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OF GREATER DIGNITY THAN RICHES: AUSTERITY AND HOUSING By Farhan Karim **Mint**
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- ISBN-10
- 0822965690
- Book Title
- Of Greater Dignity than Riches: Austerity and Housing Design in
- Item Weight
- 2.25 pounds
- ISBN
- 9780822965695
- Series
- Culture Politics and the Built Environment Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Of Greater Dignity than Riches : Austerity and Housing Design in India
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 408 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-10
0822965690
ISBN-13
9780822965695
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038608428
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Of Greater Dignity than Riches : Austerity and Housing Design in India
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Culture Politics and the Built Environment Ser.
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
408 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
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Hd7287.96.I4k376
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" Of Greater Dignity than Riches makes a much-needed contribution to the all-important--and still ongoing--discussion of the 'minimum house' in South Asia. Farhan Karim's work complements a growing general body of interest in colonial and postcolonial architecture of the Indian subcontinent. His deft analysis of modernisms of architecture engaged by the Nehruvian state, beyond those in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad, is badly needed." -- Vikramaditya Prakash, University of Washington, "This book brilliantly shows the explanatory power of austerity and scarcity in the emergence of postcolonial modernism in India, without disregarding how the state and global institutions manipulated these values as a means to keep the poor docile and content with minimal needs. Thinking about a modernism of austerity helps us confront two of the worlds' most pressing problems: Anthropocene and global economic injustice." -- Esra Akcan, Cornell University, " Of Greater Dignity than Riches makes a much-needed contribution to the all-important--and still ongoing--discussion of the 'minimum house' in South Asia. Farhan Karim's work complements a growing general body of interest in colonial and postcolonial architecture of the Indian subcontinent. His deft analysis of modernisms of architecture engaged by the Nehruvian state, beyond those in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad, is badly needed." -- Vikramaditya Prakash , University of Washington, "Such is the triumph of this fine book: it offers at once a global history of India's architectural past and a set of timely lessons for this interconnected architectural present." -- Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, "This book brilliantly shows the explanatory power of austerity and scarcity in the emergence of postcolonial modernism in India, without disregarding how the state and global institutions manipulated these values as a means to keep the poor docile and content with minimal needs. Thinking about a modernism of austerity helps us confront two of the worlds' most pressing problems: Anthropocene and global economic injustice." -- Esra Akcan , Cornell University
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
History / Contemporary (1945-), Economics / General
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2019-286487
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Yes
Genre
Architecture, Business & Economics
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