Building Bangalore: Architecture and urban transformation in India's Silicon Valley

ISBN-13: 9780415780841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 160 str.

John C. Stallmeyer

Opis

Bangalore is one of India's fastest growing and most important cities. This book studies the city and directly examines its built environment with relation to information and communications technology (ICT) development.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.