[Urban-Media] 10.31.06: Colonial Suburbanization

[shekhar@MIT.EDU]

Dear All:

We will meet for our next session on TUESDAY 31 OCTOBER in MIT Building
E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) from 7.00-9.00 p.m. to discuss
these texts on suburbanization in India, Europe and the U.S.:

Nikhil Rao, "An Indian Suburbia", chapter 1 from dissertation in the
Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/rao_indian_suburbia.pdf

Robert Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New
York: Basic Books, 1987.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/fishman_bourgeois_utopias.pdf

The first text will be the basis for the discussion. Next week, Nikhil
will also circulate a shorter conference paper from a talk he will be
giving at the South Asia Conference in Madison this weekend. I will also
send an additional text, Kenneth Jackson's Crabgrass Frontier: The
Suburbanization of the United States.

Also, I will order vegetarian meals from the Guru for everyone around
6.45 p.m. in the STS Reading Room -- six meals for myself, Mike, Eric,
Nikhil, Ilham, and Nithya. Let me know if you DON'T want food.

Best,


Shekhar
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Shekhar Krishnan
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