[Urban-Media] Geddes on Tuesday

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

We will meet for our first session this semester next TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER
in MIT Building E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) at 6.30 p.m. to
discuss these texts:

Primary Texts

Patrick Geddes, Selection from "Cities in Evolution" from Marshall
Stalley, ed., Patrick Geddes: Spokesman for Man and the Environment, New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1972. 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/cities_in_evolution.pdf

Ramachandra Guha, "Patrick Geddes and Ecological Town Planning in India"
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/guha_talk.pdf

Hellen Meller, "Urbanisation and the Introduction of Modern Town
Planning Ideas in India, 1900-1925"
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/meller_indian_town_planning.pdf


Secondary Texts

Geddes, Reports on Re-Planning of Six Towns in Bombay Presidency, 1915.
Bombay: Government of Maharashtra Urban Development and Public Health
Dept, 1965. 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/bombay_1915.pdf

Geddes, Town Planning in Lucknow: A Report to the Municipal Council.
Lucknow: Murray's London Printing Press, 1916. 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/lucknow_1916.pdf

Geddes, Report on Town Planning, Dacca. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat
Depot, 1917. 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/dacca_1917.pdf

Geddes (with H.V. Lanchester), Town Planning in Jubbulpore: A Report to
the Municipal Committee. Jubbulpore: Hitkarini Press, 1917. 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/jubbulpore_1917.pdf

Geddes, Town Planning towards City Development: A Report to the Durbar
of Indore. Indore: Holkar State Printing Press, 1918.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/geddes/indore_1918.pdf


I will order vegetarian meals from the Guru for everyone at 6.00 p.m. in
the STS Reading Room. Please make sure to let me know if you'll be
coming early for food.


Best,


S.K.
-- 

Shekhar Krishnan
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