Squares: Spatial Culture in the Public Realm; 4. Sanitizing Neighborhoods: Geographies of Health; 5. Beyond the Walls: Commerce of Urban Expansion; 6. Imagining Modernity: Symbolic Terrains of Housing; 7. Recovering an Urban Past;
DESCRIPTION
This book examins how an historic, and so called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms, in form, use and meaning. Through a focused study of Delhi, the author challenges prevalant assumptions in architecture and urbanism and identifies an interpretation of modernism that goes beyound conventional understanding.
