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From: "Anand Bhatt, Architect." <interface.public@xxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:46:16 -0700
wondering if someone has information on the British town planning and urban
design
policies post 1857, and a quick document might be complied for Architexturez
Files section. it could just be me, but i keep seeing resemblances between
the things that are done to war cities (1990 - now) and then: the
installation of new organs of governance, appearance of planners,
statistical / technological means of design _at the cost_ of pre-existing
and highly localized systems, the disarticulation of territories... the ways
in which one might punish the conquered societies.
i have read some sporadic accounts from British journalists (1857 and
thereabouts) of the rioting, looting and a general state of disarray that
was allowed to prevail in Indian cities for a while as well (and half
jokingly, i wonder if the Anglo-Americans have ended up _liberalizing_ Iraq
rather than liberate it, as claimed) and this cannot be totally unforeseen,
and perhaps another way of punishing the population.