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UNINA9910788492203321 |
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Ecologies of Urbanism in India : Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability / / edited by Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan |
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Hong Kong [China] : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2013 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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988-8180-71-1 |
988-220-848-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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SivaramakrishnanK. <1957-> |
RademacherAnne |
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Sustainable development - India |
Sustainability - India |
Urban ecology (Sociology) - India |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Foreword / by Helen F. Siu -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction : ecologies of urbanism in India / Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan -- 2. Is there an "Indian" urbanism? / Janaki Nair -- 3. One air, two interventions : Delhi in the age of environment / Awadhendra sharan -- 4. The troubled passage from "village communities" to planned new town developments in mid-twentieth-century South Asia / William J. Glover -- 5. Flexible planning : the making of India's "millennium city" / Gurgaon Shubhra Gururani -- 6. From the frying pan to the floodplain : negotiating land, Water, and fire in Chennai's development / Karen Coelho and Nithya V. Raman -- 7. Value struggles : waste work and urban ecology in Delhi / Vinay Gidwani -- 8. Housing in the urban age : inequality and aspiration in Mumbai / Nikhil Anand and Anne Rademacher -- 9. Resettlement ecologies : environmental subjectivity and graduated citizenship in Mumbai / Sapana Doshi -- 10. Nuisance talk : middle-class discourses of a slum-free Delhi / D. Asher Ghertner -- Index. |
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This book seeks to understand how rapidly proliferating and resource-intensive urbanism affects everyday lived environments and the ecological processes that undergird them in Indian cities. Case studies on nature conservation in the city, urban housing and slum development, waste management, the history and practice of urban planning, and contestations over the quality of air, water, and sanitation in the major cities of Delhi and Mumbai, illuminate the urban ecology perspective at different points across the twentieth century. The book therefore explores how struggles over the environment and quality of life in urban centers are increasingly framed in terms of their future place in a landscape of global sustainability, and the future relationship between cities and their changing hinterlands. It brings both historical particularity and ethnographic nuance to the questions of urban ecology in Indian cities, offering novel insights into some of the most vital theoretical and practical debates on urbanism and sustainability. |
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UNINA9910808938603321 |
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Glendinning Miles <1956-> |
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A history of Scottish architecture : from the Renaissance to the present day / / Miles Glendinning, Ranald MacInnes and Aonghus MacKechnie |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2002 |
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©1997 |
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1 online resource (xiv, 626 pages) : illustrations |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-542) and indexes. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Late Fifteenth Century to 1560 -- Chapter 2 1560-1660 -- Chapter 3 1660-1760 -- Chapter 4 1760-1800 -- Chapter 5 1800-1840 -- Chapter 6 1840-1880 -- Chapter 7 1880-1914 -- Chapter 8 1914-1960 -- Chapter 9 1960 to the Present Day |
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-- Conclusion -- Bibliography and Notes -- Glossary -- List of Architects and Building Designers -- Index |
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At last - here is a single volume authoritative history of Scottish architecture. This compact yet comprehensive account combines factual description of the vast and fertile range of visual forms and key architects in each period with a wide-ranging analysis of their social, ideological and historical context. As Scotland has often been closely involved with new trends in western architecture, this book highlights the interaction of Scottish developments with broader European and international movements. From the beginnings of the Renaissance in the 15th century right up to the 1990s, this much-needed survey covers the entire post-medieval story in one volume. |
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