01962nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801010007608200150017710000300019224501460022226000600036830000550042836500090048352011410049265000180163365000140165165000280166565000220169370000290171520240201150146.0240201b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781009100113  a: Brijwasi Book Distributorsb: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhic: BW/000104d: 20/01/2024  a307.12 BAN  aBandyopadhyay, Ritajyoti.  aStreets in motionb : the making of infrastructure, property and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta.c/ Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay.  a, United Kingdomb: Cambridge University Pressc, 2022.  a xiv, 305 pagesb : illustrations, mapsc ; 24 cm.  b1200  a"Investigating sites in colonial and postcolonial Calcutta, this book considers the wider politics and consequences of the modalities that both produce and regulate the street. It situates political economy as belonging not just to the domain of the government, the law, the planner's apparatus but parallelly to the domain of public action on the street. It studies, primarily, city-making by popular passions and public action on the streets. The book looks at the streets in motion through the eyes of the colonial and postcolonial city planners and of squatters who obstruct the movement of pedestrians and traffic. It qualifies the dialectic between the planner and the crowd by factoring in the aspect of city-planning being shaped by crowd action. The planner reorganizes demography through the building of thoroughfares while crowds shape planning by different varieties of occupation-occupation as community (authoritarian: Hindu aggregation of space through communal riots) and occupation as class (democratic: counter-pedestrianism of the street vendors). It thus presents an understanding of the social production of motion"  aCity planning  aSquatters  aPedestrian traffic flow  aPolitical Economy  aRitajyoti Bandyopadhyay