Religion and Urbanism: Reconceptualising Sustainable Cities for South Asia

ISBN-13: 9781138597853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 216 str.

Yamini Narayanan

Opis

Religion and Urbanism contributes to an expanded understanding of the notion of 'sustainable cities' in the context of South Asia by demonstrating that religion exerts a significant influence on the nature of urban development in the region. The book argues that the multiple, often conflicting and complicated ways in which religion or the multiplicity of religions enable or challenge socially equitable and ecologically sustainable urbanisation must thus be considered in analyses of 'sustainable urban development' of the region.

Spis treści

1. Religion, Urbanism and Sustainable Cities in South Asia  Part I: Urban history, religion and heritage  2. Origins of Buddhist Nationalism in Myanmar/Burma? An urban history of religious space, social integration and marginalisation in colonial Rangoon after 1852  3. Religious Heritage in the Old City of Kabul  4. Revisiting planning for Indian Cities: the pilgrim city of Amritsar  5. Tradition versus urban public bureaucracy? Reshaping pilgrimage routes and religious heritage around contested space  6. Recognising the Spatial and Territorial Nature of Religious Communities in Colombo, Sri Lanka  Part II: Informality, marginalisation and violent exchange  7. Religious structures on traffic lanes: Production of informality in New Delhi  8. Animals and urban informality in sacred spaces: Bull-calf trafficking in Simhachalam Temple, Visakhapatnam  9. Karachi - A Case Study in Religious and Ethnic Extremism: Implications for Urban Sustainability  Part III: Reflections  10. Including Religion as well as Gender in Indian Urban Planning Policy: with reference to Lessons from the UK  11. Religion and Urban Policy for South Asia: Where Next?

O autorze

Yamini Narayanan is a Lecturer in International and Community Development at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.