Transforming Kolkata
Title | Transforming Kolkata PDF eBook |
Author | Neeta Pokhrel |
Publisher | Asian Development Bank |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2019-05-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9292614010 |
This publication explores the views of stakeholders in the two decades of partnership between the Asian Development Bank and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in India. The Asian Development Bank supported Kolkata's integrated planning and phased investments of over $1 billion towards building resilience, inclusiveness, and improved and sustainable urban services. Essential lessons provided in this publication may be useful for other megacities in the region seeking to become more livable.
Kolkata — The Colonial City in Transition
Title | Kolkata — The Colonial City in Transition PDF eBook |
Author | Sumana Bandyopadhyay |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2022-12-20 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1000603717 |
This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India in terms of the physical, economic, social, political, and environmental aspects of urban geography, and focuses upon the inherent processes that impact its transformation. It discusses different facets of urban geography and highlights the contemporary challenges of a major primate city in South Asia, which represents the conflicts between the traditional and the modern, the rich and the poor, the skyscrapers and the shanties. With its detailed empirical research and mapping exercises based on real-time remote sensing data, the book offers an understanding of a range of contemporary urban issues. It examines the spatial consequences of urban sprawl, land-use changes, ecological crisis, climate change, critical disasters, dynamics of the peri-urban interface, neighborhood restructuring, debates around heritage conservation, housing poverty, gray spaces, governance and the political landscape of the city. This book will be useful to students, teachers, and researchers of geography, especially human geography and urban geography, urban studies, urban development and planning, regional planning, social geography, governance, ecology, economics, and South Asian studies. It will also benefit urban planners, development professionals, and those interested in the study of the city of Kolkata and its transformations.
Transforming India
Title | Transforming India PDF eBook |
Author | Sumantra Bose |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2013-09-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 067472819X |
A nation of 1.25 billion, India is the world's most diverse democracy. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork and experience of Indian politics, Sumantra Bose tells the story of democracy's evolution in India since the 1950s and describes the challenges it faces today: from poverty and inequality to Maoist revolutionaries and Kashmir secessionists.
The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City
Title | The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City PDF eBook |
Author | Deonnie Moodie |
Publisher | Paperbackshop UK Import |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0190885262 |
"Middle-class Hindus have worked to modernize Kālīghāṭ - the most famous Hindu temple in Kolkata - over the past long century. Rather than being rejected with the onslaught of European modernity, the temple became a facet through which Hindus could produce and publicize their modernity, as well as their cities' and their nation's"--
Transforming Theology
Title | Transforming Theology PDF eBook |
Author | K. Thanzauva |
Publisher | |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Christian sociology |
ISBN |
Study with reference to North East India.
Inside the Transforming Urban Asia
Title | Inside the Transforming Urban Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Darshini Mahadevia |
Publisher | Concept Publishing Company |
Pages | 688 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Globalization |
ISBN | 9788180695742 |
Contributed articles; chiefly with reference to India and China.
Transformation Groups
Title | Transformation Groups PDF eBook |
Author | Goutam Mukherjee |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2005-04-15 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9386279304 |
Contributed lectures presented earlier at Winter School on Transformation Groups.