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Colonial Urban Development Culture, Social Power and Environment

346 Pages

by Routledge

346 Pages

by Routledge

336 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this. The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular society, to be understood only in terms of its values, behaviour and institutions and the... Read more

Part One

1. Colonial urban development : the problem stated

2. Towards a theory of colonial urban development

3. The social and cultural context of colonial urban development

Part Two

4. The language of colonial urbanisation

5. Military space: The Cantonment as a system of environmental control

6. Residential space: the bungalow-compound complex as a study in the cultural use of space

7. Social Space: the hill station as a cultural community

Part Three

8. Delhi: a case study in colonial urban development

9. The transformation of a pre-industrial city, 1857-1911