BHATTACHARYA, RAJESH, and KALYAN SANYAL. "Bypassing the Squalor: New Towns,...
India's "bypass" approach to urbanisation seeks to decongest its post-colonial metropolises by building new towns for a new economy of knowledge-based activities and businesses driven by global capital...
View ArticleYeravdekar, Vidya Rajiv, and Gauri Tiwari. "The Contribution of Private...
A long standing debate in India relates to the extent to which the Indian Government be duly allowed to intervene in the supervision of the higher education institutions. Increasingly, it is being...
View ArticleGinting, Nurlisa, and Julaihi Wahid. "Exploring Identity's Aspect of...
Continuity is one important aspect forming identity of a place. This research aims to investigate the influence of continuity in one of the historic corridors of Medan city. It uses three indicators;...
View ArticleBarnes, Gina L.. "An introduction to Buddhist archaeology." World Archaeology...
This introduction to the volume provides background information necessary for understanding the arrangement and content of the succeeding articles. The origin and general concepts of the Buddhist...
View ArticleRajan, Gita. "Exhibiting Technology, Experiencing Culture: 'India Through the...
This essay discusses a photography exhibition titled 'India Through the Lens' curated during the Winter 2000-Spring 2001 season by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, a division of the Smithsonian...
View ArticleOrlebar, A. B.. "The Influence of a Parabolic Moulding upon the Buddhist...
THE island of Salsette, or of the Sixty Villages, owes the peculiar loveliness of its scenery to volcanic eruptions, which at some time subsequent to the commencement of the tertiary period, have at...
View ArticleDupont, Véronique. "Around the illegal city." City 17, no. 6 (2013): 822-826.
In a special feature of City (Vol. 15, No. 6) entitled ‘Beyond the Return of the “Slum”’ as a tribute to Alan Gilbert’s work—with reference to his 2007 article—Pushpa Arabindoo (2011, 636) pleaded...
View ArticleSengupta, Mitu. "Non-place, dispossession, and the 2010 Commonwealth Games:...
French anthropologist Marc Augé's concept of the ‘non-place’ is a useful tool for critiquing the excesses of modernity and capitalism, such as the destruction of small, egalitarian communities, and the...
View ArticleSharan, Awadhendra. "A river and the riverfront: Delhi’s Yamuna as an...
This essay examines the presence of Yamuna in the city of Delhi, from two perspectives: (i) understanding riverscapes as simultaneously aquatic and terrestrial and (ii) understanding these as...
View ArticleThynell, Marie, Dinesh Mohan, and Geetam Tiwari. "Sustainable transport and...
This article addresses issues of the development of transport systems taking its examples from Delhi and Stockholm. The introduction of the first bus rapid transport corridor in Delhi and the...
View ArticleAhmad, Sohail. "Housing demand and housing policy in urban Bangladesh." Urban...
This paper estimates demand for housing and its attributes in urban Bangladesh using a survey of 4400 owner, renter and squatter households. The results revealed that housing demand is inelastic with...
View ArticleBhattacharyya, Dibyendu Bikash, and Soumen Mitra. "Making Siliguri a Walkable...
Walkability provides a foundation for a sustainable city. The effectiveness of walkability is linked with socio- economic, environmental and psychological issues. Walkability provides safety, security...
View ArticleDupont, Véronique. "Conflicting stakes and governance in the peripheries of...
Specific forms of urbanisation are evolving on the peripheries of the large developing metropolises. These processes of peri-urbanisation result in the formation of “mixed spaces”, midway between urban...
View ArticleDupont, Véronique. "Which Place for the Homeless in Delhi? Scrutiny of a...
The socio-spatial restructuring of Delhi was accompanied by large-scale slum demolitions that increased homelessness. This paper focuses on the people made homeless, and their struggle to assert their...
View ArticleRamakrishnan, Sivakumar, Pradeep Isawasan, and Vasuky Mohanan. "Hermeneutical...
The primary purpose of this paper is to address the role and the significance of fusion of intentions in order to establish meaningful and interpretable discourse called Hermeneutical Discourse. The...
View ArticleSaglio-Yatzimirsky, Marie-Caroline, Frédéric Landy, Véronique Dupont, Damien...
In this chapter, we shall focus on the analysis of the consequences of slum demolitions at the local level, as experienced by the affected households (i.e. the first “actors from below” to be...
View ArticleSaglio-Yatzimirsky, Marie-Caroline, Frédéric Landy, Nicolas Bautès, Véronique...
The focus of this chapter is to examine some of the modalities of resistance emerging in and around slum rehabilitation schemes in the metropolises of India and Brazil. For most of the slum dwellers in...
View ArticleSaglio-Yatzimirsky, Marie-Caroline, Frédéric Landy, Hervé Théry, Louise...
While macro-perspectives often tend to overlook local specificities and may risk leading to inefficient measurements and erroneous analyses, the micro-perspectives that constitute most of this book...
View ArticleSaglio-Yatzimirsky, Marie-Caroline, Frédéric Landy, Neli de Mello-Théry,...
The debate on environmental protection vs. human development is nothing new, but it has been re-emerging for some decades given the growing urbanization: issues that had already come up as...
View ArticleTarapor, Mahrukh. "John Lockwood Kipling and British Art Education in India."...
IF JOHN LOCKWOOD KIPLING IS REMEMBERED TODAY, IT IS PRIMARILY AS the illustrator of his son's books. Rudyard Kipling, in fact, throughout his long life, remembered his father as "a mine of knowledge...
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