Of Greater Dignity Than Riches: Austerity and Housing Design in India

by Farhan Karim

Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s--after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease--a time when architects, engineers, and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India's urban poor and industrial workers. As Farhan Karim argues, economic scarcity became a central inspiration for architectural modernism in the subcontinent. As India moved from colonial rule to independence,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965690
• ISBN13: 9780822965695
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 10.1"