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The moving city : scenes from the Delhi metro and the social life of infrastructure / Rashmi Sadana.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sadana, Rashmi, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--India--Delhi.
- City planning.
- Urbanization--India--Delhi.
- Urbanization.
- Subways--India--Delhi Metropolitan Area.
- Subways.
- Delhi (India)--Social life and customs.
- Delhi (India).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- The Moving City is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi's Metro, a massive infrastructure project that is reshaping the city's social and urban landscapes. Ethnographic vignettes introduce the feel and form of the Metro and let readers experience the city, scene by scene, stop by stop, as if they, too, have come along for the ride. Laying bare the radical possibilities and concretized inequalities of the Metro, and how people live with and through its built environment, this is a story of women and men on the move, the nature of Indian aspiration, and what it takes morally and materially to sustain urban life. Through exquisite prose, Rashmi Sadana transports the reader to a city shaped by both its Metro and those who depend on it, revealing a perspective on Delhi unlike any other.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Map 1
- The Train to Dwarka
- Mandi House
- Vanita
- The Image of the City
- Metro Bhawan
- Space and Matter
- Red Line
- Resident Welfare
- Okhla Station
- Naipaul on the Metro
- Nukkad Natak
- Mumbai
- Urban Hazards
- Ramlila Maidan
- From Badarpur
- Yellow Line
- Drishti
- A Developed Country
- Social Space
- Seelampur Station
- Pressure Cooker
- Blue Line
- Delhi-6
- Bus Rapid Transit
- The Bicycle Fixer
- Map 2
- A Road’s Geography
- The Gangway
- Spontaneous Urbanism
- Nehru Place
- Rupali
- Chief Minister
- City of Malls
- Violet Line
- Metal and Plastic
- Chawri Bazar
- Ajay and Gita
- Ring Road
- Grievance and Governance
- Morning Commute
- Orange Line
- The Play about the Metro
- Aspirational Planning
- Renu and Shiv
- Layers and Sediment
- Green Line
- Cycle Rickshaw-wala
- Metro Mob
- The Techno-cosmopolitan
- The Politics of Speed
- Map 3
- World Class
- Strike
- Bus
- Infrastructure by Example
- Magenta Line
- Radhika
- Posture
- Integration
- The Photo That Went Viral
- Voids and Solids
- Beauty Salon
- Suicide
- Multiple Choice
- Jahnavi
- Café Coffee Day
- Looks
- Street Survey
- Aasif
- E-rickshaws
- Love Marriage and a Head Injury
- Fare Hike
- At Home in Dakshinpuri
- Dilli Haat
- Pink Line
- City Park
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sadana, Rashmi The Moving City
- ISBN:
- 9780520383975
- 0520383974
- OCLC:
- 1283853209
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