Learning from Delhi

Name: Learning from Delhi
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781409401025
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Dispersed Initiatives in Changing Urban Landscapes

By Written by Maurice Mitchell and Shamoon Patwari

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Learning from Delhi examines the tensions between rigid urban planning and the dynamic, often informal, growth of illegal settlements in rapidly expanding cities. The book explores how traditional local practices clash with sudden changes driven by emergencies, modernisation, environmental issues, and global forces. It highlights the challenges faced by third world cities that lack social welfare and social housing, emphasising the resilience and adaptability of urban inhabitants against standardised control.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in urban studies, architecture, and social dynamics within rapidly growing cities, particularly those focusing on the Global South and informal settlements.

Based on a course run by the London Metropolitan University School of Architecture, in which students produce schemes from research undertaken during field trips to India, this title provides a comprehensive review of the course and of the schemes produced since 2002, and argues the value of linking practical projects with education in the studio.

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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. These efforts to control by physical planning become redundant as soon as they are enacted.

In most third world cities, there is little social welfare and almost no attempt at social housing.

Learning from Delhi by Maurice Mitchell and Shamoon Patwari offers insightful exploration of these themes, emphasising the dynamic nature of city development in contrast to rigid planning methodologies.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781409401025

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 December 2010

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 218.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 1194g

Pages: 322

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature Shamoon Patwari Written by Maurice Mitchell

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.