Making Lahore modern : constructing and imagining a colonial city / William J. Glover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glover, William J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Pakistan--Lahore--History--19th century.

City planning.

Architecture--Pakistan--Lahore--History--19th century.

Architecture.

Architecture, British colonial--Pakistan--Lahore.

Architecture, British colonial.

Lahore (Pakistan)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Lahore (Pakistan).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

William J. Glover investigates the traditions that shaped colonial Lahore, focusing on the conviction that both British and Indian actors who implemented urbanization shared: that the material fabric of the city could lead to social and moral improvement.Glover reveals that urban change in colonial India was not a monolithic process and establishes Lahore as a key site for understanding the genealogy of modern global urbanism.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 An Urban Palimpsest: The Precolonial Development of Lahore; 2 A Colonial Spatial Imagination: British Knowledge of the City and Its Environs; 3 Collaborations: Building an Elite Landscape in Lahore's Civil Station; 4 Changing Houses: Rethinking and Rebuilding Townhouses and Neighborhoods; 5 Anxieties at Home: The Disquieting British Bungalow; 6 Thinking with the City: Urban Writing in Colonial Lahore; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5395-X

OCLC:

476125812