Title & Author:

Urban form and meaning in South Asia : the shaping of cities from prehistoric to precolonial times / edited by Howard Spodek and Doris Meth Srinivasan.

Publication:

Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Hanover, N.H. : Distributed by the University Press of New England, 1993.

Description:

271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Series:

Studies in the history of art, 0091-7338 ; 31. Symposium papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ; 15

Notes:
"Proceedings of the symposium, 'Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia: The Shaping of Cities from Prehistoric to Precolonial Times, ' sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and the American Institute of Indian Studies, 3-5 December 1987"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Henry A. Millon -- Introduction: Multiple meanings of space and place / Doris Meth Srinivasan -- Urbanization in the pre-Indus and beyond. The early architectural traditions of greater Indus as seen from Mehrgarh, Baluchistan / Jean-François Jarrige ; Mohenjo-daro: type site of the earliest urbanization process in South Asia / Michael R.N. Jansen ; Reurbanization: the Eastern Punjab and beyond / Jim G. Shaffer -- Taxila. The urban position of Taxila and its place in Northwest India-Pakistan / F. Raymond Allchin ; Taxila: the central Asian connection / Gérard Fussman ; Dating the monuments of Taxila / Saifur Rahman Dar -- Sacred spaces. Madurai: the city as goddess / D. Dennis Hudson ; Temples of stone, centers of culture: sacred spaces in early medieval Kaliṅga / Mary F. Linda ; Bhaktapur: sacred patterns of a living urban tradition / Niels Gutschow -- Madras. The urban configuration of Toṇḍaimaṇḍalam: the Kāñcĩpuram Region, c. A.D. 600-1300 / R. Champakalakshmi ; City and state in late precolonial Madras / Burton Stein ; Madras in 1800: perceiving the city / Susan Neild Basu -- Perspectives from the modern era. Urban form and meaning in South Asia: perspectives from the modern era / Narayani Gupta ; Beyond Rorschach tests: Palimpsests and nodes, conflicts and consciousnesses in South Asian urban theory / Howard Spodek.

ISBN:

0894681796
9780894681790

Subject:

Cities and towns India History Congresses.
Extinct cities Pakistan Congresses.
Cities and towns South Asia History.
Villes Inde Histoire Congrès.
Villes disparues, en ruines, etc. Pākistān Congrès.
Villes Asie méridionale Histoire.
Cities and towns
Extinct cities
Stedenbouw.
Cidades (historia)
Planejamento territorial urbano.
India
Pakistan
South Asia
Urban regions Development

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings
History

Added entries:

Spodek, Howard, 1941-
Srinivasan, Doris.
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)
American Institute of Indian Studies.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; v. 31.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 15.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 88324
Call No.: ID:93-B2297
Status: Available