Jaipur: Planned City, Rajasthan moves beyond the Pink City's famous facades to analyse the urban logic underpinning one of South Asia's most deliberately conceived pre-modern cities — its gridded street networks, broad avenues, and six distinct urban quarters.
About This Book
Jaipur is routinely celebrated for its chromatic uniformity and Mughal-inflected monuments, but this volume is concerned with something more structural: the underlying urbanism that makes Jaipur genuinely anomalous among pre-modern Indian cities. Moving district by district through the city's fabric beyond the palace walls, the book traces the geometric rigour of its planned street grid and the spatial logic that organises civic life within each urban quarter. For architects and urban historians, it is an opportunity to read a historic city not as spectacle but as system — and to understand how that system continues to shape the built environment of its old centre.
Key Features
- 246 pages of urban analysis, architectural history, and documentation of Jaipur's historic city fabric
- Edited by Alain Borie
- Published by Altrim Publishers
What You'll Discover
- How Jaipur's six urban quarters were conceived as a coherent planned structure, distinguishing it from other pre-modern Indian cities
- The relationship between the palace precinct and the broader residential and commercial fabric of the old city
- The spatial hierarchy of broad avenues and gridded secondary streets as instruments of urban order
- What direct engagement with Jaipur's urban fabric reveals about the principles of historic South Asian city planning
About the Author
Alain Borie serves as editor of this volume. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 246
- Dimensions: 250 x 250 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788494933011
- Publisher: Altrim Publishers
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and urban designers with an interest in historic city planning, academics and students of South Asian urbanism, and researchers studying pre-modern planned cities.