Acciavatti, Anthony

Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India's Ancient River - ORO Editions 2015 - 402: ill.

Reaching through the very heart of some of India's most densely populated cities, small towns, industrial zones, sacred sites, and mountainous forests, Ganges Water Machine by Anthony Acciavatti, composed of eight years of field and archival research, explores and theorises about the people and infrastructures that shaped this territory. Ganges Water Machine is an atlas of the enterprise to make the Ganges River basin into a highly engineered landscape: it reveals the narratives and explanations that allowed engineers and planners to realise fantasies previously only imaginable on paper or in myth.

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Agriculture
Atlas
Ganga river basin
Monsoon
Population
Visual Culture

VSCL / ACC