Blue infrastructures : natural history, political ecology and urban development in Kolkata

Blue infrastructures : natural history, political ecology and urban development in Kolkata / Jenia Mukherjee.

This book focuses on Kolkata, formerly the colonial capital of and currently a major megacity in India, in terms of its extensive blue infrastructures, i.e., its rivers, canals and wetlands as an integrated composite whole. It unfolds ways in which this reclaimed urban space could determine, and in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mukherjee, Jenia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, 2020.
Series:Exploring urban change in South Asia.
Subjects:
City planning > India > Kolkata.
Sociology.
History: specific events & topics.
Urban & municipal planning.
Asian history.
Social Science > Sociology > Urban.
History > General.
Science > Earth Sciences > Geography.
History > Asia > India & South Asia.
City planning
India > Kolkata
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The natural evolution of the urban
  • Tamed Interventions
  • Untamed practices
  • Disrupted networks
  • Transformed infrastructures
  • Polemics of planning, development and environment
  • Urban environmentalisms
  • Beyond declensionism, towards the useful narrative.

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