A Place in the Shade

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ISBN-10:

0143068784

ISBN-13:

9780143068785

Author(s): Correa, Charles
Released: Jan 13, 2015
Publisher: Penguin Global
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
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Description:

Indian cities are mechanisms for social engineering—more powerful than anything we have seen before they will transform this country a place in the shade explores architectural and urban issues in india, from the house as a machine for dealing with our often hostile climate, to the metaphysical role of architecture as a model of the cosmos this reflective, provocative and consistently readable collection of essays argues that our habitat must respond to the overriding parameters of climate, culture and financial resources and that our physical environment should accommodate notions of inclusion and diversity, and that priceless quality of synergy which characterizes a city charles correa identifies the defining issues of the urbanization process that is so rapidly transforming india he writes, ‘you cannot look at cities without wandering into architecture on the one hand and politics on the other’ tragically, over the last few decades, urban real estate has become the primary sou


























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