James Heitzman

The City in South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With case studies in each chapter focusing on specific cities, and including maps and photographs, this book is a comprehensive survey of urbanization in South Asia during the last 5000 years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134289622
• Artikelnr.: 38255307

Autorenporträt

James Heitzman is the author of Gifts of Power: Lordship in an Early Indian State and Network City: Planning the Information Society in Bangalore. He currently divides his time between Davis, California and Bangalore, India, where he is co-founder of Nagara, a trust devoted to urban affairs.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Ancient Heritage 2. The Sacred City and the Fort 3. Emporiums
Empire
and the Early Colonial Presence 4. Space
Economy and Public Culture in the Colonial City 5. Language of Space in the Contemporary City