The troubled passage from 'village communities' to planned new town developments in mid-twentieth-century South Asia

Urban History

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 108-127

  Glover, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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RURAL SOCIETY; TOWN PLANNING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN SOCIETY; URBANIZATION; VILLAGE;

INDIA;

EID: 84855829404     PISSN: 09639268     EISSN: 14698706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963926811000800     Document Type: Article

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