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Faint Promise in Richard Sennet’s ‘The Uses of Disorder’
“The fruit of this conflict— a paradox which is the essence of this book— is that in extricating the city from pre-planned control, man will become more in control of themselves and more aware of each other. That is the promise, and the justification, of disorder.” Richard Sennet’s ‘The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and…
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Demolishing homes, building cities
Demolitions share a long history with our cities. For scale, between 1990 and 2003, 51,461 houses were demolished in Delhi alone, under “slum clearance” schemes. The Shah Commission reports record that during the emergency, several states in India enforced demolitions using police force, razing homes, often without any notice or rehabilitation. Of this time, the anthropologist…
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A partial biography of city-names
Adjectives are thrilling. They bring theatre to the sentence. In simple terms, an adjective is that part of speech that alters a noun or a noun phrase or describes its referent. Old copy. White ledge. Its etymology can be traced back to the latin phrase nomen adjectivum– itself a loan from Greek– that roughly translates to…
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Cities in Books
This is a sample of the city-related books I have read this year. While I have reviewed Amita Baviskar’s Uncivity City in detail for the LSE Review of Books (link here), regarding the others, I have only been able to write about in snatches. With the exception of Shanta Gokhale’s Shivaji Nagar, however, I have…
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