Urban Studies

Urban Studies
Author: Prabhash P. Singh
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1988
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9788170990598

Negotiating Cultures

Negotiating Cultures
Author: Pilar Maria Guerrieri
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2018-01-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0199091730

Focusing on one of the largest megacities in the world—Delhi—this volume is a rare peek into the ineluctable process of hybridization between Indian and ‘other’ cultures within its local architecture and urban planning. The book explores a segment of the history of Delhi from 1912 through 1962, when the contemporary megacity was born, making a comparison between pre- and post-Independence, which is relatively neglected in academia. The author traces architectural and urban elements of the city of Delhi to understand how foreign developmental models were indigenized, the resistance encountered in the process, and finally their adaptation to local architectural contexts. Highlighting the complexities of ‘multiple Delhis’ with different or simultaneous cultural influences as well as with the various ways those influences have been interpreted or contextualized, the author offers a fresh insight into what is happening in Delhi’s globalized built environment nowadays. The book aims to unearth the social relations emerging from the constant flux in style of architecture and its related elements in an urbanized area.

Solid Waste Management

Solid Waste Management
Author: Subhash Anand
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2010
Genre: Refuse and refuse disposal
ISBN: 9788183243537

Study conducted in Delhi, India.

Learning from Delhi

Learning from Delhi
Author: Maurice Mitchell
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781409401025

An invaluable theoretical and practical guide to 'thinking global and acting local'. The book is based on a ground-breaking course run by the London Metropolitan University School of Architecture, in which students produce schemes from research undertaken during field trips to India. It provides a comprehensive review of the course and of the schemes produced since 2002, and argues the value of linking practical projects with education in the studio.

Traders and Tinkers

Traders and Tinkers
Author: Maitrayee Deka
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2023-08-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1503636011

The term "tinker" calls to mind nomadic medieval vendors who operate on the fringe of formal society. Excluded from elite circles and characterized by an ability to leverage minimal resources, these tradesmen live and die by their ability to adapt their stores to the popular tastes of the day. In Delhi in the 21st century, an extensive network of informal marketplaces, or bazaars, has evolved over the course of the city's history, across colonial and postcolonial regimes. Their resilience as an economic system is the subject of this book. Today, instead of mending and selling fabrics and pots, these street vendors are primarily associated with electronic products—computers, cell phones, motherboards, and video games. This book offers a deep ethnography of three Delhi bazaars, and a cast of tinkers, traders, magicians, street performers, and hackers who work there. It is an exploration, and recognition, of the role of bazaars and tinkers in the modern global economy, driving globalization from below. In Delhi, and across the world, these street markets work to create a new information society, as the global popular classes aspire to elite consumer goods they cannot afford except in counterfeit.

Uncivil City

Uncivil City
Author: Amita Baviskar
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2020-04-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9789353289430

This book looks at two decades of environmental politics in Delhi and argues that 'bourgeois environmentalists' who claim to speak for nature and society have perversely worsened the quality of life for most citizens.