Discussion. Description of the Works, Recently Executed for the Water Supply of Bombay, in the East Indies.

Conybeare, H; Locke, John

doi:10.1680/imotp.1858.23745

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“…On the other hand, the only drained area of the city was the Fort, where mortality rates were considerably lower. He (1852: 40) assumed drainage was the solution, and argued that the drainage of crowded areas could halve mortality, ‘a saving of human life well worth any efforts that could be made by a Government or municipality’(and see also Conybeare, 1858).…”

Section: The Contaminated Citymentioning

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Governing the Contaminated City: Infrastructure and Sanitation in Colonial and Post‐Colonial Bombay

McFarlane

2008

Int J Urban Regional Res

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. (2008) 'Governing the contaminated city : infrastructure and sanitation in colonial and postcolonial Bombay.', International journal of urban and regional research., 32 (2). pp. 415-435. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j. 1468-2427.2008.00793.x Publisher's copyright statement:The denitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. 2 AbstractThis paper examines specific ways in which sanitation infrastructure matter politically both as a set of materials and as a discursive object in colonial and postcolonial Bombay. It reflects on a history of sanitation as a set of concepts which can both historicise seemingly "new" practices and shed light on the contemporary city. It considers two moments in Bombay"s "sanitary history" -the mid-nineteenth century and the present day -and elucidates the distinct and changing spatial imaginaries and logics of sanitation in their broad relation to urbanization and nature. The paper conceptualises colonial discourses of a "contaminated city" and public health, and finds productive sites of intersection between these discourses and contemporary debates and practices in Bombay, including bourgeois environmentalism, discourses of the "world city", and logics of community-managed sanitation infrastructures. It highlights an important role for urban comparativism, in the context of different imaginaries and logics, in both cases. By connecting infrastructure, public health discourses and modes of urban government, the paper traces a specific historical geography of cyborg urbanization that is always already splintered, unequal and contested. For the urban poor in particular, much is at stake in how the sanitary city is constructed as a problem, how the solutions to it are mobilized, and how improvement is measured.3

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Section: The Contaminated Citymentioning

confidence: 99%