[Urban-Media] Tuesday

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

We will meet for our first session this semester this TUESDAY 10 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. I have ordered six meals for myself, Eric, Nikhil,
Mike, and Ilham Khuri-Makdisi from Northeastern and Etienne Benson from
MIT who will be joining us. 


Best,


S.K.
-- 

Shekhar Krishnan
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