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  title info:
    title: Unlearning the city
    sub title: infrastructure in a new optical field
  name:
    name part: Chattopadhyay, Swati
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2012
    copyright date: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiii, 297 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
  abstract: Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe and debate the vital component of urban life that is lived on the streets of cities and towns. Swati Chattopadhyay has written a nuanced argument for a new vocabulary of the city in Unlearning the City, proposing a way of analyzing the materiality of the urban that captures the ever-changing element of human experience.Urban life is intrinsically messy and usually refuses to conform to the rigid views laid down in much of urban studies theory. Chattopadhyay looks at urban life in India with a fresh perspective that incorporates the everyday and the unstructured. As the first to apply the theories of subalternity for an understanding of urban history, Chattopadhyay provides an in-depth study of vehicular art, street cricket, political wall writing, and religious festivities that link the visual and spatial attributes of these popular cultural forms with the imagination and practices of urban life. She contends that these practices have a direct impact on the configuration and knowledge of public space, and the political potential of the people inhabiting cities.Unlearning the City uses the popular culture of Indian cities to question the dominant conception of urban infrastructure and encourage a conceptual realignment in how the city is seen, discussed and even experienced.
  table of contents: Preface: Unlearning the City -- Analytic Index -- 1. Flows and Bumpy Roads -- 2. The Optical Field -- 3. Provincial Cosmopolitanism -- 4. Armature and Experience -- 5. Writing on the Walls -- 6. Auto-mobility -- 7. Fungible Geographies -- Conclusion: Infra-Structure.
  note: Swati Chattopadhyay.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: City and town life
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Public spaces
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: ARCHITECTURE / General
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
  classification: HT147.I4 C45 2012
  classification: 307.760954
  identifier: 9780816679317 (hardback)
  identifier: 0816679312 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780816679324 (pb)
  identifier: 0816679320 (pb)
  identifier: 2012029389
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120720
    record change date: 20151202173233.0
    record identifier: in00002812744