[Urban-Media] TUESDAY: Planning Princely Hyderabad

[Shekhar Krishnan]

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
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New York, NY 10027
U.S.A.

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