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Informationen zum Autor Tridib Banerjee is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy in the Sol Price School of Public Policy, at the University of Southern California. Klappentext The urban legacy of the Global South since the colonial era and how sustainable development and environmental and social justice can be achieved. Remarkably little of the expansive literature on development and globalization considers actual urban form and the physical design of cities as outcomes of these phenomena. The development that has shaped historic transformations in urban form and urbanism--and the consequent human experiences--remains largely unexplored. In this book, Tridib Banerjee fills this void by linking the idea of development with those of urbanism, urban form, and urban design, focusing primarily on the contemporary cities in the developing world--the Global South--and their intrinsic prospects in city design. Further, he examines the endogenous possibilities for the future design of these cities that may address growing inequality and the environmental crisis. Zusammenfassung The urban legacy of the Global South since the colonial era and how sustainable development and environmental and social justice can be achieved. Remarkably little of the expansive literature on development and globalization considers actual urban form and the physical design of cities as outcomes of these phenomena. The development that has shaped historic transformations in urban form and urbanism—and the consequent human experiences—remains largely unexplored. In this book, Tridib Banerjee fills this void by linking the idea of development with those of urbanism, urban form, and urban design, focusing primarily on the contemporary cities in the developing world—the Global South—and their intrinsic prospects in city design. Further, he examines the endogenous possibilities for the future design of these cities that may address growing inequality and the environmental crisis. Banerjee deftly traces the urban legacy of the Global South from the beginning of the colonial era, closely examining the economic, political, and ideological forces that influenced colonial and postcolonial development, drawing from relevant experiences of different cities in the developing world and discussing the arguments for the historic parity of these cities with their Western counterparts. Finally, Banerjee considers essential notions of future city design that are grounded in the critical challenges of sustainable development, equity, environmental and social justice, and diversity, and how such outcomes can be achieved. This book serves as the opening of a long overdue conversation among design, development, and planning scholars and practitioners, and those interested in the urban development of the Global South. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Manuel Castells ix Preface xi 1 Looking Back from Vila Dunia 1 I Development and Urbanism 2 The Fable of Bell Curves 23 3 Modernity and Other Images of Development 53 4 Urban Form and Urbanism 69 II Precolonial and Colonial Legacies 5 The Canonical City 95 6 Piety, Community, Autopoiesis, and Aesthetics 119 7 The Colonial Project 153 III The Postcolonial Era 8 Postcolonial Utopias 197 9 Import of Design Paradigms 229 10 The Spectacle of Poverty and Inequality 249 11 The Faustian Imperative 273 12 The Place of Medina 307 13 Looking Ahead from Vila Dunia 325 Epilogue: Best Practices 357 Notes 385 Referenced 443 Index 483...
