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In the images of development : city design in the Global South / Tridib Banerjee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banerjee, Tridib, author.
- Series:
- Urban and industrial environments.
- Urban and industrial environments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Developing countries.
- City planning.
- Urbanization--Developing countries.
- Urbanization.
- Urban policy--Developing countries.
- Urban policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Magisterial and critical study of city design in the Global South, tracing the historical, economic, political, and ideological forces influencing development up to the present"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Looking back from Vila Dunia
- The fable of bell curves
- Modernity and other images of development
- Urban form and urbanism
- The canonical city
- Community, piety, autopoiesis, and aesthetics
- The colonial project
- Postcolonial utopias
- Import of design paradigms
- The spectacle of poverty and inequality
- The Faustian imperative
- The place of Medina in a global economy
- Looking ahead from Vila Dunia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-36112-4
- 0-262-36111-6
- OCLC:
- 1257083859
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