Main entry:

Banerjee, Tridib, author.

Title & Author:

In the images of development : city design in the global south / Tridib Banerjee ; foreword by Manuel Castells.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
©2021

Description:

xviii, 497 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm.

Series:

Urban and industrial environments

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-481) and index.
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.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9780262044707 hardcover
0262044706 hardcover

Subject:

City planning Developing countries.
Urbanization Developing countries.
Urban policy Developing countries.
City planning
Urban policy
Urbanization
Developing countries

Added entries:

Castells, Manuel, 1942- writer of foreword.
Urban and industrial environments.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315681
Call No.: 315681
Copy: 1
Status: Available