Indigenous modernities: negotiating architecture and urbanism

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This book examines the ways in which a historic, and so-called 'traditional' city - Delhi - quietly mutated into one that was modern in its own terms not only in form but also in its use and meaning.

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Full title :Indigenous modernities : negotiating architecture and urbanism / Jyoti Hosagrahar.

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This book examines the ways in which a historic, and so-called 'traditional' city - Delhi - quietly mutated into one that was modern in its own terms not only in form but also in its use and meaning.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

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Description based upon print version of record.

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Description:1 online resource (249 p.).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1134348215, 9781134348213, 9786610244140, 6610244146, 1280244143, 9781280244148, 0203022734, 9780203022733
oclc:on1316591204
LC Classification:NA1508.D5
Dewey Decimal:720.954560904

Introduction : Becoming 'modern' -- Fragmented domestic landscapes: from mansions to margins -- Negotiating streets and squares: spatial culture in the public realm -- Sanitizing neighborhoods: geographies of health -- Beyond the walls: commerce of urban expansion -- Imagining modernity: symbolic terrains of housing -- Recovering an urban past.

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