Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination

by Ranabir Samaddar, Ishita Dey, Suhit K Sen, et al.

Book Overview

This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata. Conceived by the West Bengal state government in the mid-1990s, in pandering to the vision of urban planners of creating a hi-tech town beyond an unruly, crowded Kolkata, and feeding the hunger of realtors and developers, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113866037X
• ISBN13: 9781138660373
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"