People's spaces: coping, familiarizing, creating
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 Slimova -- 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.