Suchergebnisse

Introduction: an overview of the colonial origin of Calcutta -- Mapping the pattern of urbanization in history: the Calcutta chapter -- A comparative understanding of the growth of the three colonial cities: Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay -- Revolution on the riverbank: a study of the creation of a mankind necessary for urbanization -- Geopolitics of early urbanization in Calcutta, 1698-1757 -- Who was the real founder of Calcutta?: Between two perspectives -- How Calcutta superseded interior towns -- The logic of urbanization -- Municipal administration -- Making a pilgrim centre: Kalighat -- Challenges of an urban growth -- The city assumes form -- The city in hindsight: some observations in conclusion.

Kaliprasanna Sinha's Hutom Pyanchar Naksha (1861) is justly famous for its racy and vibrant depiction of life in nineteenth-century Calcutta. Ostensibly modelled on the Sketches by Boz of Charles Dickens, a marvellously realistic portrayal of the seamier side of everyday life in London, Hutom's sketches, however, do not describe the everyday life of the colonial capital of British India. Instead, it presents a gallery of effervescent portrayals of festivals—of people in masks, dressed up to enjoy themselves. For the colonised population of the city, a large part of everyday time has been surrendered to the drudgery of 'the office'; only the time of the festival is its own. Even in citing its provenance, Hutom parodies Boz.

According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.

"Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis"--

Colonial Latin American societies have generally been presented as systems of estates following forms that were firmly entrenched in Europe before the Spanish conquest in America, an estate being "a legally defined segment of the population of a society which has distinctive rights and duties established by law" (Lenski 1966:77). Lyle McAlister suggests that the American equivalent of a threefold European system of noble—clergy—commoner estates was represented by broad racial classifications: Spaniards—Castas—Indians.

William J. Glover investigates the traditions that shaped colonial Lahore, focusing on the conviction that both British and Indian actors who implemented urbanization shared: that the material fabric of the city could lead to social and moral improvement. Glover reveals that urban change in colonial India was not a monolithic process and establishes Lahore as a key site for understanding the genealogy of modern global urbanism.

'Decolonizing the Colonial City' investigates the role of class, colour, race, & culture in the changing social stratification & spatial patterning of Kingston, Jamaica since independence. The book concludes with a comparison with the post-colonial urban problems of South Africa & Brazil.