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Fringe areas of the metropolitan cities have become the most crucial sites of India's hi-tech services-driven new urban economy-as well as its complexities and contradictions. With global investments pouring in, new age smart cities, ultra-modern apartments and gleaming software technology parks have started sprouting up in the areas, once considered as rural outskirts of the big cities. But, conversion of agricultural lands has become controversial over livelihood vulnerabilities of the rural communities. Regional- and state-level political actors have a crucial arbitrating role at this...

Looking through the prism of the Information Technology clusters, in three globalising cities of India, this book explores how variations in sub-national and local political cultures impact urban development patterns by mediating forces emerging out of global economic demand and a uniform national regulatory regime. The research underscores the importance of the local institutional dynamics, in steering developmental trajectories at the urban scale. The research contributes to urban governance literature, by showing how an analytical framework, designed in the context of the Global North,...