This statement forms the basic premise for the proposed research study. An attempt has been made to search for the inherent order in the seemingly "unplanned" squatter settlements. / Spatial order, an expression of the socio-cultural milieu of the residents, needs multi-disciplinary analysis. The research methodology selected encompasses the principles of spatial (morphological) analysis and the field work techniques of ethnography. Data has been collected empirically from the field. Since the proposed research uses a case-study research design, analysis and interpretation is qualitative rather than quantitative. / The study has been conducted in a trial and error, sequential process. Various models and methods have been used in this search for spatial order. The process tested the hypothesis at different levels---geometric, functional and social, and finally documented the residents' viewpoints. This was deemed essential as the residents are the actual generators of this built environment. The first two levels could not verify the hypothesis on their own accord but when overlaid by the third component, all three added-up to indicate the existence of order in squatter settlements.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1971. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

No description available.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Anthropology, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 317-341).

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 317-341) An ethnography of fakirs' mystical mastery based on fieldwork at the thirteenth century Muslim shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya.

As Indian cities expand, conflicts over limited potable water supply and access are intensifying. These conflicts place water at the center of socio-spatial, cultural, political and ecological tensions in the city. Women from urban poor neighborhoods resort to stealing, storing, buying and borrowing water to meet the daily needs of their households. However, land tenure determines access to water. Exercising its juridical powers, the state legalizes certain spaces and practices (planned neighborhoods; buying and storing water) and criminalizes others (slums; stealing water). Thus, the state controls: i) who has legal access to potable water; ii) how potable water is legally collected; and iii) where potable water is legally available. My research uses a mixed methods approach to analyze water access, supply and management in New Delhi, India. Using primary data collected in 2009-2010 through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and participant observation, I analyze how women from two urban poor neighborhoods of New Delhi (one, a regularized inner city slum and the other, a resettlement colony) access and use potable water. I also investigate how city planners, state officials, and engineers, perceive water needs and water collection strategies of the residents from low-income neighborhoods. My findings indicate that the state’s responses to the lack of water security in Delhi are limited to technical and engineering solutions aimed at addressing the ‘water problems’ (Zerah, 2000), which, in turn normalize discourses of scarcity (Mehta, 2005; Swyngedouw, 2003), theft and overuse (Baviskar, 2003). I argue that water security is a discourse that draws on the technicist and economistic approaches of Western-dominated international planning, and therefore all attempts to address water (in)security that emerge from this discourse leads to water policies that ignore social constructions and context of water, especially gender. I found that women from low-income neighborhoods bear a disproportionate burden of the social, political, and physical consequences of limited potable water access. In planned low-income neighborhoods, women’s vulnerabilities emerging from lack of access to potable water are exacerbated. This implies that planning in cities such as New Delhi is unable to address the daily water needs of urban poor women. These findings indicate that planning initiatives in cities such as New Delhi, should explicitly respond to the current practices and needs of women, thus minimizing the distance between technocrats and the urban poor. / text

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1955. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [200]-[205]). / by Sayed Saeedush Shafi. / M.C.P.

Ce mémoire porte sur la représentation des femmes de New Delhi et leurs perceptions d’elles-mêmes, comme filles et femmes dans la société indienne. Plus spécifiquement, les femmes rencontrées nous parlent de l’image des femmes en Inde, leur position et leur rôle dans la famille, en tant que filles, épouses et mères tout en étudiant leurs relations avec les autres (femmes et hommes). Dans l’objectif d’éclairer le phénomène de la sexo-sélection de l’enfant à naître et la discrimination basée sur le sexe, les rapports de genre pouvant être affectés par les pratiques et coutumes ont été analysés. Plus particulièrement, le discours et les expériences vécues des répondantes nous ont permis d’illustrer que les femmes rencontrées sont agentes de changement et qu’elles ont du pouvoir d’agir sur leurs vies. / This thesis is about the representation of women in New Delhi and their perceptions of themselves, as women and girls in Indian society. More specifically, the women interviewed talk about the image of "woman" in India, their positions and their roles in the family, as daughters, as wives and as mothers, but also studying the relations with others (women and men). With the aim to illuminate the phenomenon of sexual selection of the unborn child and discrimination based on gender, gender relations that can be affected by the practices and customs were analyzed. Specifically, it is through their discourse and their experiences that have enabled us to illustrate that women are agents of change and have the power to act on their lives.

No description available.

No description available.