One Idea, Many Plans: An American City Design Concept in Independent India

by Sanjeev Vidyarthi

Book Overview

Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities. Tracking the development of American "neighborhood unit" concept in independent India's planning practice and literature-from the national level policies to on-the-ground applications in the city of Jaipur-Vidyarthi explains how a host of actors including neighborhood residents, squatters, politicians and developers made different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138798126
• ISBN13: 9781138798120
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"