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Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination - Cities and the Urban Imperative Dey, Ishita (Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India) 1st edition
Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination - Cities and the Urban Imperative
Dey, Ishita (Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India)
This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township called New Town in Rajarhat near Kolkata as a hi-tech ‘utopian’ city for the opulent, revealing the working of primitive, exploitative modes of capital accumulation at the heart of this post-colonial, neo-liberal urban development.
280 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 25, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415844352 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 141 × 216 × 25 mm · 452 g |
| Language | English |