In SAI’s second annual publication, The City and South Asia, experts from a variety of fields, at both Harvard and elsewhere, have come together to hold up a cross-disciplinary lens to urban centers in South Asia. This volume aims to shed light on planning and architecture, and other existing elements of urban development, and provide a sense of the new forms of urbanism emerging in contemporary South Asia.
Articles:
Archaeology and the Ancient City
By Nayanjot Lahiri
The Season of Migration to the City
By Namita Dharia
Housing in Karachi Today
By Arif Hasan
The Beautification of Postwar Colombo
Harini Amarasuriya and Jonathan Spencer
Modern Chandigarh
By Maristella Casciato
Urban Planning in Bangladesh
By Fuad H. Mallick, Aminur Rahman, and A. K. M. Sirajuddin
The Changing Urban Space of Colombo
By Jagath Munasinghe
Decoding Dhaka
By Farooq Ameen
Impatient Capital and the Indian City
By Rahul Mehrotra
The Land and Tilism of Hoshruba
By Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Durga Pujo in Kolkata
By Anirban Adhya
In Varanasi We Trust
By Andy Rotman
Waste and the City
By Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey
Finding the Citizen in the City
By Niraja Jayal
Whose City, Whose Art?
By Romita Ray
Floating on Waste Islands
By Venkata Krishna Kumar Matturi
Digital Romance in the Indian City
By Payal Arora and Nimmi Rangaswamy
From Pettai to Nagar
By A. R. Venkatachalapathy
Forever Amber
By Kaiser Haq