From nraman at MIT.EDU Tue Dec 5 08:11:21 2006 From: nraman at MIT.EDU (Nithya Raman) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:11:21 -0500 Subject: [Urban-Media] TUESDAY: Planning Princely Hyderabad In-Reply-To: <1165193671.32485.101.camel@localhost> References: <1165193671.32485.101.camel@localhost> Message-ID: I wont be attending today. Thanks, Nithya On Dec 3, 2006, at 7:54 PM, Shekhar Krishnan wrote: > 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 > > --- > > MIT Urban Media Mailing List > > http://urban.media.mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media From shekhar at MIT.EDU Wed Dec 6 19:58:19 2006 From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:58:19 -0500 Subject: [Urban-Media] 12.12.06: Divine Enterprise in Bangalore Message-ID: <1165453100.8421.150.camel@localhost> Dear All: We will meet for our next session this coming TUESDAY 12 DECEMBER in MIT Building E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) from 7.00-9.00 p.m. when Tulasi Srinivas from Georgetown University will present on "Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore" followed by discussion of the article and other texts below. PRIMARY TEXT Tulasi Srinivas, "Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore", South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol.XXIX, no.3, December 2006 http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/srinivas_bangalore.pdf SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS Janaki Nair, "Battles for Bangalore: Re-Territorialising the City", paper published by SEPHIS (South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development), International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, 2002 http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/nair_bangalore.pdf James Heitzman, "Becoming Silicon Valley", Seminar 503 on Globalization, New Delhi, July 2001 http://www.india-seminar.com/2001/503/503%20james%20heitzman.htm Please note that this will be our last session this semester. 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. 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 i.khuri-makdisi at neu.edu Wed Dec 6 20:20:05 2006 From: i.khuri-makdisi at neu.edu (i.khuri-makdisi@neu.edu) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:20:05 -0500 Subject: [Urban-Media] 12.12.06: Divine Enterprise in Bangalore Message-ID: hi, sorry once again, but i'm taking off on the 12th. see you all next year, and best wishes to all. ilham From shekhar at MIT.EDU Sat Dec 9 20:56:28 2006 From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:56:28 -0500 Subject: [Urban-Media] Additional Readings for TUESDAY Message-ID: <1165715788.5771.35.camel@localhost> Dear All: We will meet for our next session this coming TUESDAY 12 DECEMBER in MIT Building E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) from 7.00-9.00 p.m. when Tulasi Srinivas from Georgetown University will present on "Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore" followed by discussion of the article and other texts below. Please note that there are three additional supplementary texts by Peter Hall, David Harvey, and Wayne Ashley listed below. My apologies for the late posting. PRIMARY TEXT Tulasi Srinivas, "Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore", South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol.XXIX, no.3, December 2006 http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/srinivas_bangalore.pdf SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS Wayne Ashley, "The Stations of the Cross: Christ, Politics, and Processions on New York City's Lower East Side" in Robert Orsi, ed. Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, pp.341-366 http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/ashley_stations_cross.pdf David Harvey, "Capitalism: The Factory of Fragmentation" (chapter 7) and "Cartographic Identities: Geographical Knowledges Under Globalization" (chapter 11) from Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography, New York: Routledge, 2001, pp.121-127 and pp.208-236 http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/harvey_spaces_capital.pdf Peter Hall, "The City of Enterprise: Planning Turned Upside Down: Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975-1987" in Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century, London: Basil Blackwell, 1988, pp.342-260 http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/hall_city_enterprise.pdf Janaki Nair, "Battles for Bangalore: Re-Territorialising the City", paper published by SEPHIS (South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development), International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, 2002 http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/nair_bangalore.pdf James Heitzman, "Becoming Silicon Valley", Seminar 503 on Globalization, New Delhi, July 2001 http://www.india-seminar.com/2001/503/503%20james%20heitzman.htm Please note that this will be our last session this semester. 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. 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 From shekhar at MIT.EDU Sat Dec 9 21:08:18 2006 From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:08:18 -0500 Subject: [Urban-Media] Wiki Message-ID: <1165716499.5771.38.camel@localhost> Dear All: Have a look at our sessions for this past semester on: http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Fall_2006_Sessions And also see last semester's sessions on: http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Spring_2006_Sessions This is an impressive record of sessions, and thanks to everyone for making this happen over the past year. 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