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One Idea, Many Plans - An American City Design Concept in Independent India (Paperback)
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One Idea, Many Plans - An American City Design Concept in Independent India (Paperback)
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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 neighborhood urbanism over time. One
Idea, Many Plans counters misguided characterization of these
unforeseen efforts as 'unauthorized' by state authorities. It shows
how the frequently informal and tacit plans were neither arbitrary
actions nor aimless subversions but purposeful future-oriented
efforts that shaped the envisaged sociality and spatiality of
Indian cities in more meaningful ways than the official master
plans promoting planned neighborhoods. Carefully illustrating the
different kinds of plans local actors use to guide incremental
adaptation, improvement and investment, Vidyarthi offers insights
about how we might improve formal plan making. Scholars, students
and professional practitioners interested in different regions of
the global south would find these lessons useful as a new
generation of city design ideas like sustainability and new
urbanism gain traction in an increasingly globalized World.
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