From shekhar at MIT.EDU Wed Nov 29 22:17:29 2006 From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:17:29 -0500 Subject: [Urban-Media] 12.5.06: Planning Princely Hyderabad Message-ID: <1164856649.10609.16.camel@localhost> Dear All: http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Fall_2006_Sessions#5_December_2006:_Planning_Princely_Hyderabad We will meet for our next reading session this coming TUESDAY 5 DECEMBER in MIT Building E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) from 7.00-9.00 p.m. when Eric Beverley will present on "Improvising Urbanism: Aesthetics and Sanitation in the Making of Modern Hyderabad", a draft chapter from his dissertation, followed by discussion of paper and supplementary texts below. PAPER Eric Lewis Beverley, "Improvising Urbanism: Aesthetics and Sanitation in the Making of Modern Hyderabad" http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/beverley_hyderabad.pdf SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS Mark Harrison, "The Foundations of Public Health in India: Crisis and Constraint", chapter 3 of Public Health in British India: Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/elbev/harrison_public_health.pdf Di Wang, "Street Control", chapter 5 of Street Culture in Chengdu: Public Space, Urban Commoners and Local Politics, 1870-1930, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/elbev/di_wang_street_culture.pdf Paul Rabinow, "Techno-Cosmpolitanism: Governing Morocco", chapter 9 of French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/elbev/rabinow_norms_forms.pdf John E. Brush, "The Morphology of Indian Cities" in Roy Turner, ed., India's Urban Future: Selected Studies from an International Conference sponsored by Kingsley Davis, Richard L. Park, and Catherine Bauer Wurster, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/elbev/brush_morphology.pdf Zeynep Celik, "Regularization of the Urban Fabric" in Celik, The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/elbev/celik_urban_fabric_istanbul.pdf As usual, I will order meals for everyone. Please let me know if you are NOT coming so I can adjust the food order accordingly. Also please note that this is our second to last session of the semester. The final session will be on Tuesday 12 December when Tulasi Srinivas from Georgetown University will come to present on "Entrepreneur Hindu Priests and Dynamic Ritual in a Hi-Tech Boomtown", on Bangalore. Best, S.K. -- Shekhar Krishnan 353, Massachusetts Avenue, Apt.5H Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar http://www.heptanesia.net http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar From shekhar at MIT.EDU Sun Dec 3 19:54:30 2006 From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:54:30 -0500 Subject: [Urban-Media] TUESDAY: Planning Princely Hyderabad Message-ID: <1165193671.32485.101.camel@localhost> Dear All: http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Fall_2006_Sessions#5_December_2006:_Planning_Princely_Hyderabad We will meet for our next reading session this coming TUESDAY 5 DECEMBER in MIT Building E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) from 7.00-9.00 p.m. when Eric Beverley will present on "Improvising Urbanism: Aesthetics and Sanitation in the Making of Modern Hyderabad", a draft chapter from his dissertation, followed by discussion of paper and supplementary texts below. PAPER Eric Lewis Beverley, "Improvising Urbanism: Aesthetics and Sanitation in the Making of Modern Hyderabad" http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/beverley_hyderabad.pdf SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS Mark Harrison, "The Foundations of Public Health in India: Crisis and Constraint", chapter 3 of Public Health in British India: Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/elbev/harrison_public_health.pdf Di Wang, "Street Control", chapter 5 of Street Culture in Chengdu: Public Space, Urban Commoners and Local Politics, 1870-1930, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/elbev/di_wang_street_culture.pdf Paul Rabinow, "Techno-Cosmpolitanism: Governing Morocco", chapter 9 of French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/elbev/rabinow_norms_forms.pdf John E. Brush, "The Morphology of Indian Cities" in Roy Turner, ed., India's Urban Future: Selected Studies from an International Conference sponsored by Kingsley Davis, Richard L. Park, and Catherine Bauer Wurster, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/elbev/brush_morphology.pdf Zeynep Celik, "Regularization of the Urban Fabric" in Celik, The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/elbev/celik_urban_fabric_istanbul.pdf As usual, I will order meals for everyone. Please let me know if you are NOT coming so I can adjust the food order accordingly. Also please note that this is our second to last session of the semester. The final session will be on Tuesday 12 December when Tulasi Srinivas from Georgetown University will come to present on "Entrepreneur Hindu Priests and Dynamic Ritual in a Hi-Tech Boomtown", on Bangalore. Best, S.K. -- Shekhar Krishnan 400, West 119th Street, Apt.10D New York, NY 10027 U.S.A. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar http://www.heptanesia.net http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar