Main entry:

Correa, Charles, 1930-2015, author.

Title & Author:

A place in the shade : the new landscape & other essays / Charles Correa.

Publication:

Ostfildern : Hatje/Cantz, [2012].
©2012

Description:

vii, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-243).
Goa: Planning for Tourism -- The Point of Balance -- Public Transport as DNA -- The Tragedy of Tulsi Pipe Road -- Tehelka Interview: Managing Our Cities -- The Ideal City -- An Urban Manifesto -- Learning from Ekalavya -- Make sure its Your Train -- In search of Brunel -- The Making of the Mahatma -- The Quest for the Hindu Garden -- Roots and Bridges -- Ayodhya: An Architecture that unites us -- Looking Back, Looking Forward -- Introduction to the Original Edition of 1985 -- Urbanization -- Space as a Resource -- Equity -- Mobility -- Great City ... Terrible Place -- Disaggregating the Numbers -- Politic Will -- Scanning the Options.

Summary:

Over the last fifty years, Charles Correa (b. 1930 in Secunderabad), has been of decisive importance to architecture in post-Independence India. He has also been a pioneer in addressing crucial issues of housing and urbanisation in the Third World, including the proliferation of squatters. This selection of essays and lectures covers a wide spectrum of themes, from the metaphysical to the pragmatic, on a variety of subjects - including architecture, urban planning, landscape, and individuals as diverse as Corbusier, Brunel and Mahatma Gandhi. Also incorporated is a reprint of his seminal 1985 book, long out of print, on Third World urbanisation 'The New Landscape'. Correa has won the highest honours of his profession, including the Gold Medals of the RIBA, the UIA and the IIA, as well as the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and the Praemium Imperiale of Japan.

ISBN:

9783775734011
3775734015

Subject:

Architecture India.
City planning India.
Sociology, Urban India.
Architecture Inde.
Sociologie urbaine Inde.
Architecture.
City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Architektur
Verstädterung
Stadsplanering.
Arkitektur.
Indien.
India.
Entwicklungsländer

Form/genre:

Essays.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279623
Call No.: BIB 215745
Status: Available