Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781118295830
,
9781118295847
,
9781118295854
Series Statement:
Studies in urban and social change
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and The Politics of the Local -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local -- Rethinking Understandings of Urban Politics in Post-Liberalization Indian Cities -- Understanding Urban Political Change from the Ground Up: The Findings of the Case Studies -- The emergence of tentative efforts to re-scale urban governance through program innovations and ad hoc decision making -- The emergence of "network politics" as a central dynamic of power -- The interaction between spatial transformation and political change -- The diversity of Indian cities' experience of state reconfigurations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- 2 Contested Developments: Enduring Legacies and Emergent Political Actors in Contemporary Urban India -- Pre-Liberalization Antecedents to Contemporary Urban Governance -- Liberalization and the Emergence of New Agendas for Urban Political Reform -- The Role of Urban Political Actors -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Conflict and Commensuration: Contested Market Making in India's Private Real Estate Development Sector -- Introduction -- Indian Developers and Foreign Investors -- Making a New Market I: Government Reforms -- Making a Market II: Investor-Developer Collaborations -- The Politics of Commensuration -- What Is the Value of Companies? -- What Is the Value of Land? -- What Is the Value of Expertise? -- Two Different Fields of Practice -- Value Projects -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 4 "One-Man Handled": Fragmented Power and Political Entrepreneurship in Globalizing Mumbai -- Introduction -- Fragmented Power and Strategic Partnerships -- A Man with a Plan -- "One-Man Handled".
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781444367041
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781118295823
Language:
English
Keywords:
Indien
;
Städtebau
;
Stadtentwicklung
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