Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral MEGACITY

Rahul Mehrotra and Felipe Vera

ISBN 10: 9385285076 / ISBN 13: 9789385285073

Published by Niyogi Books, 2015

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The volume presents the comprehensive research findings and includes city maps, aerial images, analytical drawings and photographs of this spectacular Ephemeral Mega City for the Kumbh Mela. Kumbh Mela is the largest religious celebration on earth and the biggest public gathering in the world. The resulting settlement is a virtual mega city! The Kumbh Mela deploys its own roads, pontoon bridges as well as tents serving as residences and venues for spiritual meetings, and social infrastructure such as hospitals, sanitation outlets and vaccination clinics all replicating the functions of an actual city. The pop-up settlement seamlessly serves up to seven million people who gather for 55 days and an additional flux of 10 to 20 million people who come for 24-hour cycles on the six main bathing dates. In 2013, a team from Harvard University, representing faculty from multiple disciplines, researched the large-scale event from its preparation to the actual celebration itself. This was the first systematic study on the Mela as a City: a planned entity and covers issues of social inclusion, diversity, and even democracy that emerge under the framework of a neutralizing grid of roads that is the organizing armature of the city. This subdivision of the city forms clusters of freedom and facilitates space for individual and group expression. (jacket).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral MEGACITY
• Publisher: Niyogi Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9385285076
• ISBN 13: 9789385285073
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Language: EnglishPages: 450 (Throughout Color Illustrations)About the Book KumbhMela is the largest religious celebration on earthand the biggest public gathering in the world. The resulting settlement is avirtual mega city! The Kumbh Meladeploys its own roads, pontoon bridges as well as tents serving as residencesand venues for spiritual meetings, and social infrastructure such as hospitals,sanitation outlets and vaccination clinics-all replicating the functions of anactual city. The pop-up settlement seamlessly serves uptoseven million people, who gather for 55 days, and an additional flux of [0to20millionpeople, who come for za-hour cycles on the six mainbathing dates. In 2013, a teamfrom Harvard University, representing faculty from mu