000			02012nam a22002417a 4500
005			20240201150146.0
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020			_a9781009100113
028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/000104 _d: 20/01/2024
082			_a307.12 BAN
100			_aBandyopadhyay, Ritajyoti.
245			_aStreets in motion _b : the making of infrastructure, property and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta. _c/ Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay.
260			_a, United Kingdom _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2022.
300			_a xiv, 305 pages _b : illustrations, maps _c ; 24 cm.
365			_b1200
520			_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"
650			_aCity planning
650			_aSquatters
650			_aPedestrian traffic flow
650			_aPolitical Economy
700			_aRitajyoti Bandyopadhyay
942			_cBOOK
999			_c61424 _d61424