Contesting the Indian City
Global Visions and the Politics of the Local
Studies in Urban and Social Change
1. Auflage September 2013
332 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
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. Papers, which are organized around contestation over the terms of access to urban space, representation in political processes, and knowledge generation and the terms of access to information about the city, serve to deepen our understanding of the changes Indian cities are experiencing.
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
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
--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
