In the images of development city design in the Global South / Tridib Banerjee, Foreword by Manuel Castells.

Author/creator Banerjee, Tridib
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
Descriptionxviii, 497 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesUrban and industrial environments
Contents Looking back from Vila Dunia -- The fable of bell curves -- Modernity and other images of development -- Urban form and urbanism -- The canonical city -- Community, piety, autopoiesis, and aesthetics -- The colonial project -- Postcolonial utopias -- Import of design paradigms -- The spectacle of poverty and inequality -- The Faustian imperative -- The place of Medina in a global economy -- Looking ahead from Vila Dunia.
Abstract "Magisterial and critical study of city design in the Global South, tracing the historical, economic, political, and ideological forces influencing development up to the present"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 443-481) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2020005066
ISBN9780262044707 (hardcover)

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