1st Edition
Building Bangalore Architecture and urban transformation in India’s Silicon Valley
By John Stallmeyer
Copyright 2011
160 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Examining spatial transformations in Bangalore, one of India's fastest growing cities, this book highlights the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) development on the city. Focusing on the production of urban space and the processes that inform such production, the author proposes that Silicon Valley, California has become a globalized model for the production of ICT... Read more
1. Introduction Part 1: Processes and Context 2. Informational Production and City/Urban Space 3. Bangalore - Context and Continuum Part 2: Actually Existing Informational Urbanisms 4. The Image Made Manifest - Electronics City 5. Reoccuppying the Colonial Core - The New CBD 6. Domesticating ICT - Indiranagar and SP Road 7. Conclusion
Biography
John C. Stallmeyer is Assistant Professor of Architecture at University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research examines the influences of globalization on the built environment.
