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Governing the urban in China and India : land grabs, slum clearance, and the war on air pollution / Xuefei Ren.

De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 Available online

De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 188 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Place of Publication:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
Summary:
An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residents. Urbanisation is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This transformation has unleashed enormous pressures on land use, housing, and the environment. Despite the stakes, the workings of urban governance in China and India remain obscure and poorly understood. Ren explores how China and India govern their cities and how their different styles of governance produce inequality and exclusion. Drawing upon historical-comparative analyses and extensive fieldwork (in Beijing, Guangzhou, Wukan, Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata), Ren investigates the ways that Chinese and Indian cities manage land acquisition, slum clearance, and air pollution.
Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What Is Urban about Urban China and India?
  • 3. Land Grabs and Protests from Wukan to Singur
  • 4. Urban Redevelopment in Guangzhou and Mumbai
  • 5. Airpocalypse in Beijing and Delhi
  • 6. Territorial and Associational Politics in Historical Perspective
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
Notes:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 17, 2020).
  • Previously issued in print: 2020.
ISBN:
0-691-20341-5
OCLC:
1158110110

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