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From Garden Suburb to Olde City Ward

A Longitudinal Study of Social Process and Incremental Architecture in Jaipur, India

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ID2390797
AuthorsR Thomas Rosin (0000-0003-1446-9785, Sonoma State University, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume6
Issue2
Pages165-192
Publication date2001-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/135918350100600203
OpenAlexW2134572940
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

In post-Independence India, new colonies of garden suburbs served an educated citizenry to integrate science and nature into their daily life. However, one such colony of bungalows ( kothi) and gardens, begun in Jaipur in the 1950s, after two generations of incremental construction, has become in the 1990s similar to an old city ward with towering courtyard houses ( haveli) abutting the property lines. This longitudinal study compares the middle class occupants' initial aspirations with real outcomes as documented in the materiality of built form. The biography of these buildings reflects not only a quest for a life style of class, but the adapting of site and building to make secure one's livelihood and heritage for one's descendants, and to manage relations with one's neighbors. The built environment is not simply an outcome of regulation, design, and willful intent. The levels of agency and the variety of actors are multiple and complex, demanding an analysis of social interaction and an assessment of aggregate outcomes

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Agriculture · Archaeology · Art · Geography · Livelihood · Materiality (auditing · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Urban and Rural Development Challenges

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Unique citing works1
Citations per year0,05
Citation span2005 - 2005 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1
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