Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination by Ishita Dey, Ranabir Samaddar, Suhit K Sen

Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination

Ishita Dey, Ranabir Samaddar, Suhit K Sen

304 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

challenging informative medium-paced

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This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata. Conceived by the West Bengal state gov...

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