PAPER

Nikhil Rao, “An Indian Suburbia”, chapter 1 from dissertation in the Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms.

SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

Archer, John. “Colonial Suburbs in South Asia, 1750-1850, and the Spaces of Modernity.” In Visions of Suburbia, edited by Roger Silverstone, 26-54. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

King, Anthony D. “Excavating the Multicultural Suburb: Hidden Histories of the Bungalow.” In Visions of Suburbia, edited by Roger Silverstone, 55-85. New York: Routledge, 1997.

We will meet for a screening of the film C.I.D. (1956) on TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER in MIT Building E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) at 7.00 p.m.

See you this evening and feel free to bring friends.

Main Texts

Patrick Geddes, Selection from “Cities in Evolution” from Marshall Stalley, ed., Patrick Geddes: Spokesman for Man and the Environment, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1972.

Patrick Geddes, “Committee on Collaboration between the Bombay University and Bombay City” (Maharashtra State Archives, Educational Department, 1920)

Patrick Geddes, “Essential of Sociology in Relation to Economics”,  Indian Journal of Economics, vol. III, part 1, 1919 (?)

Hellen Meller, “Urbanisation and the Introduction of Modern Town Planning Ideas in India, 1900-1925″

Ramachandra Guha, “Patrick Geddes and Ecological Town Planning in India”, talk given to the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), September 2006

Indian Town Planning Reports by Patrick Geddes

(with sincere thanks to Arindam Datta for sharing his collection of these reports with the group)

Geddes, Reports on Re-Planning of Six Towns in Bombay Presidency, 1915. Bombay: Government of Maharashtra Urban Development and Public Health Dept, 1965.

Geddes, Town Planning in Lucknow: A Report to the Municipal Council. Lucknow: Murray’s London Printing Press, 1916.

Geddes, Report on Town Planning, Dacca. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Depot, 1917.

Geddes (with H.V. Lanchester), Town Planning in Jubbulpore: A Report to the Municipal Committee. Jubbulpore: Hitkarini Press, 1917.

Geddes, Town Planning towards City Development: A Report to the Durbar of Indore. Indore: Holkar State Printing Press, 1918.