CONTENTS 

Foreword 
Pratapaditya Pal 


Introduction 
Baiju Natarajan 


Thiruvananthapuram / City of a Horizontal God 
Paul Zacharia 

Kollam / Urbanization in Tourism’s Own Landscape 
Annapurna Garimella 

Alleppey / A Hidden Fortress Made of Water 
Baiju Natarajan 

Kottayam / The Hills Are Moist 
C.R. Omanakuttan 

Kochi / The Other City 
T.V. Sajeev 

Thrissur / Round and Around the town
Nalini Jameela 

Palakkad / Some Threads Including the Sacred 
E. P. Unny 

Kozhikode / Yesterday and Today 
M. G. S. Narayanan 

Kannur / Monumental, Monolithic 
Dileep Raj and Reshma Bharadwaj