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020 _a9780262044707
082 _a307.1216
_bBAN
100 _aBanerjee, Tridib
_92251
245 _aIn the images of development : city design in the global South
260 _aLondon
_bMIT Press
_c2021
300 _axviii,497,ip.
440 _aUrban and Industrial Environments Ed. by Robert Gottlied & Henry R. Luce
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505 _aContents Foreword by Manuel Castells ix Preface xi 1 Looking Back from Vila Dunia 1 I Development and Urbanism 2 The Fable of Bell Curves 23 3 Modernity and Other Images of Development 53 4 Urban Form and Urbanism 69 II Precolonial and Colonial Legacies 5 The Canonical City 95 6 Piety, Community, Autopoiesis, and Aesthetics 119 7 The Colonial Project 153 Ill The Postcolonial Era 8 Postcolonial Utopias 197 9 Import of Design Paradigms 229 10 The Spectacle of Poverty and Inequality 249 11 The Faustian Imperative 273 12 The Place of Medina 307 13 Looking Ahead from Vila Dunia 325 Epilogue: Best Practices 357 Notes 385 References 443 Index 483
890 _aUK
891 _aGeneral
942 _2ddc
999 _c69200
_d69200
650 _aEuropeans--Social life and customs
_aUrban policy
_aUrbanization
_aDeveloping countries
_aCity planning
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