CONTENT: Preface 3 Aim 3 Objective 3 Scope 3 Limitation 3 Methodology 4 Introduction 5 0.1.0 Urbanity and Indian Context 6 0.2.0 People: Dislocation, Relocation and the Urban Flux 7 0.3.0 Quality, Value and the Choice: The basis of Architecture 7 0.4.0 Endnotes 9 1 Puzzle Urbanity: Comprehending Broader Meanings 11 1.1.0 Meanings from Dictionary 12 1.2.0 Conceptual Invisibility of Urbanity 14 1.3.0 Urbanity as Integral to Technological Advancement 17 1.4.0 Theory of Individual Trajectory and Notion of Urban Community 19 1.5.0 Reading the City 21 1.6.0 Endnotes 25 2 Design as Taming of Chance: William Whytes Use of the Unplanned 27 2.1.0 Notion of Chance: Imposition of Rational Order through Design 27 2.2.0 From Citizens to Populations Governmentalisation of the State 28 2.3.0 Renaissance as Linear Order 28 2.3.1 Mechanisation in 19th century 29 2.3.2 Colonial Laws in India: Discipline and Public Space 30 2.3.3 Future through design 32 2.4.0 Urbanity and Design Approaches 33 2.5.0 William Whyte 2.5.1 Background 34 2.5.2 Suburbs and Planning Process 34 2.5.3 Inner City and Its Life 34 2.5.4 Public Life and Importance of the Unplanned 35 2.5.5 Methods of Urban Research 36 2.6.0 Concept and Theory of Urbanity 36 2.6.1 On Crowding 37 2.6.2 On Interaction in Urban Public Space 37 2.6.3 Social Ritual of Schmoosing 38 2.6.4 Relationship to the Street 38 2.6.5 Sense of Place 38 2.6.6 Temporal Rhythms of Public Spaces 38 2.6.7 Mayors as Communication Hubs 38 2.6.8 Supply Creates Demand 39 2.6.9 Accidental Spaces 39 2.7.0 Bryant Park - A Successful Design of Public Space 39 2.7.1 Why It Works 39 2.7.2 History and Background 41 2.8.0 Endnotes 43 3 Social Exclusion and the Everyday Public Space 45 3.1.0 The Private and the Public: Historical Perspective 45 3.1.1 The Rise of the Private and Influence on Public Space 48 3.2.0 The Publication of Space 50 3.3.0 Social Exclusion - Control over Public Domain 54 3.4.0 Figure of the Architect 56 3.5.0 Everyday Cultures and Heterogeneous Urban Identity 58 3.5.1 Spatial Formations of Everyday Heterogeneity 61 3.6.0 Endnotes 68 4 Illustrations (Case Studies) 71 4.1.0 Illu. No. 1 : Chai Kittali- 1 73 4.2.0 Illu. No. 2 : Chai Kittali- 2 81 4.3.0 Illu. No. 3 : Gulbai Tekra Wall 87 4.4.0 Illu. No. 4 : Gai Mata Gali, Sahajanand College 95 4.5.0 Illu. No. 5 : Drinking Water Fountain (Parab) at a House 101 4.6.0 Illu. No. 6 : ATIRA- PRL Street (Prem gali) 107 4.7.0 Illu. No. 7:Installation of Religious Icons on a Compound Wall at Beema Nagar 115 4.8.0 Illu. No. 8 : Ram-roti at Hanuman Mandir, Premdarvaza 121 Conclusion 129 Bibliography 133 Illustration Credit 135