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Anchored in architectural history and theory, my interests range from the critique of present-day suburbia to the analysis of historical practices in colonial cities of South Asia. My primary research has focused on eighteenth - century English architecture, landscape, and urbanism, colonial cities in India and Indonesia, nineteenth - and twentieth - century American architecture, landscape, and urbanism, and especially nineteenth - and twentieth - century English and American suburbs. Among the critical issues on which my teaching and writing have focused are the role of built space in the production of identity, the complex and various functions of dwellings in human cultures, and the role of media, marketing, and government interests in the genesis of present-day paradigms of suburbia.