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  • Stabi Berlin  (3)
  • Bibliothek Wandlitz
  • GB Letschin
  • McFarlane, Colin  (3)
  • Ethnology  (3)
  • 1
    UID:
    gbv_1681941643
    ISBN: 9780203085332
    Series Statement: Cities and the Urban Imperative
    Content: This book provides an important account of how the city in South Asia is produced, lived and contested. It examines the diverse lived experiences of urban South Asia through a focus on contestations over urban space, resources and habitation, bringing together accounts from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. In contrast to accounts that attribute urban transformation mainly to neoliberal globalisation, this book vividly demonstrates how neoliberalism functions as one of the many drivers of urban change. This edited volume brings together an interdisciplinary and international range of estab
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction Conceptualising the City in South Asia; Part I: Contested Landscapes; 1. The Nuisance of Slums: Environmental Law and the Production of Slum Illegality in India; 2. Poverty as Geography: Motility, Stoppage and Circuits of Waste in Delhi; 3. Shillong: The (Un) Making of a North-East Indian City?; 4. The Divided City? Squatters' Struggle for Urban Space in Kathmandu; 5. Spectacular Events, City Spaces and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi , Part II: Infrastuctures and Materialities6. The Embeddedness of Cost Recovery: Water Reforms and Associationism at Bangalore's Fringes; 7. Ignoring Power: Knowing Leakage in Mumbai's Water Supply; 8. 'No Horn Please': Self-Governance and Sociality in a Kathmandu Housing Colony; 9. Gated Communities as Packaged Fantasies: A Meeting of the Local and the Global and the Standardisation of Taste in Urban Sri Lanka; Part III: Imagining the Urban; 10. Sri Lanka: Terror, Anxiety and the Unstable Nation - A Physical Biography of Violence , 11. City of Lights: Nostalgia, Violence and Karachi's Competing Imaginaries12. Sacrifice and Dystopia: Imagining Karachi through Edhi; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Index;
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780415617604
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781138665026
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Urban navigations London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2011 ISBN 9780415617604
    Language: English
    Subjects: Ethnology
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    Keywords: Südasien ; Stadt ; Electronic books# ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 2
    UID:
    gbv_1697982514
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 196 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781315730554 , 9781317549314 , 9781317549321
    Content: 1. Introduction / Andres Luque-Ayala, Colin McFarlane and Simon Marvin -- 2. Smart cities and the politics of urban data / Rob Kitchin, Tracey P. Lauriault and Gavin McArdle -- 3. IBM and the visual formation of smart cities / Donald McNeill -- 4. The smart entrepreneurial city : Dholera and 100 other utopias in India / Ayona Datta -- 5. Getting smart about cities in Cape Town : beyond the rhetoric / Nancy Odendaal -- 6. Programming environments : environmentality and citizen sensing in the smart city / Jennifer Gabrys -- 7. Smart city initiatives and the Foucauldian logics of governing through code / Francisco R. Klauser and Ola Soderstrom -- 8. Geographies of smart urban power / Gareth Powells, Harriet Bulkeley and Anthony McLean -- 9. Test bed as urban epistemology / Nerea Calvillo. [et al.] -- 10. Beyond the corporate smart city? Glimpses of other possibilities of smartness / Robert G. Hollands -- 11. Conclusion / Colin McFarlane, Simon Marvin and Andres Luque-Ayala.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781138844223
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781138844230
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Smart urbanism London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016 ISBN 9781138844223
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781138844230
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1138844225
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1138844233
    Language: English
    Subjects: Geography , Ethnology
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    Keywords: Verstädterung ; Intelligenter Sensor ; Informationstechnik ; Smart City ; Governance ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 3
    UID:
    gbv_738753912
    Format: Online-Ressource (XI, 201 S.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    ISBN: 9781409441328
    Content: This book produced by a group of interdisciplinary and international researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and informal urbanism. It critically interrogates both the ways in which 'informal' and 'formal' are put to work in the governing and politicisation of cities, and their conceptual strengths and weaknesses
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Informal-formal Divide in Context; 1 Juggling with Formality and Informality in Housing: Some Lessons from the New South Africa; 2 Urban Informality Reconsidered in a Neoliberal Context; 3 'Informal Moral Economies' and Urban Governance in India; 5 Informality as a Strategy: Street Traders in Hanoi Facing Constant Insecurity; 6 Informality as Borrowed Security: Contested Food Markets in Dhaka, Bangladesh; 7 Hip-hop and Sociality in a Brazilian Favela; 8 The Mode of Informal Urbanisation; 9 Conceptualising Informality , Index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781409441335
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Urban informalities Farnham [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2012 ISBN 1409441326
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781409441328
    Language: English
    Subjects: Geography , Ethnology , Sociology
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    Keywords: Urbanität ; Governance ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift
    Author information: Waibel, Michael 1969-
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