Radical city:

Contributor(s):

Polsani, Pithamber R [ed.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Sage, 2021.Description: xi, 256pISBN:

9789353887148

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DDC classification:

307.12160954 RAD

Summary: In the next few decades a billion people will be urbanised. There will be over 40 megacities―more than 10 million inhabitants―most of which will be located in the ′global south′, especially China and India. Cities already stretched to the seams will explode. The accelerated global warming and extreme weather events will only make the situation worse resulting in unimaginable consequences. Radical City: Imagining Possibilities for the Indian City argues that we should urgently reflect on the question raised by the luminaries of Congrès Internationaux d′Architecture Moderne (CIAM) nearly a century back, ′Should our cities survive?′, because the Functional City―a conglomeration with differentiated zones of activity and transportation of people and materials between the zones―invented by CIAM has outlived its usefulness.

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Includes index.

In the next few decades a billion people will be urbanised. There will be over 40 megacities―more than 10 million inhabitants―most of which will be located in the ′global south′, especially China and India. Cities already stretched to the seams will explode. The accelerated global warming and extreme weather events will only make the situation worse resulting in unimaginable consequences. Radical City: Imagining Possibilities for the Indian City argues that we should urgently reflect on the question raised by the luminaries of Congrès Internationaux d′Architecture Moderne (CIAM) nearly a century back, ′Should our cities survive?′, because the Functional City―a conglomeration with differentiated zones of activity and transportation of people and materials between the zones―invented by CIAM has outlived its usefulness.

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