Of Greater Dignity Than Riches: Austerity & Housing Design in India - Couverture rigide

Karim, Farhan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0822965690 ISBN 13 : 9780822965695

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

Synopsis

Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s—after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease—a time when architects, engineers, and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India’s urban poor and industrial workers. As Farhan Karim argues, economic scarcity became a central inspiration for architectural modernism in the subcontinent. As India moved from colonial rule to independence, the Indian government, business entities, international NGOs, and intergovernmental agencies took major initiatives to modernize housing conditions and the domestic environment of the state’s low-income population. Of Greater Dignity than Riches traces multiple international origins of austerity as an essential ingredient of postcolonial development. By prescribing model villages, communities, and ideal houses for the working class, this project of austerity eventually reduced poverty into a stylized architectural representation. In this rich and original study, Karim explains the postwar and postcolonial history of low-cost housing as an intertwined process of global transferences of knowledge, Cold War cultural politics, postcolonial nationalism, and the politics of economic development.

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À propos de l'auteur

Farhan Karim is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Kansas. He has worked as an architect, interior designer, and furniture designer in Bangladesh and Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822965690
• ISBN 13: 9780822965695
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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