LEADER 05165nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910825524103321 005 20230126203249.0 010 $a1-4443-6704-8 010 $a1-118-29582-X 010 $a1-118-29585-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001111793 035 $a(EBL)1441756 035 $a(OCoLC)856625422 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1441756 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1441756 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748644 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL511685 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001111793 100 $a20130619d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 200 00$aContesting the Indian city$b[electronic resource] $eglobal visions and the politics of the local /$fedited by Gavin Shatkin 210 $aChichester, West Sussex $cJohn Wiley & Sons Inc.$d2014 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 225 0$aStudies in urban and social change 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4443-6703-X 311 $a1-299-80434-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContesting 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $a3 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 327 $aFragmented 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 327 $a6 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? 327 $aConclusion: Globalization of Local Conflicts 330 $aContesting the Indian City features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modern India. Features studies that serve to deepen our theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencing Examines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shaping urban spatial change in India The first volume to bring themes of urban political reform, municipal finance, land markets, and re 410 0$aStudies in Urban and Social Change 606 $aCities and towns$zIndia$vCase studies 607 $aIndia$xPolitics and government$y21st century 607 $aIndia$xSocial conditions$y21st century 615 0$aCities and towns 676 $a320.8/50954 701 $aShatkin$b Gavin$0329422 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825524103321 996 $aContesting the Indian city$93919293 997 $aUNINA