Imperial Designs and Indian Realities: The Planning of Bombay City, 1845-1875 9780195625837, 0195625838

Chinese Imperial City Planning 9780824841478

Chinese Imperial City Planning is the first synthesis of what is known from textual and archaeological evidence about ev

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Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor 9780295748504, 9780295748498, 9780295748511

Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrial

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Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor 9780295748511, 0295748516

Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrial

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Imperial expectations and realities: El Dorados, utopias and dystopias 9781784997090

A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception an

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The 1982–83 Bombay Textile Strike and the Unmaking of a Labourers’ City

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A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay 9780816670369, 9780816670376, 2010047979

It was the era of the Raj, and yet A Joint Enterprise reveals the unexpected role of native communities in the transform

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Tryst with Prosperity: Indian Business and the Bombay Plan of 1944 9789353053277

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Urban Futures: Planning for City Foresight and City Visions 9781447336297

Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expect

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The city in late Imperial China 9789576383106

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The Trouble with City Planning 9780300168778

After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a rare chance to rebuild, with an unprecedent

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