Key words
Key words (Lecture 1 : urban, urbanism, urbanisation, rurban)
Keywords (Lecture 2) :
Origin of the city, city in the Neolithic era,
characteristics of ancient cities.
Key words (Lecture 3: Urban
Development of Communication )
Revolution,
Heterogeneity,
Implosion,
Key Words (Lecture 4 : Urban Community, Cultural factors, Political Autonomy,
Citizenship, Economic interdependence, Legal equality)
Key words (Lecture 5 : Urbanisation- history, chronology, expansion, sites)
Key Words (Lecture 6 : Ancient cities- sources, characteristics, types.)
Keywords (Lecture 7 : Urbanisation, Medieval India, temple towns, Mughal
capitals, external trade )
Key words (Lecture 8 : Industrial Revolution, social transformation, condition of
labour, urbanisation, environmental degradation)
Key words : (Lecture 9 : French Revolution, problem of order, Ferdinand
Tonnies, Gemeinschaft versus Gesellschaft )
Key Words : (Lecture 10 : Engels, capitalist city, Manchester, condition of the
working class, class exploitation )
Key words : (Lecture 11 : Engels, city planning, capitalist industrialisation,
alienation, civic apathy )
Key words : (Lecture 12 : Simmel, microsociology, metropolitan life, calculative
rationality, blasé attitude, )
Key Words (Lecture 13 : The influence of money as a pure symbol of value,
means of universal exchange, levelling influence, growth of professionalization )
Key Words (Lecture 14 : Ecological Theory, Chicago School, human ecology as a
model, urban life as biotic and cultural )
Key Words (Lecture 15 : Robert Park, modern city, density, mobility, anonymity,
natural habitats, specialization, freedom)
Key words (Lecture 16 : Enest Burgess, spatial patterning, concentric zone
model, )
Key Words (Lecture 17 : Louis Wirth, Urbanism as a way of life, social
heterogeneity, particular forms of social organisation in the urban context)
Key Words (Lecture 18: Urbanism, dense anonymity, disinvolvement,
fragmented personality, secularisation of life)
Key Words (Lecture 19 : Compositional school, city as a mosaic, quasi-primary
relations, Herbert Gans, Ulf Hannerz)
Key Words (Lecture 20 : Variety in lifestyles, Social Class, Ethnicity, Life cycle
stage, Gender as variables )
Key Words (Lecture 21 : Claude S. Fischer, subcultural theory, size, ethnicity,
location, education, income)
Key Words (Lecture 22 : Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, socio-spatial theory,
circuits of capital, real estate development, role of the government, global
economic changes, new urban sociology)
Key words (Lecture 23: technology and the city, mutual influences,
transportation technology, technologies of communication)
Key words (Lecture 24: application of the ecological perspective, technology
induced compartmentalization of space, growth of notions of privacy, class
divisions, dissemination of technology).
Key words (Lecture 25: Technology and the rise of a 'pre-mature' metropolis,
printing press, steamer, motor car, roads, taps, urbanisation in Calcutta)
Key words (Lecture 26 : Opposition to technology, environmental consequences,
aesthetics, public debates )
Key Words (Lecture 27 : Opposition to overhead conductors, streetcars, trolleys,
electrification, 19th century America, safety issues )
Key Words (Lecture 28 : Technology and role of cultural values, culture of the
streets, transformation of city life, political and social struggles )
Key words (Lecture 29 : Neighbourhoods, socio-spatial category, gemeinscahft
spaces, little economies, political community )
Key words (Lecture 30 : Urban Neigbourhood, Pols of Ahmedabad, enclosed
communities, defence oriented structure, pol council )
Key Words (Lecture 31 : Community level organizations, Commercialization of
the locality, Social problems and changes)
Note: There is a repetition of a slide in Lecture 30 and 31 about the social,
economic and political activities of a Pol.
Key words (Lecture 32 : Ghetto as an urban institution, social exclusion,
parochialism, globalization and new ghettos based on the concept of class )
Key words (Lecture 33 : Urban City Planning, 19th century, segregation of
activities, centrally located space, preoccupation with design )
Key words (Lecture 34 : city planning, municipal consciousness, reform
movements, modernist preoccupation, zoning)
Keywords (Lecture 35 : zoning, participatory planning, stakeholders' interests,
pluralism in planning)
Keywords (Lecture 36 : pre-imperial port cities, organic cities, mixture of
planning and organic growth)
Keywords (Lecture 37 : colonial reconstruction, site of Mutiny, large-scale
demolition, hybrid city )
Keywords (Lecture 38 : Napier Plan, governmentality, militarization of the city,
rebellion-proof environment, New Lucknow )
Keywords (Lecture 39 : New Lucknow, cleanliness, orderliness, colonial
reconstruction, political control as imperative, social and political implications )
Key words (Lecture 40 : Constructing a new capital, administrative city,
modernist planning, Le Corbusier, symbolic of New India)
42. Keywords (Lecture 41 : Modernist planning, criticisms, un-Indian, dispersal
of buildings, use of space, unsuitable material, functional efficiency)