Calcutta 1981 : The city, its crisis, and the debate on urban planning and development

• Auteur principal: Jean Racine (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Institut Français de Pondichéry 1990
• Sujets: Biography & True Stories; urban crisis; town planning; urban development
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A city laden with symbolic meaning in the Western mind, Calcutta - with ten million inhabitants today - is much more than the apathetic or violent display of urban destitution in India, as seen by the world at large. This collection tries to reach precisely beyond the cliches, to enable some of thos...