Contesting the Indian city [[electronic resource] ] : global visions and the politics of the local / / edited by Gavin Shatkin

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.8/50954
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns - India
• Soggetto geografico: India Politics and government 21st century; India Social conditions 21st century
• Altri autori: ShatkinGavin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Contesting the Indian city
• ISBN: 1-4443-6704-8; 1-118-29582-X; 1-118-29585-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825524103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Urban and Social Change