Bhaktapur Nepal: Urban Space and Ritual
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Bhaktapur Nepal: Urban Space and Ritual
By (Author) Niels Gutschow
DOM Publishers
DOM Publishers
3rd April 2017
Germany
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Architectural structure and design
Urban communities
720.95496
Physical Properties
Hardback
540
Width 330mm, Height 255mm
Description
As one of the three royal centres of the Kathmandu Valley in the Nepalese Himalayas, Bhaktapur is a thriving city with some 40,000 inhabitants. Over almost two millennia, its original inhabitantsof the valley, the Newars, have shaped a unique urban culture that preserved a pre-industrial lifestyle until the middle of the twentieth century. The city
Author Bio
Niels Gutschow, b. 1941, studied architecture in Darmstadt. He divides his time between research into war-time and post-war architecture and town planning in central Europe and the history of architecture and sacred landscapes in India and Nepal. He is an honorary professor of Heidelberg University (South Asia Institute, Institute for the History of Culture and Religion in South Asia).
