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Title Religion and urbanism : reconceptualising sustainable cities for South Asia / edited by Yamini Narayanan
Published London : Routledge, 2016
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Series Routledge research in religion and development
Routledge research in religion and development.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Religion, urbanism and sustainable cities in South Asia / Yamini Narayanan -- pt. I Urban history, religion and heritage -- 2. Origins of Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar/Burma: an urban history of religious space, social integration and marginalisation in colonial Rangoon after 1852 / Anthony Ware -- 3. Religious heritage in the old city of Kabul / Stephanie Matti -- 4. Revisiting planning for Indian cities: the pilgrim city of Amritsar / Shikha Jain -- 5. Tradition versus urban public bureaucracy? Reshaping pilgrimage routes and religious heritage around contested space / Vera Lazzaretti -- 6. Recognising the spatial and territorial nature of religious communities in Colombo, Sri Lanka / Rohan Bastin -- pt. II Informality, marginalisation and violent exchange -- 7. Religious structures on traffic lanes: production of informality in New Delhi / Surajit Chakravarty -- 8. Animals and urban informality in sacred spaces: bull-calf trafficking in Simhachalam Temple, Visakhapatnam / Yamini Narayanan -- 9. Karachi -- a case study in religious and ethnic extremism: implications for urban sustainability / Claude Rakisits -- pt. III Reflections -- 10. Including religion as well as gender in Indian urban planning policy: with reference to lessons from the United Kingdom / Clara Greed -- 11. Religion and urban policy for South Asia: where next? / Yamini Narayanan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 30, 2015)
Subject Cities and towns -- Religious aspects.
Cities and towns -- South Asia
Sustainable urban development -- South Asia
Sustainable development -- Religious aspects.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
RELIGION -- Essays.
RELIGION -- Reference.
Cities and towns
Cities and towns -- Religious aspects
Religion
Sustainable development -- Religious aspects
Sustainable urban development
Religion
Staat
Nachhaltigkeit
SUBJECT South Asia -- Religion
Subject South Asia
Südasien
Form Electronic book
Author Narayanan, Yamini, editor.
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