TY - BOOK AU - Nair, Janaki TI - The promise of the metropolis: Bangalore's twentieth century SN - 0195690443 U1 - 320.09 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Social change N1 - 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? ER -