From British East India Company to British Raj: A GIS-Based Morphological study of the British Colonial Towns in the Indian subcontinent (1750-1950)

探讨殖民和城市化之间的关系，中心论题是：(1)在英国殖民印度次大陆的最初几年，新的城市发展确保了“殖民者”和“被殖民者”之间的分离，后者被征服，而(2)后来的城市化在大英帝国统治下变得更加一体化。为了检验这一点，采取了一种新的方法，分析了印度殖民行政区划城镇的城市形式及其发展轨迹。本文将以“Conzenian”城市地貌学家提出的以地图证据为基础的“城市规划分析”方法为基础，将当前欧洲中心的历史地貌研究扩展到印度次大陆。

Exploring the relationship between colonization and urbanization, the central thesis is that (1) in the early years of British colonization in the Indian subcontinent, new urban developments ensured segregation between 'colonizer' and 'colonized', with the subjugation of the latter, while (2) later urbanism became more integrated under British Imperial rule. To examine this, a novel approach is taken, analyzing urban forms of colonial administrative towns in India and their development trajectories. Using 'town-plan analysis', a method advanced by 'Conzenian' urban morphologists using cartographic evidence as a base, the thesis will geographically extend current Eurocentric historico-morphological studies to the Indian sub-continent.