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Sumana (Hrsg.) Bandyopadhyay

Kolkata - The Colonial City in Transition

Reflections in Geographies of Urban India

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This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India in terms of the physical, economic, social, political, and environmental aspects of urban geography, and focuses upon the inherent processes that impact its transformation. It discusses different facets of urban geography and highlights the contemporary challenges of a major primate city in South Asia, which represents the conflicts between the traditional and the modern, the rich and the poor, the skyscrapers and the shanties. With its detailed empirical research and mapping exercises based on real-time remote sensing data, the book offers an understanding of a ra… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-00-060371-2
  • EAN: 9781000603712
  • Produktnummer: 38184520
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
  • Seitenangabe: 432 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 113 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 17 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 96 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 44 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor


Sumana Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Geography at University of Calcutta and President of Regional Science Association, India. Her research interests are in human geography and urban geography. She has co-edited five volumes under the Contemporary South Asian Studies Series in association with South Asian Democratic Federation, an EU think tank, and an independent volume on Housing Accessibility in South Asia. She has undertaken several research projects including UGC-DRS, World Bank short-term consultancy and collaborative research with UKERI (Newton Fund), Deakin University, Habitat University and has been invited to join the InteRAI Fellows Network towards modification of InteRAI MH tools for the Indian context. As RSA President, she organises international events, creating platforms for young researchers to build research networks and pursue collaborative learning. She worked as Member, Council at Large of the RSA International and presently is member of the Council of Pacific Regional Science Organisation (PRSCO) She is on the Editorial Boards of Regional Science Policy and Practice, Asian Journal of Regional Science and the Geographical Review of India and is Life Fellow of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics, Regional Science Association India, Institute of Indian Geographers and Member of The Regional Science Academy.

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