Radical City

Imagining Possibilities for the Indian City
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-93-5388-714-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

In the next few decades a billion people will be urbanised. There will be over 40 megacities—more than 10 million inhabitants—most of which will be located in the 'global south', especially China and India. Cities already stretched to the seams will explode. The accelerated global warming and extreme weather events will only make the situation worse resulting in unimaginable consequences. Radical City: Imagining Possibilities for the Indian City argues that we should urgently reflect on the question raised by the luminaries of Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) nearly a century back, 'Should our cities survive?', because the Functional City—a conglomeration with differentiated zones of activity and transportation of people and materials between the zones—invented by CIAM has outlived its usefulness.

Rethinking the city, therefore, cannot be the province of planners and technocrats alone. Instead, this book brings together artists, architects, writers, poets, designers, urban planners, social scientists, humanists and others to think about the city and its possibilities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polsani, Pithamber R.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Should Our Cities Survive? - Pithamber R. Polsani
PART I A Field of Inspirations
The City as Stage - Sudhanva Deshpande
‘Belonging’ in a City of Unbelongers - Namrata Toraskar
City: The Perceptual Field of Inspirations - Kiranmayi Indraganti
Non-human Nature and City Life: Exploring the Radical Middle Ground - Savyasaachi
PART II Palimpsest of Possibilities
What Is a City - Sohail Hashmi
City as Organic Patchwork, City as Streamlined Machine - Neelkanth Chhaya
Lucknow Unrestrained: Palimpsest of Incongruous Possibilities - Sonal Mithal, Arul Paul and Fahad Zuberi
PART III Fractured Realities
Art Deco Bombay: The Radical Re-imagination of the City through Its Aesthetics - Mustansir Dalvi
Land(e)scapes of Utopia: Reconciling Old Ways of Living in New Towns in India - Rachna Mehra
Ruinous Imaginations - Pithamber R. Polsani
PART IV Material Manifestations
City in Steel and Timber - Sankalpa
Death of Brick: Rise of the Vertical City - Priya Joseph
Advertising RCC: Material Mainstreaming in Pre-independence India - Gauri Bharat
PART V Potentialities and Probabilities
Spontaneous Urbanisation - M. N. Ashish Ganju
Governance of Cities from the 74th Amendment to Special Purpose Vehicles - Tikender Singh Panwar
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Polsani, Pithamber R.
Pithamber R. Polsani is a faculty member and currently the Dean at the School of Advanced Studies and Research, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bengaluru, India. His education and work traverses diverse disciplines: philosophy, education, technology, management, literature, semiotics, media, psychoanalysis, art and Spanish language. Synthesizing insights from multiple domains, his research addresses conceptual and practical problems in the realms of the history of design ideas, vernacular design, urbanism and philosophies of urban design. Dr Polsani has led learning Academies for Royal Bank of Scotland and Nokia Siemens Networks, established a Virtual University at Satyam Computer Services and taught at the University of Arizona, Bates College & Delhi University. Some of his publications include, “Shadows Without Bodies: How was Modernism in India Art,” Indian Cultural Forum, 2017, “From the Remnants of Reality: Art and Practice of Suresh Kumar G.” Unbound, 2016, “The Image in a Fatal Kiss: Dalí, Lacan and the Paranoiac Representation”, “Like A Lizard That Junks its Tail in Distress: Homer Simpson is no Antigone”, The Symptom, 2003; “Use and Abuse of Learning Objects”, Journal of Digital Information, 2003; Bucknell Review, 2001 “Riding the Satellite to the Millennium”, C-Theory, 1998.