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This book explores the connection between architecture and history, presenting a rich variety of examples from different cultures that have made human settlements, architecture, and cities. It demonstrates that histories of settlement patterns conserve natural and human sources and symbiotic living with nature, animals, vegetation, and communities that are on the move and explores how the knowledge of materials and techniques of making are integral to architecture.

The book discusses the social, ecological, textual, philosophical, material, and interpretative processes that are reflected in the making of architecture and cities through history. It emphasises how the traditions of making buildings and human habitats involve people of all social strata. It also argues that the histories of architecture cannot be of durable and fixed structures alone but should also closely examine how buildings are extended, sustained, and the processes of their dissolution.

This book is a must-read for students of architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture. It will also be a valuable resource for students of other disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, history, environment and ecology and cultural studies. Additionally, it would be helpful for engineers, administrators, decision makers, and economists involved in deciding growth priorities for cities to balance the dependence on technology with the concern for sustainable human habitats.

This book explores the connection between architecture and history, presenting a rich variety of examples from different cultures that have made human settlements, architecture, and cities. It demonstrates that histories of settlement patterns conserve natural and human sources and symbiotic living with nature, animals, vegetation, and communities that are on the move and explores how the knowledge of materials and techniques of making are integral to architecture.

The book discusses the social, ecological, textual, philosophical, material, and interpretative processes that are reflected in the making of architecture and cities through history. It emphasises how the traditions of making buildings and human habitats involve people of all social strata. It also argues that the histories of architecture cannot be of durable and fixed structures alone but should also closely examine how buildings are extended, sustained, and the processes of their dissolution.

This book is a must-read for students of architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture. It will also be a valuable resource for students of other disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, history, environment and ecology and cultural studies. Additionally, it would be helpful for engineers, administrators, decision makers, and economists involved in deciding growth priorities for cities to balance the dependence on technology with the concern for sustainable human habitats.

This book attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around long-standing intractable conflicts — of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change. Each chapter in this volume offers a critical transformative narrative in response to these conflicts. It asks how social justice and equality is to be constructed and provides a fresh perspective.

It is argued that social movements can no longer be concerned only with itemizing a checklist of demands; it is now necessary to be free of the hegemony of current frames, categories, concepts and principles, and to rethink the ‘promise’. The volume maintains that this effort to step out of the ‘endless waiting’ for delivery of a ‘promised value’ draws out the labour of transformative action. A valuable contribution to understanding social movements in India, this work challenges the established discourses around grassroots politics, progressive policies and legislations as well as radical mass movements.

The book will interest students and researchers of social movements, conflict and peace studies, sociology and social anthropology, political science and development studies. It will also be useful to those working in the areas of human rights, social exclusion and inclusive policies.