Nihal Perera

People's Spaces (eBook, PDF)

Coping, Familiarizing, Creating

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Produktbeschreibung

People's Spaces attempts to understand the struggle between people and institutions in the spaces they make by investigating individual's diverse approaches in reconciling the difference between their spatial needs and spatial availability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317962595
• Artikelnr.: 44014147

Autorenporträt

Nihal Perera is Professor of Urban Planning at Ball State University and Director of CapAsia. He has taught in China, Germany, India, Italy, and Sri Lanka. The two-time Fulbright Scholar was also Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. His publications include Decolonizing Ceylon and Transforming Asian Cities.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Seeing and Acknowledging People's Spaces: Deprivations and
Challenges 1. Indigenizing the Colonial City: The Ceylonese Transformation
of 19th-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 Resistance to Familiarization: Living in the
World Heritage Site at Galle Fort (with Sanjeewani Habarakada) 5. Beginning
Spaces: Young People's Struggles for Dwellings in Tashkent (with Hikoyat
Salimova) 6. Spaces of Recovery: Rebuilding Lives after the Tsunami in
Kalametiya 7. Defending 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 Environment in Gangtok (with Sweata Pradhan) 10. People's
Neighborhood Center: The Handiya in Sri Lanka (with Nirmani Liyanage)
Conclusions: Production of Social Space: From Coping with Extant Spaces to
Creating Their Own