Austerity and Housing Design in India
by
Farhan Karim
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s—after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease—a time when architects, engineers, and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India’s urban poor and industrial workers. As Farhan...