Contesting the Indian city : global visions and the politics of the local / edited by Gavin Shatkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shatkin, Gavin.

Series:

Studies in Urban and Social Change

Studies in urban and social change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--India--Case studies.

Cities and towns.

India--Politics and government--21st century.

India.

India--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014.

Summary:

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 re

Contents:

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"; Politics at the Margins; Challenging the Strategic Partnership; Discussion: Political Entrepreneurship and Fragmented Power; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 5 Power to the People?: A Study of Bangalore's Urban Task Forces; Introduction; Reconfiguring Bangalore: The BATF and ABIDe; The Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF); The Agenda for Bangalore Infrastructure Development (ABIDe); Conclusion: A Changing Urban Planning Paradigm; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Further Reading

6 Social Conflict and the Neoliberal City: A Case of Hindu-Muslim Violence in India Introduction; Local Cleavage, Neoliberal Globalization: Violence in Ahmedabad City; Conceptualizing Conflict; Conceptualizing Global-Local Neoliberalism in Place; Industrial restructuring: alive but excluded; Neoliberal urban renewal: renewing the city; Methodology: Investigating Us, Them, and the "Other"; The dying city and its ghosts; Whose "mega city"?; Sabarmati River Front Development Project (SRFD) and the divided urban poor; Economically weaker section (EWS) housing: separating grain from the chaff?

Conclusion: Globalization of Local Conflicts

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4443-6704-8

1-118-29582-X

1-118-29585-4

OCLC:

856625422