Colonial urban development : culture, social power and environment / King Anthony D .

Part One1. Colonial urban development : the problem stated--2. Towards a theory of colonial urban development--3. The social and cultural context of colonial urban developmentPart Two--4. The language of colonial urbanisation--5. Military space: The Cantonment as a system of environmental control--6. Residential space: the bungalow-compound complex as a study in the cultural use of space--7. Social Space: the hill station as a cultural communityPart Three--8. Delhi: a case study in colonial urban development--9. The transformation of a pre-industrial city, 1857-1911--10. Imperial Delhi, 1911-47: a model of colonial urban developmentPart Four--11. Colonial urban development: some implications for further research

The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this. The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular society, to be understood only in terms of its values, behaviour and institutions and the distribution of social and political power within it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in 'colonial cities' of Asia and Africa where the ...