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Gated luxury condominiums in India : a socio-spatial arena for new cosmopolitans / Dhara Patel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patel, Dhara (Dhara Ramesh), author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in architecture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Condominiums--India.
- Condominiums.
- Gated communities--India.
- Gated communities.
- High-rise apartment buildings--India.
- High-rise apartment buildings.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Dwellings--India.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Architecture and globalization--India.
- Architecture and globalization.
- India--Economic conditions--1991-.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Dhara Patel is an architect and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Urban and Spatial Sociology, Institute of Sociology, TU Darmstadt, Germany. Her research focuses on the intersection of architecture, urban studies and sociology, with a particular emphasis on housing and socio-spatial dynamics. She holds a PhD in Architecture Building and Planning from the University of Melbourne. Her scholarly pursuits delve into the transformative impacts of globalisation on living spaces, the intricacies of postcolonial urbanism and the material manifestations of culture in the built environment.
- Contents:
- The allure of exclusivity : imagery, investment and identity
- Liminal luxury : identity and spatial constructs
- Dwellings and social prestige
- vernacular, colonial, postcolonial India
- The new cosmopolitans
- modern domesticity
- Old discriminations, new spatial mechanisms : the spectacle of consumption
- From global to neocolonial? progression of type
- Beyond the gates : unpacking social mobility and spatial politics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Patel, Dhara Gated luxury condominiums in India
- ISBN:
- 9781003389019
- 1003389015
- 9781040037782
- 104003778X
- 9781040037812
- 104003781X
- Publisher Number:
- 40032415927
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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