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Rule by Aesthetics
Asher Ghertner
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Description for Rule by Aesthetics
Paperback. Rule by Aesthetics draws on extensive fieldwork in Delhi's slums, courtrooms and state offices to shed fresh light on the violent underpinnings of contemporary city making. Presenting a new theory of urban power, Ghertner shows how aesthetic codes replaced conventional city planning tools in Delhi's millennial slum clearance drive. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 370.
Rule by Aesthetics offers a powerful examination of the process and experience of mass demolition in the world's second largest city of Delhi, India. Using Delhi's millennial effort to become a 'world-class city,' the book shows how aesthetic norms can replace the procedures of mapping and surveying typically considered necessary to administer space. This practice of evaluating territory based on its adherence to aesthetic norms - what Ghertner calls 'rule by aesthetics' - allowed the state in Delhi to intervene in the once ungovernable space of slums, overcoming its historical reliance on inaccurate maps and statistics. Slums hence were declared ... Read more
Rule by Aesthetics offers a powerful examination of the process and experience of mass demolition in the world's second largest city of Delhi, India. Using Delhi's millennial effort to become a 'world-class city,' the book shows how aesthetic norms can replace the procedures of mapping and surveying typically considered necessary to administer space. This practice of evaluating territory based on its adherence to aesthetic norms - what Ghertner calls 'rule by aesthetics' - allowed the state in Delhi to intervene in the once ungovernable space of slums, overcoming its historical reliance on inaccurate maps and statistics. Slums hence were declared ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199385577
SKU
V9780199385577
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About Asher Ghertner
D. Asher Ghertner is an interdisciplinary scholar who uses the contemporary politics of slum demolition and urban renewal in India to challenge conventional theories of economic transition, city planning and political rule. He is Assistant Professor in Geography and Director of the South Asian Studies Program at Rutgers University. He previously taught at the London School of Economics.
Reviews for Rule by Aesthetics
Interesting to anyone concerned with the growth of and intricacies in Indian city life and with the more general problem of slum-clearance
Joseph Rykwert, The Times Literary Supplement
Joseph Rykwert, The Times Literary Supplement