[Urban-Media] Tomorrow

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

We will meet tomorrow Wednesday 29 March in MIT Building E-51 Room 393 to discuss the texts listed below. We will begin with an oral presentation by Nikhil Rao and continue with discussion of the texts on urban form, spatial practice and the image of the "public".
Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City (1960). Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/lynch_ch1-5.pdf
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/lynch_appendices.pdf

Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Of Garbage, Modernity and the Citizen's Gaze" in Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp.65-79.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/chakrabarty.pdf

Sudipta Kaviraj, "Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta," Public Culture vol.10, no.1 (1997) pp.83-113.

http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/kaviraj.pdf

See the full list for 29 March on:

http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Schedule_of_Meetings#29_March_2006:_Urban_Form

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Best,



S.K.
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