An Urban Design Study in The Walled City of Hyderabad by Arjun Kamal Mangaldas SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE DEGREE MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FEBRUARY 1987 Arjun Kamal Mangaldas 1987 The author hereby grants to M.I.T. permission to reproduce and to distribute publicly copies of this thesis document in whole or in part. Signature of the author Arjun Kamal Mangaldas Department of Architecture December 18, 1986 I N Certified by William Yym n Porter Professor of Architecture and lanning Thesis Supervisor 'A .10 Accepted by -N udy D ytd Miftchell Chairman Departmen al Committee on Graduate Students MaSSCoETSmmSittee MA SSACHUSET TS INSITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FEB 2 5 1987 UBRARIE5 Room 14-0551 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 Ph: 617.253.2800 MITLibraries Email:
[email protected] Document Services http://Iibraries.mit.edu/docs DISCLAIMER NOTICE The accompanying media item for this thesis is available in the MIT Libraries or Institute Archives. Thank you. An Urban Design Study in the Walled City of Hyderabad by Arjun Kamal Mangaldas Submitted to the Department of Architecture on December 18, 1986 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Architecture ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to approach the Islamic city in India from a viewpoint which recognizes that the distinctions between cultural sections in a city are not only social and spatial but also physical, being manifest in the built environment. In this sense Hyderabad can be seen as a cross-cultural laboratory for investigating how two or more cultures (Muslim, Hindu, and a distinctly Western/colonial) operated in the same geographical environment but at different levels of social, economic, and physical development under conditions of monarchic rule.