People's spaces: coping, familiarizing, creating /
Nihal perera
- New York: Routledge, 2016.
- xiii, 246 p.
Introduction: seeing and engaging people's spaces: deprivations and challenges -- 1. Indigenizing the colonial city: the Ceylonese transformation of nineteenth-century Colombo -- 2. Feminizing the white male city: women gaining access to colonial Colombo -- 3. Spaces of survival: people's adaptation of a war zone in Sri Lanka -- 4. From resisting to familiarizing impositions: living in the World Heritage Site at Galle Fort, Sri Lanka / with Sanjeewani Habarakada -- 5. Beginning spaces: young people's struggles for dwellings in Tashkent, Uzbekistan / with Hikoyat Salimova -- 6. Spaces of recovery: rebuilding lives after the tsunami in Kalametiya -- 7. Protecting the habitat: redevelopment, illegibility, and the strength of Dharavi -- 8. Spaces of modernity: Daanchi between vernacular and modern / with Gaurab Kc -- 9. Everyday building: the production of the middle-class built-environment in Gangtok, India / with Sweata Pradhan -- 10. People's neighborhood center:Handiya in Sri Lanka / with Nirmani Liyanage -- 11. Conclusions: production of social space: from coping with provided and imposed spaces to creating their own.
9780415720298
UD Social ecology -- Developing countries. Human settlements -- Developing countries.