The promise of the metropolis: Bangalore's twentieth century/
Janaki Nair
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- xviii, 454 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Where does the city begin? -- Begaluru/Bangalore : the presence of the past -- Remembered and imagined cities -- Conceiving the city : master planning and informal power -- The map is not the territory : law and the production of space -- Past perfect : architecture and public life -- Language and the right to the city -- Battles for Bangalore : re-territorializing the city -- The "body politic" : gender and the practise of power -- Is "Singapore" Bangalore's destiny?