The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

8.1 | Edge 1: Land. Calcutta from the Hooghly.
8.2 | Edge 2: Sea. Chowringhee from the Maidan.
The Maidan, Calcutta
terpreted as singular, transparent, or functional; rather it seemed various
and ambiguous, opaque in the sense of being difficult to classify and define.
Gillian Rose’s comment that cultural difference “is not about mapping diversity
across the territory of Western space, but rather about moments of
opacity,” 6 can be applied to the Eastern/Western space of the Maidan—a
place Eastern in location, Western in origin.