E. Coward, Walter. "Property Rights and Network Order: The Case of Irrigation...
In the middle of the 19th century, as part of their governance of the Punjab region, the British surveyed existing property rights in Kangra District (now an administrative unit in Himachal Pradesh)....
View ArticleGeorge, Arun, Amita Sinha, and Varkki George Pallathucheril. "The Goshree...
Kochi, the commercial capital of Kerala, is one of the busiest seaports in India, and is believed to be one of the fastest growing regions in the country. To connect the islands—Bolghatty and...
View ArticleHasan, Arif. "International Capital, NGOs, Architects and Communities: The...
Pakistan's urban areas face the same problems as other urban areas in South and South-East Asia. Two of these problems have been of immense concern to “civil society” organisations in Karachi. One is...
View ArticleSudhi, Padma. "An Encyclopaedic Study on Circumambulation." Annals of the...
As the source of information about circumambulation has been available in the folk-tales and folk-lores of the world, we can say that the practice of walking round an object, person or sacrifice to...
View ArticleTrivedi, Harshad. "The "Semi-Urban Pocket" as Concept and Reality in India."...
India is a country of villages which together contain slightly over 80 percent of the total population. This fact has led many thinkers to the conclusion that problems of development and democratic...
View ArticleLahiri, Nayanjot. "Coming to Grips with India's Past and her ‘Living...
Rescuing monuments from vegetation, time and 'vandalism', especially that inaugurated by the early phase of British rule in India, this was John Marshall's main brief during the viceroyalty of George...
View ArticleNemser, Daniel. "Eviction and the archive: materials for an archaeology of...
This essay outlines an experimental microhistory of the founding of the Archivo General de Indias (AGI) in Seville, Spain, one that attends to the localized exclusions that characterize this...
View ArticleMaïni, Satprem. "Earthen Architecture in Auroville: Linking a World Tradition...
The development of earth architecture in Auroville attempts to link the ancestral tradition of raw earth buildings and the modern technology of stabilised earth. The R&D conducted by the Auroville...
View ArticleAlley, Kelly. "Heritage Conservation and Urban Development in India."...
This paper discusses the role a voluntary organization plays in the spatial definition and material conservation of cultural heritage in late twentieth century India. Voluntary organizations work in a...
View ArticleHegewald, Julia A. B.. "Multi-shrined Complexes: The Ordering of Space in...
This article will examine issues of layout and spatial organisation in Jaina temples in India. Most studies of Jaina architecture have concentrated on the external ornamentation and the sculptural...
View ArticleChekuri, Christopher. "Imagining the Kākatīyas Two Centuries Later:...
This paper examines the political landscapes that shape the Pratāparudracaritramu, a Telugu text composed in the late fifteenth century. As both a hagiographic and genealogical text, the...
View ArticleKasdorf, Katherine. "Transporting Sculptures and Transferring Prestige:...
The Āṇḍāḷ shrine of Belur, Karnataka, located in the compound of the Hoysaḷa-period Cenna Kēśava temple, is a visually striking building, its exterior walls lined with large sculptural blocks featuring...
View ArticleHeslop, Luke Alexander. "On sacred ground: the political performance of...
April 2012: In Dambulla, a bustling market town built around a crossroads on the northern cusp of Sri Lanka's central province, a mosque was attacked by a procession of protestors led by the chief...
View ArticleBiondo, III, Vincent F.. "The Architecture of Mosques in the US and Britain."...
Theologically speaking, mosque architecture is insignificant since a masjid is simply a clean, oriented, and conducive place for prayer. As phenomena in the US and Britain, however, the architecture...
View ArticleDovey, Kim, and Ross King. "Informal Urbanism and the Taste for Slums."...
This paper explores the aesthetics and politics of slum tourism – what are the attractions and what are the dangers of aestheticizing poverty? We first present eleven images of slums and informal...
View ArticleSteinbrink, Malte. "‘We did the Slum!’ – Urban Poverty Tourism in Historical...
Slum tourism in the Global South is a relatively new phenomenon. The tourist gaze at the poverty of the Others is long established, though. This paper is concerned with the genesis of urban poverty...
View ArticleDyson, Peter. "Slum Tourism: Representing and Interpreting ‘Reality’ in...
This article examines how Dharavi is represented to, and interpreted by, tourists participating in walking tours around Mumbai's largest slum. Across the world ‘the slum’ is positioned as space more...
View ArticleDengle, Narendra. "Urbanization, Farm Land And The Form Of Public Space." New...
The process of urbanization in India has had a tremendous impact on small towns, district places, villages and the predominantly agrarian society in this country. Although the rate of urbanization is...
View Articlele Roux, Hannah. "The networks of tropical architecture." The Journal of...
The concept of tropical architecture is one that was constructed in the 1950s to link the work of modernist practitioners in a number of locations outside the West. Tropical architecture has been...
View ArticlePadgett, Deborah K., and Prachi Priyam. "Pavement Dwelling in Delhi, India:...
This article examines survival among homeless persons (“pavement dwellers”) in Delhi, India. In particular, we explore the role of formal and informal relationships in meeting the demands of daily...
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