Title Of greater dignity than riches : austerity & housing design in India / Farhan Karim

Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Series Culture, politics, and the built environment Culture, politics, and the built environment. Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Imagining an Ideal Prototype House for Industrial Workers; 2. Exhibiting Development; 3. The Idea of an Ideal Village; 4. Architecture of the New Villages; 5. Appropriating Global Norms of Austerity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s--after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease--a time when architects, engineers, and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India's urban poor and industrial workers. As Farhan Karim argues, economic scarcity became a central inspiration for architectural modernism in the subcontinent. As India moved from colonial rule to independence, the Indian government, business entities, international NGOs, and intergovernmental agencies took major initiatives to modernize housing conditions and the domestic environment of the state's low-income population. Of Greater Dignity than Riches traces multiple international origins of austerity as an essential ingredient of postcolonial development. By prescribing model villages, communities, and ideal houses for the working class, this project of austerity eventually reduced poverty into a stylized architectural representation. In this rich and original study, Karim explains the postwar and postcolonial history of low-cost housing as an intertwined process of global transferences of knowledge, Cold War cultural politics, postcolonial nationalism, and the politics of economic development Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 28, 2019) Subject Low-income housing -- India -- History -- 20th century Dwellings -- India -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century Urban poor -- Housing -- India -- History -- 20th century ARCHITECTURE -- General. Dwellings -- Design and construction Low-income housing Urban poor -- Housing India Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822986546 082298654X

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