{"product_id":"cubbon-park-the-green-heart-roopa-pai-9789354472343","title":"Cubbon Park the Green Heart of Bengaluru","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescription\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 150 years ago, in 1870, a public park was inaugurated in Bangalore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned by British engineer Richard Sankey, it spread over 100 acres and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eencompassed features typical to the city-granite outcrops, lush greenery, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewide avenues and government buildings. Originally named Meade's Park, it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehas been known to generations of Bangaloreans as Cubbon Park-sanctuary, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elung space, thoroughfare, battlefield, picnic spot, repository of urban\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebiodiversity, and public park.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, the first of its kind about Cubbon Park, author, columnist and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etrue-blue Bangalorean Roopa Pai, attempts to decode the enduring appeal of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Park. Historical sketches trace the story of not just Cubbon Park, but that of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMysore state and the city itself. Her conversations with Bangaloreans of today\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshow the Park in all its contested glory, even as she writes about the open music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espaces it once hosted and its diverse flora and fauna, the powerful lurking at its\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efringes, waiting to gobble it up, and the citizen activists who tirelessly protect it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeart-warming and meticulously researched, Cubbon Park is an enduring\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esnapshot of a precious green space that is as much an idea as a physical entity, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas fragile as it is powerful, as divisive and as it is unifying, and always central\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto the city's imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roopa Pai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9354472346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789354472343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Tiger Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.43d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roopa Pai","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44080424288511,"sku":"9789354472343","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b335e7bb-48e9-4310-8f0a-57c6d6d63127.jpg?v=1685486702","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cubbon-park-the-green-heart-roopa-pai-9789354472343","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}