Learning from Delhi: Dispersed Initiatives in Changing Urban Landscapes - Softcover

Mitchell, Written By Maurice; Patwari, Shamoon

 
9781409401025: Learning from Delhi: Dispersed Initiatives in Changing Urban Landscapes
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ISBN 10: 1409401022 ISBN 13: 9781409401025
Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

The inflexibility of modern urban planning, which seeks to determine the activities of urban inhabitants and standardise everyday city life, is challenged by the unstoppable organic growth of illegal settlements. In rapidly expanding cities, issues of continuity with local traditions, local conditions and local ways of working are juxtaposed with those of abrupt change due to emergency, reaction to modernity, environmental degradation, global market forces and global technological imperatives to make efforts to control by physical planning redundant as soon as they are enacted. In most third world cities there is little social welfare and almost no attempt at social housing.

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About the Author

Maurice Mitchell is Reader at the Department of Architecture and Spatial Design at London Metropolitan University. He has also taught at the Architectural Association, Oxford Brookes University and the Development Planning Unit, University College London.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1409401022
ISBN 13 
9781409401025
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
322

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