Building Jaipur
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Building Jaipur
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Author : Vibhuti Sachdev
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2002
Building Jaipur written by Vibhuti Sachdev and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
An architectural biography of Jaipur, and a concise history of Indian architectural theory over the last 300 years.
Building Jaipur
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Building Jaipur written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of India's most famous cities, and is renowned for its palaces and museums, its craft traditions and its distinctive pink shops and houses. A planned city within walls, it was built in pre-modern times according to a distincti.
The Golden Triangle
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Author : Arthur Asa Berger
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2011-12-31
The Golden Triangle written by Arthur Asa Berger and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-31 with Social Science categories.
This book offers a semiotically informed ethnographic study of contemporary culture in Rajasthan and in India generally. It adapts the methodology of analyzing cultures found in Roland Barthes' semiotic portrait of Japanese culture, Empire of Signs, but adds an analysis of lifestyles as explicated in the work of social anthropologist Mary Douglas, political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, and a number of other social scientists. This manuscript is, at first, a guide to Rajasthan and India, and it is that but it is also more in that it considers tourism from both an anthropological and sociological level. Berger begins with statistics on tourism and other aspects of life in Rajasthan and India, and then considers how tourism in India compares with tourism in other important tourism destinations. He refers to the "Imaginary India" as the picture created in tourists' minds with the help of guidebooks, media, and the Internet before they actually travel to India. He then discusses these representations and how they are actually different from the country itself. The trip itself then becomes the search for the authentic India--the goal is to find places before they are discovered. He calls this "Semiotic Rajasthan," where the representations are compared to actuality. After offering a discussion of semiotic theory, it interprets and analyzes a number of important aspects of Rajasthani and Indian culture such as: the Taj Mahal, the Palace of Winds in Jaipur, the notorious rat temple in Deshnok, and sacred cows. Lastly, he discusses his own trip and how the impact of Rajasthan did not fully register until he returned home. This volume's strength lies in the author's ability to write in an accessible manner, assemble the project in an interesting way, and include only that information which will guide the reader along the narrative trail. While this manuscript really is a guidebook to Rajasthan, it could also serve as a good introduction to ethnography for beginning students and an interested general audience. It moves from basic explanations, such as that of semiotics, to complex applications all with the grace of good story telling.
Urban Planning And Its Discontents
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Author : Darshini Mahadevia
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-10-16
Urban Planning And Its Discontents written by Darshini Mahadevia and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-16 with Architecture categories.
This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice. Urban planning in India means many things to city residents and is used generically to include all interventions in the cities, such as public policy design, institutional design, spatial and territorial plans, infrastructure plans, public administration, community participation, and their implementation through programmes, schemes, and projects. While urban planning is expected to meet the global development agendas of equitable and just urbanisation, climate change and sustainable development goals (SDGs), in practice it has largely remained confined to statutory spatial planning represented by ‘Master Plan’ or ‘Comprehensive Plan’. This volume delves into this world of urban planning as critical insiders to see how it works in India, analysing the city level spatial plans, the Master or Development Plans, of select cities to assess whether these are capable of addressing the global agendas and coordinate with all other plans prepared for the city. It examines whether it would work in reference to the contemporary issues, SDGs, and global agendas, and discusses strategies on how to make it work better. It also deals with each of the above stated criticisms of the practice and examines the debates, data, approaches, agendas, plans, and the future of urban planning in India. This book comes in at a time when the urban planners and policy makers have themselves begun to discuss a need to relook at urban planning practices and tools to meet the future requirements of urbanisation in India. It will be a useful reference volume for the students, scholars and practitioners alike, and be of interest to researchers and students of urban planning, architecture, public administration, civil engineering, geography, economics, and sociology. It will also be useful for policy makers and professionals working in the areas of town and country planning.
Rethinking A Millennium
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Author : Rajat Datta
language : en
Publisher: Aakar Books
Release Date : 2008
Rethinking A Millennium written by Rajat Datta and has been published by Aakar Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with India categories.
This book is a collection of essays by eminent historians exploring a millennium of India s history between the eighth and the eighteenth century, conventionally understood as early medieval and medieval India. Though these terms are subjected to critical
The Astrological Analysis Of Earthquake
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Author : Dr. Bhojraj Dwivedi
language : en
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Release Date :
The Astrological Analysis Of Earthquake written by Dr. Bhojraj Dwivedi and has been published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Dr. Bhojraj Dwivedi is a renowned author of astrology, occult science and spiritual knowledge. He has written more than 128 books on the subject that plays an important role to spread the knowledge of Indian Astrology. THE ASTROLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF EARTHQUAKE- If not impossible but it is quite difficult to predict the natural calamities. Though our ancient books and sciences are able to pave the way to predict such natural calamities. Recently we witnessed the Gujarat earthquake disaster that is one of mightiest earthquake of Indian history. The present book discusses Astrological Analysis of Earthquake minutely. So not only we shall be able to predict such natural calamities, but also we can employ preventive measures. The salient feature of the book are Dalai Lama's predictions, earthquake references of Varahmihir and in depth horoscopic analysis of major earthquakes. The book provides enough knowledge about the earthquakes and its science. So it will be proved as a milestone in its field.
Jaipur
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Author : ALAIN. CATALAA BORIE (FRANCOISE. PAPILLAULT, REMI.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Jaipur written by ALAIN. CATALAA BORIE (FRANCOISE. PAPILLAULT, REMI.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
One Idea Many Plans
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Author : Sanjeev Vidyarthi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-02-11
One Idea Many Plans written by Sanjeev Vidyarthi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-11 with Architecture categories.
Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities. Tracking the development of American "neighborhood unit" concept in independent India’s planning practice and literature—from the national level policies to on-the-ground applications in the city of Jaipur—Vidyarthi explains how a host of actors including neighborhood residents, squatters, politicians and developers made different kinds of plans that assimilated the design concept in line with their practical concerns and cultural preferences creating unique variants of neighborhood urbanism over time. One Idea, Many Plans counters misguided characterization of these unforeseen efforts as ‘unauthorized’ by state authorities. It shows how the frequently informal and tacit plans were neither arbitrary actions nor aimless subversions but purposeful future-oriented efforts that shaped the envisaged sociality and spatiality of Indian cities in more meaningful ways than the official master plans promoting planned neighborhoods. Carefully illustrating the different kinds of plans local actors use to guide incremental adaptation, improvement and investment, Vidyarthi offers insights about how we might improve formal plan making. Scholars, students and professional practitioners interested in different regions of the global south would find these lessons useful as a new generation of city design ideas like sustainability and new urbanism gain traction in an increasingly globalized World.
India
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Author : Peter Scriver
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2015-02-15
India written by Peter Scriver and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-15 with Architecture categories.
A place of astonishing contrasts, India is home to some of the world’s most ancient architectures as well as some of its most modern. It was the focus of some of the most important works created by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, among other lesser-known masters, and it is regarded by many as one of the key sites of mid-twentieth century architectural design. As Peter Scriver and Amit Srivastava show in this book, however, India’s history of modern architecture began long before the nation’s independence as a modern state in 1947. Going back to the nineteenth century, Scriver and Srivastava look at the beginnings of modernism in colonial India and the ways that public works and patronage fostered new design practices that directly challenged the social order and values invested in the building traditions of the past. They then trace how India’s architecture embodies the dramatic shifts in Indian society and culture during the last century. Making sense of a broad range of sources, from private papers and photographic collections to the extensive records of the Indian Public Works Department, they provide the most rounded account of modern architecture in India that has yet been available.
Global Goods And The Country House
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Author : Jon Stobart
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2023-11-20
Global Goods And The Country House written by Jon Stobart and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-20 with History categories.
Global goods were central to the material culture of eighteenth-century country houses. Across Europe, mahogany furniture, Chinese wallpapers and Indian textiles formed the backdrop to genteel practices of drinking sweetened coffee, tea and chocolate from Chinese porcelain. They tied these houses and their wealthy owners into global systems of supply and the processes of colonialism and empire. Global Goods and the Country House builds on these narratives, and then challenges them by decentring our perspective. It offers a comparative framework that explores the definition, ownership and meaning of global goods outside the usual context of European imperial powers. What were global goods and what did they mean for wealthy landowners in places at the ‘periphery’ of Europe (Sweden and Wallachia), in the British colonies of North America and the Caribbean, or in the extra-colonial context (Japan or Rajasthan)? By addressing these questions, this volume offers fresh insights into the multi-directional flow of goods and cultures that enmeshed the eighteenth-century world. And by placing these goods in their specific material context - from the English country house to the princely palaces of Rajasthan - we gain a better understanding of their use and meaning, and of their role in linking the global and the local.