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PLANNING THE CITY: URBANIZATION AND REFORM IN CALCUTTA, C. By Partho Datta *VG+*
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- ISBN-10
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- Book Title
- Planning the City: Urbanization and Reform in Calcutta, c. 1800 -
- ISBN
- 9788189487904
- Subject Area
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Publication Name
- Planning the City : Urbanization and Reform in Calcutta, C. 1800-C. 1940
- Publisher
- Tulika Print Communication Services Pvt., The Limited
- Item Length
- 1 in
- Subject
- Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Asia / India & South Asia, Modern / 19th Century, Sociology / Urban
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0.1 in
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In 1820, an unusual letter was published in the Bengali newspaper Samachar Darpan. It was a plaintive appeal from the rats of the city of Calcutta saying they were being unfairly displaced from their ancient dwellings. Calcutta was indeed going through momentous changes - new roads and neighborhoods were being planned, channels for draining were being dug, new structures were coming up and existing buildings refurbished. These changes were not random. A new spatial order was coming into its own backed by the powerful ideology of town planning. Planning encompassed not only the regulation of physical spaces, but also the multiple concerns of health, policing, and commerce. Planning happened largely in the guise of 'improvement' and the intervention of the colonial government was important. Despite resistance and skepticism, and some reversals, the task of imposing a rational urban order on the city continued. The history of this colonial initiative can be traced through three sets of archival documents which have so far been sparingly used by historians of Calcutta. Lord Wellesley began the process with his prescriptive Minute on Calcutta in 1803, which led to the setting up of the Lottery Committee in 1817 - so called because funds for the city were raised through public lotteries. The investigation of the Fever Hospital Commission followed in the 1830s and, as the name suggests, the locations of epidemic fevers determined areas for urban restructuring. The Municipality, throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, had to reckon with bustis which housed the labouring poor. But it was only after the plague epidemic in 1897 that an autonomous organization to plan the city came into being: the Calcutta Improvement Trust was set up in 1911.This book examines and assesses the continuity of colonial urban policy and its impact, particularly in terms of the social costs to the displaced population and its implications for understanding planning history generally.
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Tulika Print Communication Services Pvt., The Limited
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8189487906
ISBN-13
9788189487904
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Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Planning the City : Urbanization and Reform in Calcutta, C. 1800-C. 1940
Publication Year
2012
Subject
Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Asia / India & South Asia, Modern / 19th Century, Sociology / Urban
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Social Science, Political Science
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
25.8 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.7 in
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2012-335986
Dewey Edition
23
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The book under review steps outside these narratives of the defiance and failures of planning to make it central case that 'Colonial Calcutta had not been planned, it had been severely planned. If Calcutta has not figured as an important example and precedent in planning history, with Paris, London, Chicago and New Delhi, it is because a connected history of Calcutta planning has not been written., The book may be read on two levels: as a deeply researched history of Calcutta, and as a more general, thesis on planning under colonial conditions.... The book is well-edited and handsomely produced adding to the pleasure of reading this seriously researched and wonderfully documented history. Both the author and the publisher desrve our fulsome praise for this.
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Scholarly & Professional
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
711.40954147
Lc Classification Number
Ht169.A-Zi.X2a-.X2zc
Copyright Date
2012
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