{"product_id":"recovering-delhis-red-fort-von-hemani-singh","title":"Recovering Delhi''s Red Fort","description":"\u003cp\u003eRed Fort, Delhi was built in the seventeenth century  as the fortress palace of the newly found capital of  Shahjahanabad. Built of red sandstone, the fort  occupied a huge chunk of land along the river Yamuna. Today, after more than 350 years of turbulent  history, the fort stands virtually as an empty shell  with a confused mixture of structures within. It  stands isolated in terms of its context, Old Delhi  (Shahjahanabad) and confused in terms of its usage. The fort is literally a contested landscape in which  claims on the same terrain are constantly being  renegotiated.   Through this book the author tries to demonstrate  some of the opportunities that can be uncovered at  different scales to begin to articulate the various  claims on the fort into a constructive process. The fort is studied historically, contextually and  spatially before arriving at a series of proposals  that begin to show where a new coherence could be  established in terms of attitudes towards the Red  Fort and perhaps in terms of contemporary  interventions...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783838377858\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePresence of Past in the Present\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783838377858","offer_id":39469276233821,"sku":"9783838377858","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/eb954e64-452e-4f2e-8726-f869d4099bbd.jpg?v=1758779414","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/recovering-delhis-red-fort-von-hemani-singh","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}