Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Seeing and Engaging People's Spaces: Deprivations and Challenges; 1 Indigenizing the Colonial City: The Ceylonese Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Colombo; 2 Feminizing the White Male City: Women Gaining Access to Colonial Colombo; 3 Spaces of Survival: People's Adaptation of a War Zone in Sri Lanka; 4 From Resisting to Familiarizing Impositions: Living in the World Heritage Site at Galle Fort, Sri Lanka; 5 Beginning Spaces: Young People's Struggles for Dwellings in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
6 Spaces of Recovery: Rebuilding Lives after the Tsunami in Kalametiya7 Protecting the Habitat: Redevelopment, Illegibility, and the Strength of Dharavi; 8 Spaces of Modernity: Daanchi between Vernacular and Modern; 9 Everyday Building: The Production of the Middle-ClassBuilt-Environmentin Gangtok, India; 10 People's Neighborhood Center: Handiya in Sri Lanka; 11 Conclusions: Production of Social Space: From Coping with Provided and Imposed Spaces to Creating Their Own; Index
