Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Shah, Amrita (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 48-56

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

9 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch5

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) ‐ development of peripheral areas of city , natural disasters, newer parts of city ‐ far more than the old pol area , Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation ‐ 500 square kilometers, merging seven municipalities , Ahmedabad, a textile center ‐ aged monuments, fusing Hindu craftsmanship and local motifs with Islamic plan geometry, pointed arches, domes and jaalis , Ahmedabad, violence in 2002 ‐ spreading through the state , Gillion and “The spirit of Ahmedabad is utilitarian and materialistic” ‐ money, central preoccupation for the people , diamond polishing industry, in neighborhood Bapunagar ‐ area of bleak wide streets and crowded back lanes , refurbishing Ahmedabad state's principal city ‐ Gujarat into a “world‐class business destination” , wealth accumulation, favored ‐ resourcefulness and ingenuity in its making , Ahmedabad, India's seventh largest city ‐ ethnography of Indian city