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Mumbai: A Metropolis Forged in Lasting Fragments of Urbs Prima in Indis

  • Devashree Vyas (author)
Chapter of: Urban Heritage and Sustainability in the Age of Globalisation(pp. 11–30)
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Title Mumbai
SubtitleA Metropolis Forged in Lasting Fragments of Urbs Prima in Indis
ContributorDevashree Vyas (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0412.01
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0412/chapters/10.11647/obp.0412.01
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
CopyrightDevashree Vyas
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-09-26
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In Chapter One, Devashree Vyas analyses the urban development of Mumbai, India, a city originally established on an archipelago of seven islands. Focusing on the typologies of the city’s constituent heritage, the author examines its colonial, post-colonial and contemporary heritages in order to shed light on collective identities in the context of widespread urban development and heritage conservation difficulties.

Page rangepp. 11–30
Print length20 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Devashree Vyas

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Devashree Vyas earned her bachelor’s degree in architecture from Mumbai University and has since worked primarily on projects related to heritage conservation, particularly within urban civic fabrics. She also achieved a master’s degree in the World Heritage Studies programme at Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg in Germany. She is currently affiliated with Ancestry Deutschland and works on digitisation of archives.

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