The Kinetic City and other Essays
The Kinetic City and other Essays This book presents Rahul Mehrotra's writings over the last thirty years and illustrates his long-term engagement with and analysis of urbanism in India. Mehrotra…
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The Kinetic City and other Essays
This book presents Rahul Mehrotra's writings over the last thirty years and illustrates his long-term engagement with and analysis of urbanism in India. Mehrotra calls it the Kinetic City, which is the counterpoint to the Static City, as familiar to most of us from conventional city maps. This work has given rise to a new conceptualization of the city.
The framework is established in this publication by Rahul Mehrotra's anchor essay, which draws out its potential to "allow a better understanding of the blurred lines of contemporary urbanism and the changing roles of people and spaces in urban society."The emerging urban Indian condition, of which the Kinetic City is symbolic, is examined in this publication through a selection of He argues that the city should instead be perceived, read, and mapped in terms of patterns of occupation and associative values attributed to space.