Kolkata - The Colonial City in Transition

Name: Kolkata - The Colonial City in Transition | Reflections in Geographies of Urban India
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Reflections in Geographies of Urban India

Sumana Bandyopadhyay(Herausgeber*in)

Routledge India (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 20. Dezember 2022

394 Seiten

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This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India in terms of the physical, economic, social, political, and environmental aspects of urban geography, and focuses upon the inherent processes that impact its transformation. It discusses different facets of urban geography and highlights the contemporary challenges of a major primate city in South Asia, which represents the conflicts between the traditional and the modern, the rich and the poor, the skyscrapers and the shanties. With its detailed empirical research and mapping exercises based on real-time remote sensing data, the book offers an understanding of a range of contemporary urban issues. It examines the spatial consequences of urban sprawl, land-use changes, ecological crisis, climate change, critical disasters, dynamics of the peri-urban interface, neighborhood restructuring, debates around heritage conservation, housing poverty, gray spaces, governance and the political landscape of the city.

This book will be useful to students, teachers, and researchers of geography, especially human geography and urban geography, urban studies, urban development and planning, regional planning, social geography, governance, ecology, economics, and South Asian studies. It will also benefit urban planners, development professionals, and those interested in the study of the city of Kolkata and its transformations.

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'In today's climate-risked and uncertain world, the past and present of the city must be understood. This learning will determine the practice of sustainability and liveability in our habitats. This book is that story of transition, of one of the greatest cities of our world. It needs to be read so that we can know the why and what of Kolkata and how it must evolve in the future.'

Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India

'In capturing the dynamics of Kolkata through history, spatial fragmentation, architectural transformation, waves of migration, displacements, environmental challenges, development deficits and deprivation, employing deductive and inductive tools of analysis, the volume does not lose emotion, passion and cultural context. It talks of the past not just to reminiscence its glory but to contextualize the present and underline the need to transcend a few features to strengthen the human face of the city.'

Amitabh Kundu, Distinguished Fellow, Research Information System for Developing Countries; Senior Fellow, Sustainable Cities and Transport program, WRI Indi; and former Professor and Dean, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

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