Urban India : cultural heritage, past and present / Renate Bornberg.
2023
HT384.I4
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Title
Urban India : cultural heritage, past and present / Renate Bornberg.
ISBN
9783031237379 (electronic bk.)
3031237374 (electronic bk.)
3031237366
9783031237362
3031237374 (electronic bk.)
3031237366
9783031237362
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-23737-9 doi
Call Number
HT384.I4
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.760954
Summary
This book discusses the importance of socio-spatial patterns in cities that are embedded in the cultural heritage and self-understanding of a society, showing that Indian cities follow different urban concepts. In nine episodes (nine is a sacred figure), it highlights the principal influences and social impacts on cities from ancient times to contemporary city developments. As such, it provides planners and architects with insights that can easily be applied in contemporary cities and towns and help foster Indias cultural heritagea much-needed, but little-discussed approach. Indian cities are the result of various factors, some imposed, others following local traditions that shaped them. They were founded around social needs, landscape conditions and production routines, as well as the religious influences of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity and animism. However, Western town-planning models are often implemented, blurring the traditional way of life in cities. For sustainable town development, it is of key importance to find solutions that deal with Indian city models.
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Series
Cities, heritage and transformation.
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URBAN INDIA.
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Table of Contents
India in nine episodes
India some insights
Planning theories
Of ancient times
At home
Public spaces
Gods and the city
Kings and the city
Muslims and the city
The British and the city
Outsiders and the city.
India some insights
Planning theories
Of ancient times
At home
Public spaces
Gods and the city
Kings and the city
Muslims and the city
The British and the city
Outsiders and the city.