Author: Nair Janaki
Place: New Delhi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2007
Volume: of niversip 8
Pages: 454
ISBN: 019569044-3
Subject: Urbanisation
Sub-Subject: Urban Studies
Keyword: Urban Planning
Classification: 711.4
Shelf: C4R4
Accession No: B683
Contents: Abbreviations List of Photographs List of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Where Does the City Begin? One: Bengaluru/Bangalore: The Presence of the Past Two: Remembered and Imagined Cities Three: Conceiving the City: Master Planning and Informal Power Four: The Map is not the Territory: Law and the Production of Space Five: Past Perfect: Architecture and Public Life Six: Language and the Right to the City Seven: Battles for Bangalore: Re-territorializing the City Eight: The Body Politic: Gender and the Practise of Power Conclusion: Is Singapore Bangalore’s Destiny Notes Select Bibliography Index
Abstract: *The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore’s Twentieth Century* traces Bangalore’s transformation from colonial cantonment and princely capital to global IT hub. Blending history, spatial theory, and cultural analysis, it examines how memory, planning, law, architecture, language, and politics shape the city. The book explores tensions between master plans and informal power, legal regulation of space, architecture’s role in public life, and gendered urban participation. Through maps, photographs, and documents, it presents Bangalore as both aspirational and contested. Concluding with comparisons to Singapore’s controlled growth, it questions what such a model might gain or sacrifice in shaping the modern Indian metropolis.