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050	0	4	_aHD7287 _b.O347 2019
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100	1		_aKarim, Farhan, _e1
245	1	0	_aOf greater dignity than riches : _bausterity & housing design in India / _cFarhan Karim.
260			_aPittsburgh, Pa. : _bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, _c(c)2019.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aCulture, politics, and the built environment
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505	0	0	_aIntro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Imagining an Ideal Prototype House for Industrial Workers; 2. Exhibiting Development; 3. The Idea of an Ideal Village; 4. Architecture of the New Villages; 5. Appropriating Global Norms of Austerity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
520	0		_aExtreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s--after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease--a time when architects, engineers, and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India's urban poor and industrial workers. As Farhan Karim argues, economic scarcity became a central inspiration for architectural modernism in the subcontinent. As India moved from colonial rule to independence, the Indian government, business entities, international NGOs, and intergovernmental agencies took major initiatives to modernize housing conditions and the domestic environment of the state's low-income population. Of Greater Dignity than Riches traces multiple international origins of austerity as an essential ingredient of postcolonial development. By prescribing model villages, communities, and ideal houses for the working class, this project of austerity eventually reduced poverty into a stylized architectural representation. In this rich and original study, Karim explains the postwar and postcolonial history of low-cost housing as an intertwined process of global transferences of knowledge, Cold War cultural politics, postcolonial nationalism, and the politics of economic development.
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650		0	_aLow-income housing _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aDwellings _zIndia _xDesign and construction _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aUrban poor _xHousing _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell