 | Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City Subjects: City planning -- Pakistan -- Lahore -- History -- 19th century; Architecture -- Pakistan -- Lahore -- 19th century; Architecture British colonial -- Pakistan -- Lahore; Lahore (Pakistan) -- Buildings structures etc; William J. Glover investigates the traditions that shaped colonial Lahore, focusing on the conviction that both British and Indian actors who implemented urbanization shared: that the material fabric of the city could lead to social and moral improvement.Glover reveals that urban change in colonial India was not a monolithic process and establishes Lahore as a key site for understanding the genealogy of modern global urbanism. |
