Indigenous modernities : negotiating architecture and urbanism / Jyoti Hosagrahar.

Main entry:

Hosagrahar, Jyoti, author.

Title & Author:

Indigenous modernities : negotiating architecture and urbanism / Jyoti Hosagrahar.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Description:

xiii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

The Architext series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Becoming 'modern' -- Fragmenting domestic landscapes: from mansions to margins -- Negotiating streets and squares: spatial culture in the public realm -- Sanitizing neighborhoods: geographies of health -- Beyond the walls: commerce of urban expansion -- Imagining modernity: symbolic terrains of housing -- Recovering an urban past.

Summary:

The author examines the ways in which a historic, and so-called 'traditional' city quietly mutated into one that was modern in its own terms not only in form but also in its use and meaning.

Resources:
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Book review (H-Net)
Publisher description
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ISBN:

0415323754 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780415323758 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0415323762 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415323765 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0203356780
9780203356784

Subject:

Architecture India Delhi 19th century.
Architecture India Delhi 20th century.
City planning India Delhi History 19th century.
City planning India Delhi History 20th century.
Urbanisme Inde Delhi Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Inde Delhi 20e siècle.
Urbanisme Inde Delhi Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture Inde Delhi 19e siècle.
Architecture.
City planning.
Delhi (India) History.
Delhi (Inde) Histoire.
India Delhi.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Architext series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 242663
Call No.: BIB 172468
Status: Available

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