TY - BOOK AU - Sabhapandit, Amrita (PA100316) AU - Kadam, Rajiv (Guide) AU - Sharma, Chandan Kumar (Guide) TI - Study of the relationship of social system and urban form : case of Uzan bazr, Guwahati (Also available on CD) U1 - M.Arch TH-0149 PY - 2018/// N1 - CONTENTS ABSTRACT 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . 3 CONTENTS 5 LIST OF FIGURES 9 LIST OF TABLES . 10 LIST OF EQUATIONS 10 1. INTRODUCTION . 11 1.1 Frame of Inquiry . 11 1. 1.1.1 Aim 12 2. 1.1.2 Objectives 12 3. 1.1.3 Need for the study: . 12 4. 1.1.4 Site Selection . 12 5. 1.1.5 Methodology 13 6. 1.1.6. Scope and Limitation 13 1.2 Understanding the larger envelope of current political economy . 14 7. 1.2.1. What is Neoliberalism? . 14 8. 1.2.2. Neoliberalism simplifies . 16 9. 1.2.3. How does Neoliberalism simplify? . 17 10. 1.2.4 Critique and the problems Neoliberalism comes with: 18 1.3 The study of societies in cities – domain of Urban Sociology . 20 11. 1.3.1. What is Urban Sociology? 20 12. 1.3.2. Special or distinctive features of urban community . 21 1.4 The scope of the study in Urbanized Guwahati: 23 2.THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK . 25 2.1 What is Society? 25 13. 2.1.1. Conceptualising social system 25 14. 2.1.2 The social system triode 26 15. 2.1.3 Social conditions: . 27 2.2 Urban form 28 2.3 Society and the city – unidirectional understanding VS complex web structure . 16. 2.3.1 The problem with the concept of society 29 17. 2.3.2 The problem with the concept of city 31 2.4 The process of production of space . 31 18. 2.4.1 Space as a product of social system . 32 19. 2.4.2 Developing the notion of place using the concept of space by Lefebvre 34 2.5 The relation of social system and physical space: linear? . 35 3.AN OVERVIEW OF THE SITE – UZAN BAZAR, GUWAHATI. 37 3.1Historical Evolution 37 20. 3.1.1 5th century- 12th century AD 37 21. 3.1.2 17th century- 21st century AD 38 3.2 Why Guwahati? 39 3.3 The Historical evidences considered in the study . 40 22. 3.3.1 Guwahati Municipal Area 40 23. 3.3.2The Birth of Uzan Bazar . 41 24. 3.3.3 The royal heritage of Uzan Bazar 41 25. 3.3.3 Planned Area of the City 42 26. 3.3.4 The Ghats 43 27. 3.3.5 Railways 44 28. 3.3.6 The Roads 44 29. 3.3.7 Fish Market Supply and Operation 45 3.4 Communities 46 4. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK . 49 4.1 Findings and Analysis 49 4.2 Indices 50 30. 1. Social Interaction Index 50 31. 2. Historical Evidence Index . 51 32. 3. Community Diversity Index 51 33. Influence Index 52 4.3 On site analysis . 52 34. 4.3.1 Macro Urban form and social conditions 52 35. 4.3.2Micro Urban Form and Social Conditions . 59 4.4 Summarizing the findings of all the relationship studies . 68 5. CONCLUSION 73 5.1 Site specific . 73 5.2 General Conclusion 74 5.3 Practical extension of the study: The way ahead 75 REFERENCES 79 APPENDICES . 81 ER -