Project Description
PUBLIC PLACES – BOMBAY
“PUBLIC PLACES – BOMBAY” is available for reference at UDRI Resource Centre.
INTRODUCTION
This publication is based on the proceedings of the Seminar titled “Public Places Bombay” that was held in Mumbai on December 15-16, 1995. The Seminar was organised by the Max Mueller Bhavan Bombay, the Urban Design Research Institute and the Habitat Forum, Berlin.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Sense of Place: Spatial Dynamics of the Indian City
- Public Space: The Last Frontier
- History & Sociology of Public Space – Frankfurt
- The Indian Street as Processional Way
- Hyphens & Ellipses
- Launching off from the Backyard
- Urban Ecology & Environment
- Urban Green Spaces and Bombay
- Restoration of Bombay’s Waterfronts
- People: Space :: Public Place
- Angan Tedha
- Proposed Heritage Legislation
- Oval Lessons & Beyond
- Private Enterprise and the Public Places of Bombay
- Post Script
- Notes on Authors
- Maps