%0 Conference Paper %B Theatres of decolonization: (architecture), agency, (urbanism): proceedings of the second "Other Connections" Conference %D 1999 %T Imagining the Indian City %X

The way town planners conceive cities in India is largely derived from British town planning experience in the belief that they are universal and modern. Even town planning laws are basically British constructions and have not evolved significantly since independence. There is no history of indigenous town planning thought to break the colonial influence on the way town planners conceive urban problems.

%B Theatres of decolonization: (architecture), agency, (urbanism): proceedings of the second "Other Connections" Conference %I Office of the Dean, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington %C Washington, USA %G EN %! Urbanism %( Economic and Political Weekly, No 46; 1997 pp. 2932-2936