Religion and urbanism : reconceptualising sustainable cities for South Asia / edited by Yamini Narayanan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Narayanan, Yamini, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge research in religion and development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Religious aspects.

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--South Asia.

Sustainable urban development--South Asia.

Sustainable urban development.

Sustainable development--Religious aspects.

Sustainable development.

South Asia--Religion.

South Asia.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 216 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. Religion, urbanism and sustainable cities in South Asia / Yamini Narayanan

part I. Urban history, religion and heritage

2. Origins of Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar/Burma : an urban history of religious space, social integration and marginalisation in colonial Rangoon after 1852 / Anthony Ware

3. Religious heritage in the old city of Kabul / Stephanie Matti

4. Revisiting planning for Indian cities : the pilgrim city of Amritsar / Shikha Jain

5. Tradition versus urban public bureaucracy? : reshaping pilgrimage routes and religious heritage around contested space / Vera Lazzaretti

6. Recognising the spatial and territorial nature of religious communities in Colombo, Sri Lanka / Rohan Bastin

part II. Informality, marginalisation and violent exchange

7. Religious structures on traffic lanes : production of informality in New Delhi / Surajit Chakravarty

8. Animals and urban informality in sacred spaces: bull-calf trafficking in Simhachalam Temple, Visakhapatnam / Yamini Narayanan

9. Karachi : a case study in religious and ethnic extremism : implications for urban sustainability / Claude Rakisits

part III Reflections

10. Including religion as well as gender in Indian urban planning policy: with reference to lessons from the United Kingdom / Clara Greed

11. Religion and urban policy for South Asia : where next? / Yamini Narayanan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781315798066

1315798069

Publisher Number:

99984240491

40025574566

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