Representing Calcutta

Representing Calcutta
Title Representing Calcutta PDF eBook
Author Swati Chattopadhyay
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 344
Release 2005
Genre Calcutta (India)
ISBN 9780415343596

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Exploring the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city, this post colonial study addresses the questions of modernity and space that haunt our perception of Calcutta.

Depicting Calcutta

Depicting Calcutta
Title Depicting Calcutta PDF eBook
Author Swati Chattopadhyay
Publisher
Pages 854
Release 1997
Genre Buildings
ISBN

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Making Lahore Modern

Making Lahore Modern
Title Making Lahore Modern PDF eBook
Author William J. Glover
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 289
Release
Genre
ISBN 1452913382

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Fifty years after the British annexed the Punjab and made Lahore its provincial capital, the city—once a prosperous Mughal center that had long since fallen into ruin—was transformed. British and Indian officials had designed a modern, architecturally distinct city center adjacent to the old walled city, administered under new methods of urban governance. In Making Lahore Modern, William J. Glover investigates the traditions that shaped colonial Lahore. In particular, he focuses on the conviction that both British and Indian actors who implemented urbanization came to share: that the material fabric of the city could lead to social and moral improvement. This belief in the power of the physical environment to shape individual and collective sentiments, he argues, links the colonial history of Lahore to nineteenth-century urbanization around the world. Glover highlights three aspects of Lahore’s history that show this process unfolding. First, he examines the concepts through which the British understood the Indian city and envisioned its transformation. Second, through a detailed study of new buildings and the adaptation of existing structures, he explores the role of planning, design, and reuse. Finally, he analyzes the changes in urban imagination as evidenced in Indian writings on the city in this period. Throughout, Glover emphasizes that colonial urbanism was not simply imposed; it was a collaborative project between Indian citizens and the British. Offering an in-depth study of a single provincial city, Glover reveals that urban change in colonial India was not a monolithic process and establishes Lahore as a key site for understanding the genealogy of modern global urbanism. William J. Glover is associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan.

Constructing Place

Constructing Place
Title Constructing Place PDF eBook
Author Sarah Menin
Publisher Routledge
Pages 349
Release 2004-02-24
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1134379080

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This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed.

Redeeming Calcutta

Redeeming Calcutta
Title Redeeming Calcutta PDF eBook
Author Steve Raymer
Publisher OUP India
Pages 0
Release 2012-11-29
Genre History
ISBN 9780198082187

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This book takes a fresh look at one of Asia's great cities, a metropolis of hope and decay that was once the Second City of the British Empire after London. With around 200 photographs, including historic black-and-white images, coupled with a timely and detailed text, the book takes us through the streets, ghats, and corridors of Calcutta and paints an inclusive and nuanced portrait of the city.

Material Life of Northern India

Material Life of Northern India
Title Material Life of Northern India PDF eBook
Author Asha Vishnu
Publisher Mittal Publications
Pages 412
Release 1993
Genre Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN 9788170994107

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Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film

Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film
Title Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film PDF eBook
Author Isabel Vila-Cabanes
Publisher Vernon Press
Pages 280
Release
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1648890563

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The volume assembles fresh treatments on the flâneur in literature, film and culture from a variety of angles. Its individual contributions cover established as well as previously unnoticed textual and filmic source materials in a historical perspective ranging from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The range of topics covered demonstrates the ongoing productivity of flânerie as a viable paradigm for the artistic approach to urban culture and the continuing suitability of flânerie as an analytic category for the scholarly examination of urban representation in the arts. This productiveness also extends to the questioning, re-evaluation, and enhancement of flânerie’s theoretical foundations as they were laid down by Walter Benjamin and others. The work will be particularly relevant for students and scholars of literary studies, film studies and gender studies, as well as for theoretical approaches to flânerie as an important aspect of urban culture.