Tridib Banerjee

In the Images of Development (eBook, ePUB)

City Design in the Global South

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The urban legacy of the Global South since the colonial era and how sustainable development and environmental and social justice can be achieved. Remarkably little of the expansive literature on development and globalization considers actual urban form and the physical design of cities as outcomes of these phenomena. The development that has shaped historic transformations in urban form and urbanism--and the consequent human experiences--remains largely unexplored. In this book, Tridib Banerjee fills this void by linking the idea of development with those of urbanism, urban form, and urban design, focusing primarily on the contemporary cities in the developing world--the Global South--and their intrinsic prospects in city design. Further, he examines the endogenous possibilities for the future design of these cities that may address growing inequality and the environmental crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262361125
• Artikelnr.: 60131076

Autorenporträt

Tridib Banerjee is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy in the Sol Price School of Public Policy, at the University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

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
III 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
Referenced 443
Index 483