Planners City
July 18, 2009 nihal 24 other publications
This paper narrates how a new perception of the city based on British town planning was established in Colombo, the former capital of Sri Lanka. The norms imported with the Housing Ordinance of 1915 and the larger town planning discourse problematized the living environments of the poor residents, requiring solutions that were not available in Colombo. The imported planning perception of the city focused the attention of the authorities on the capitalist city, ain over the colonial city, marginalizing the poor. Moreover, it made it necessary for authorities to intervene into poor neoghborhoods. Many changes to this (colonial) perception were introduced in Sri Lanka after independence, but they do not represent any substantial cultural questioning of this discourse. This is the contribution of this study.
This paper narrates how a new perception of the city based on British town planning was established in Colombo, the former capital of Sri Lanka. The norms imported with the Ho...
