People's spaces: coping, familiarizing, creating

by Perera, Nihal

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Title Statements

Full title :People's spaces : coping, familiarizing, creating / Nihal Perera.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781315867069, 1315867060, 9781317962595, 1317962591, 9781317962588, 1317962583
oclc:ocn927103734
LC Classification:HM861
Dewey Decimal:304.2

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Seeing and Engaging People's Spaces: Deprivations and Challenges; 1 Indigenizing the Colonial City: The Ceylonese Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Colombo; 2 Feminizing the White Male City: Women Gaining Access to Colonial Colombo; 3 Spaces of Survival: People's Adaptation of a War Zone in Sri Lanka; 4 From Resisting to Familiarizing Impositions: Living in the World Heritage Site at Galle Fort, Sri Lanka; 5 Beginning Spaces: Young People's Struggles for Dwellings in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

6 Spaces of Recovery: Rebuilding Lives after the Tsunami in Kalametiya7 Protecting the Habitat: Redevelopment, Illegibility, and the Strength of Dharavi; 8 Spaces of Modernity: Daanchi between Vernacular and Modern; 9 Everyday Building: The Production of the Middle-ClassBuilt-Environmentin Gangtok, India; 10 People's Neighborhood Center: Handiya in Sri Lanka; 11 Conclusions: Production of Social Space: From Coping with Provided and Imposed Spaces to Creating Their Own; Index.

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Cultural geography Cultural geography -- Developing countr… developing countries Human Settlements Human settlements -- Developing countri… Social ecology Social ecology -- Developing countries SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography spatial behavior Spatial behavior -- Developing countries