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House, but no garden : apartment living in Bombay's suburbs, 1898-1964 / Nikhil Rao.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rao, Nikhil.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture and society--India--Mumbai Suburban Area--History--20th century.
- Architecture and society.
- Suburban homes--India--Mumbai Suburban Area.
- Suburban homes.
- Apartment houses--India--Mumbai Suburban Area.
- Apartment houses.
- Apartment dwellers--India--Mumbai Suburban Area.
- Apartment dwellers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the city's fabric occurred: the emergence of the first suburbs and their distinctive pattern of apartment living. In House, but No Garden Nikhil Rao considers this phenomenon and its significance for South Asian urban life. It is the first book to explore an organization of the middle-class neighborhood that became ubiquitous in the mid-twentieth-century city and that has spread throughout the subcontinent.Rao examines how the challenge of converting lands
- Contents:
- An Indian Suburb
- Peopling the Suburbs
- The Rise of the Bombay Flat
- The Spread of Apartment Living
- From Southern Indians to "South Indians"
- Toward Greater Mumbai.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4803-8
- 0-8166-8210-0
- OCLC:
- 846495008
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