Shatkin Contesting the Indian City

Global Visions and the Politics of the Local
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-29584-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Studies in Urban and Social Change

Contesting the Indian City features a collection ofcutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues ofpolitics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modernIndia.
* Features studies that serve to deepen our theoreticalunderstandings of the changes that Indian cities areexperiencing
* Examines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, andreforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shapingurban spatial change in India
* The first volume to bring themes of urban political reform,municipal finance, land markets, and real estate industry togetherin an international publication

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shatkin, Gavin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface ix
Preface and Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction: Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions andthe Politics of the Local 1
Gavin Shatkin and Sanjeev Vidyarthi
2 Contested Developments: Enduring Legacies and EmergentPolitical Actors in Contemporary Urban India 39
Liza Weinstein, Neha Sami, and Gavin Shatkin
3 Conflict and Commensuration: Contested Market Making inIndia's Private Real Estate Development Sector 65
Llerena Guiu Searle
4 "One-Man Handled": Fragmented Power and PoliticalEntrepreneurship in Globalizing Mumbai 91
Liza Weinstein
5 Power to the People? A Study of Bangalore's Urban TaskForces 121
Neha Sami
6 Social Conflict and the Neoliberal City: A Case ofHindu-Muslim Violence in India 145
Ipsita Chatterjee
7 Gentrifying the State: Governance, Participation, and the Riseof Middle-Class Power in Delhi 176
D. Asher Ghertner
8 Becoming a Slum: From Municipal Colony to Illegal Settlementin Liberalization Era Mumbai 208
Lisa Björkman
9 Building a "World Class Heritage City":Jaipur's Emergent Elites and the New Approach to SpatialPlanning 241
Sanjeev Vidyarthi
10 Planning Mangalore: Garbage Collection in a Small Indian City265
Neema Kudva
11 Comparative Perspectives on Urban Contestations: India andChina 293
Gavin Shatkin
Index 311

Über Autor(innen)

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.