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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Shahjahanabad"”.
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Interventions into old residential quarters : the case of Shahjahanabad
… of the designer. A clearly defined area within Shahjahanabad, the walled city of Delhi, was studied, identifying change currently taking place in their physical, social and economic aspects. three cases are described to illustrate the various components of the walled city as a whole. Two are …
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Confrontation, comparison and reconstruction of the walled city of Shahjahanabad
… new trends of urbanization. One of these cities, Shahjahanabad (commonly known as Old Delhi), stands out as one of the perfect examples. The walled city of Shahjahanabad initially evolved on the basis of formal geometries of axial planning, and later got transformed in to a chaotic hub of complex …
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Urban Water History of Shahjahanabad, Delhi (1639-1857): Situating Mughal Hydrology and Urbanism in the ‘Persianate World’
… by the empire across South Asia, focusing on Shahjahanabad (1639-1857), the last Mughal capital. Using water as a ‘central element’, the thesis decodes patterns of socio-spatial organisation, religious engagements, and urbanism practices emerging from hydrological interactions. It presents …
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Rethinking New Delhi : design studies on the densification of a colonial city
… in India, forms with the Mughal walled city of Shahjahanabad, the core of a city that has grown tenfold in the forty years since Independence, from 700,000 in 1947, to 7.5 million today. Tremendous disparities characterize this core comprising of what was the 'native city' and the 'colonial …
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The Spatialization of Knowledge and Power at the Astronomical Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II, c. 1721-1743 CE
… that the observatory outside the walls of Shahjahanabad functioned as the primary site for scientific production for several years before Sawai Jai Singh directed his attentions toward the observatory in Jaipur c. 1728 CE. A close reading of the plan and architecture of Jaipur reveals the …