Indigenous modernities :

Hosagrahar, Jyoti.

Indigenous modernities : negotiating architecture and urbanism Jyoti Hosagrahar. - 1st Indian reprint. - London : Routledge, 2005. - xiii, 234 p. ill., maps, plans ; 24 cm. - The Architext series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:
1. Becoming 'Modern'
2. Fragmenting Domestic Landscapes: From Mansions to Margins
3. Negotiating Streets and Squares: Spatial Culture in the Public Realm
4. Sanitizing Neighborhoods: Geographies of Health.
5. Beyond the Walls: Commerce of Urban Expansion
6. Imagining Modernity: Symbolic Terrains of Housing
7. Recovering an Urban Past.

The author examines Delhi, India, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as it developed from a walled city into a fragmented metropolis. --Book Cover.

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Architecture--History--Delhi--India --19th century.
Architecture--History--Delhi--India --20th century.
City planning--History--India --Delhi--19th century.
City planning--History--India --Delhi--20th century.


Delhi (India)--History.

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