Gambetta, Curt and Banham, Reyner and Bandyopadhyay, Ritajyoti
(2012)
Streetscapes: a symposium on the future of the streets - The problem.
Seminar (636).
| Abstract: |
WHAT is the future of the street? In both the popular
and critical imagination, the question is coloured by a
sense of impending obsolescence, as though the importance
of the street as a conduit of social life may well
be a thing of the past. Recent experience seems only
to confirm this. Infrastructure bends to accept an
exploding population of single occupancy vehicles: flyovers
and thoroughfares provide ground for unceasing
circulation, insulating the movement of vehicles from
the discontinuous ebb and flow of street congestion.
Retail and leisure are drawn in from the street and subject
to new forms of ownership, locating the social life
of economic transaction inside closed interior shops and
malls, while street hawkers are organized into highly
regulated vending zones. Other transformations are
less visible, but increasingly ubiquitous. GIS, CCTV and
other technologies of mapping and surveillance significantly
reshape how the space of the street is inhabited,
regulated and contested. |
| Item Type: |
Journal Paper
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| Subjects: |
School of Social Sciences > Sociology |
| Divisions: |
Schools > Social Sciences |
| Date Deposited: |
07 Sep 2012 09:07 |
| Last Modified: |
07 Sep 2012 09:07 |
| Official URL: |
http://www.india-seminar.com/semframe.html |
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| URI: |
http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/335 |
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