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Rule by aesthetics : world-class city making in Delhi
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ghertner, D. Asher, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Delhi--India.
- City planning.
- Slums--Delhi--India.
- Slums.
- Urban renewal--India--Delhi.
- Urban renewal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Rule by Aesthetics' draws on extensive fieldwork in Delhi's slums, courtrooms and state offices to shed fresh light on the violent underpinnings of contemporary city making. Presenting a new theory of urban power, Ghertner shows how aesthetic codes replaced conventional city planning tools in Delhi's millennial slum clearance drive.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 9, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-026332-6
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