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URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN DELHI

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Delhi's urban development is a rich tapestry woven over several centuries, influenced by various dynasties, colonial powers, and modern planners. A story of unbroken human settlement and geo-political importance, Delhi has boasted of a unique urbanity through its many reincarnations. Delhi’s urban development reflects a saga of both contest and confluence. Today, in its role as the capital of India, it is aspiring to be a 'smart city' and a 'global city'. With a burgeoning population and its modern urban needs, balancing heritage conservation with more utilitarian and aspirational compulsions continues to be a complex yet vital endeavour. Discover the human and political motivations behind this conurbation and the aesthetics and sensibilities embedded in its rise and fall on this page.

Contents

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The City in Indian History

 Banga Indu,     (Ed.)

The City in Indian History

  Indu Banga (Ed.)

Indraprastha : The Earliest Delhi Going Back to the Mahabharata Times

B.B. Lal

H.C. Fanshawe, Delhi- Past and Present.jpeg

Delhi Past and Present

H.C. Fanshawe

Swapna Liddle, Chandni Chowk - The Mughal City of Old Delhi.jpg

Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Delhi

Swapna Liddle

New Delhi Down the Decades: A Behind-the-lens View of the City

D.N. Chaudhari

Maps of Delhi

Pilar Maria Guerrieri

Theorizing The Southeast Asian City As Text

Robbie B. H. Goh & Brenade S.A.Yeoh

Online Read

DELHI METROPOLITAN
The Making of An Unlikely City

Ranjana Sengupta

The Technology of Sanitation in Colonial Delhi

Vijay Prashad

Mandoli: A Late Harappan Settlement in Delhi

B S R Babu

The Text and Subtext of Shah Jahan's Capital City: A Study of the Imperial Iconography of Shahjahanabad

Rohma Javed Rashid

A City With a View: The Afforestation of the Delhi Ridge, I883- I993

Michael Mann and Samiksha Sehrawat

Ambivalent improvements: biography, biopolitics, and colonial Delhi

Stephen Legg

The inverted compact city
of Delhi

Ashok Kumar

Gordon Sanderson’s ‘Grand Programme’:
Architecture, Bureaucracy and Race in the Making
of New Delhi, 1910-1915

Deborah Sutton

Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies- Delhi

Anish Vanaik

Kevin Lynch, The Image of the city.jpg

The Image of the city

Kevin Lynch

Delhi and its Neighbourhood

Y. D. Sharma

The Forgotten Cities of Delhi

Rana Safvi

Shahjhanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi

Rana Safvi

Connaught Place and the making of New Delhi

Swapna Liddle

Lucy Peck, Delhi - A Thousand Years of Building.jpeg

Delhi: A Thousand years of Building

Lucy Peck

Delhi Urban space.jpg

Delhi: Urban Space and Human Destinies

Veronique Dupont 
Emma Tarlo
Denis Vidal

The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social life of infrastructure

Rashmi Sadana

Space Formation and Transformation of the Urban Tissue of Old Delhi, India

Shu Yamane, Shuji Funo, Takashi Ikejiri, 

Linking Histories: The planning of New Delhi

Lucy Peck

Architecture for Empire's Sake: Lutyens's Palace for Delhi

Robert Grant Irving

City Futures: Aspirations and Urban Imaginaries in Delhi

KAVITA RAMAKRISHNAN

Sustainability of Urban Fringe Development and Management in NCT-Delhi: A Case Study

Ramakrishna Nallathiga, Suhani Taneja, Anusha Gupta
and Bitul Gangal

A British Empire for the
twentieth century: the
inauguration of New Delhi, 1931

DAV ID A . J OHNSON

Revisiting the Darya (River)
Urbanism in the Delhi Triangle

J yot i Pa n de y Sh a r m a

Romancing Delhi: From Lalkot to Shahjahanabad

Urmila Varma

The Tenth Delhi: economy, politics and space in the post-liberalisation metropolis

Durba Chattaraj, Kushanava Choudhury, Moulshri Joshi

Peter J. M. Nas, Cities Full of Symbols - A Theory of Urban Space and Culture.jpeg

Cities Full of Symbols: A Theory of Urban Space and Culture

Peter J. M. Nas

An Early Attestation of the Toponym Dhilli

Cohen Richard J

An Early Attestation of the Toponym Dhilli

Cohen Richard J

A.K. Jain, Delhi - Old and New.jpeg

Delhi: Old and New

A.K. Jain

Sunil Raman, Rohit Agarwal, Durbar Delhi 1911- The Complete Story.jpg

Delhi Durbar 1911: The Complete Story

Sunil Raman, Rohit Agarwal

A.K. Jain, Lutyen's Delhi.jpeg

Lutyens' Delhi

A.K. Jain

A.K. Jain, Transforming Delhi.jpeg

Transforming Delhi

A.K. Jain

Delhi's Changing Built Environment

Piyush Tiwari
Jyoti Rao

Images of Delhi
A Literary and Humanistic Geography of Post-independence India

Ramesh Chandra Dhussa

Approaches to the study of Medieval urbanisation

IGNOU

Delhi-New Delhi: Capital for conquerors and country

Gerald Breese

The Ninth Delhi

Patwant Singh

Post-Colonial Developmentalities:
From the Delhi Improvement Trust to the Delhi Development Authority

Stephen Legg

Planning Delhi ca. 1936–1959

DIYA MEHRA

Architecture and Politics in the Construction ofNew Delhi

Suhash Chakravarty

A Study of Regional Assertions in the Architecture of Delhi from the 1970s to the present

Sanyam Bahga Gaurav Raheja

Space, Planning and Everyday
Contestations in Delhi

Surajit Chakravarty
Rohit Negi

Redevelopment of The Walled City of Delhi: An Assessment of the Planning Framework and Governance Challenges

Aisharya Bhattacharjee

A major research project sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)

Dr. Niraj Kumar Singh
Project Director

Prof. Sangeeta Mittal
Co-Project Director

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