Contesting the Indian City

Global Visions and the Politics of the Local
Herausgegeben von Shatkin, Gavin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contesting the Indian City features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modern India.

Features studies that serve to deepen our theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencing
Examines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shaping urban spatial change in India
The first volume to bring themes of urban political reform, municipal finance, land markets, and real estate industry together in an international publication

Produktdetails

• Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9781444367034
• ISBN-10: 144436703X
• Artikelnr.: 39318285

Autorenporträt

Gavin Shatkin is Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. His research focuses on contemporary urban redevelopment practices in Asian cities, urban inequality, and community organizing and collective action around issues of shelter and infrastructure delivery. His book Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation: Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila was published in 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Preface ix Preface and Acknowledgments x 1 Introduction:
Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local 1
Gavin Shatkin and Sanjeev Vidyarthi 2 Contested Developments: Enduring
Legacies and Emergent Political Actors in Contemporary Urban India 39 Liza
Weinstein, Neha Sami, and Gavin Shatkin 3 Conflict and Commensuration:
Contested Market Making in India's Private Real Estate Development Sector
65 Llerena Guiu Searle 4 "One-Man Handled": Fragmented Power and Political
Entrepreneurship in Globalizing Mumbai 91 Liza Weinstein 5 Power to the
People? A Study of Bangalore's Urban Task Forces 121 Neha Sami 6 Social
Conflict and the Neoliberal City: A Case of Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
145 Ipsita Chatterjee 7 Gentrifying the State: Governance, Participation,
and the Rise of Middle-Class Power in Delhi 176 D. Asher Ghertner 8
Becoming a Slum: From Municipal Colony to Illegal Settlement in
Liberalization Era Mumbai 208 Lisa Björkman 9 Building a "World Class
Heritage City": Jaipur's Emergent Elites and the New Approach to Spatial
Planning 241 Sanjeev Vidyarthi 10 Planning Mangalore: Garbage Collection in
a Small Indian City 265 Neema Kudva 11 Comparative Perspectives on Urban
Contestations: India and China 293 Gavin Shatkin Index 311

Rezensionen

"Each chapter is a brilliant incursion into one facet of "The Indian City" as presented in this book. Together the authors give us a refracted account of that complex condition that is a city. The chapters regularly seem to be in conversation with each other, an unusual achievement for a collection."
--Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, and author of Territory, Authority, Rights

"Global flows have created deep contestations and hybrid conditions in Indian cities that are often incomprehensible to planners and policy makers. This book offers a nuanced and scholarly reading of this complex landscape through examining 'potent samples' at all scales across a range of Indian cities. An extremely well timed book, given the intellectual void in the debate on contemporary Indian Cities."
--Rahul Mehrotra, Architect and Professor of Urban Design, Harvard University