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Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism

ISBN: 9780415409667 | 0415409667
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 9/8/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Using Delhi's contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is an illicit form of urban globalization. Poorer urban populations increasinly is inhabit non-legal spheres (unauthorized neighborhoods, squatter camps) and bypass legal technological infrastructures (media, electricity). This pirate culture produces a s... MORE
List of figuresp. xii
Prefacep. xiv
Acknowledgmentsp. xvi
Introduction: after mediap. 1
A city of order: the Masterplanp. 28
Media urbanismp. 67
The pirate kingdomp. 105
Death and the accidentp. 139
Conclusion: An information city?p. 172
Notesp. 181
Bibliographyp. 2... MORE
Indexp. 216
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Ravi Sundaram is a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. In 2000 he founded CSDS' Sarai programme along with Ravi Vasudevan, Monica Narual, Jeebesh Bagchi, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Sundaram has co-edited the critically acclaimed Sarai Reader series that includes The Cities of Everyday Life (2002) and Frontiers (2007).


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