Colonial Urban Development : Culture, Social Power and Environment

ISBN-13: 9780415418140 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 328 str.

Anthony D. King

Opis

Focuses on the social and cultural processes governing colonial urban development. This book 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 distribution of social and political power.

Spis treści

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 10. Imperial Delhi, 1911-47: a model of colonial urban development Part Four 11. Colonial urban development: some implications for further research

O autorze

Anthony D. King