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Changes of State: Slow‐Motion Trauma in the Gangetic Plains of India
Author(s) -
Acciavatti Anthony
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1132
Subject(s) - natural disaster , agrarian society , urbanization , monsoon , climatology , climate change , geography , history , meteorology , archaeology , agriculture , geology , oceanography , ecology , biology
In recent years, the vicissitudes wrought by harsh weather patterns and natural disasters have resulted in hurricanes and earthquakes and had a catastrophic impact on people's lives. The Ganges River Corridor in northern India is a region that perennially undergoes extreme changes in weather and climate with the onslaught of the monsoon season. Anthony Acciavatti , in his Dynamic Atlas series of drawings, has measured the effects of rainfall and agrarian processes in relation to the fast‐paced modes of urbanisation in the area. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.