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Author Vidyarthi, Sanjeev, author

Title One Idea, Many Plans : an American City Design Concept in Independent India / Sanjeev Vidyarthi
Published New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon [UK] : Routledge, 2015

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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Permissions and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I; 1 Discursive Plans-Conceiving Planning Ideas; 2 Parameter Plans-Operationalizing Concepts; Part II; 3 Formal Plans-Making Official Attempts; 4 User Plans-Leveraging Unforeseen Opportunities; Part III; 5 Developer Plans-Building Subdivisions on the Urban Edge; 6 Popular Plans-Reconciling Diverse Efforts; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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 kinds of plans that assimilated the design concept in line with their practical concerns and cultural preferences creating unique variants of neig
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject City planning -- India -- American influences
City planning -- Social aspects -- India -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
City planning -- American influences.
City planning -- Social aspects.
India.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
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