People's spaces: coping, familiarizing, creating / Nihal perera

By:

Perera, Nihal

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge, 2016. New York:Description: xiii, 246 pISBN:

9780415720298

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

304.2 PER-P

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB D-2	Non Fiction	304.2 PER-P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		010167

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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.

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