This interesting volume discusses urbanization in India's national capital, Delhi, through its effect on marginal spaces and everyday life. It moves away from analyses of spectacular megaprojects and sites of consumption, towards "ordinary" spaces and contestations. These spatial contestations have the potential to reveal the processes, relations, and logic through which the city's grand plans are executed. The contributors argue that urbanization is actually negotiated and muddled, in particular, through spaces of informal labour, mass resettlement districts, and niches occupied by...
This interesting volume discusses urbanization in India's national capital, Delhi, through its effect on marginal spaces and everyday life. It moves a...
A strong feature of the book is its analysis of how government policies that fail to take into account the realities of small town life in India have unintended and often perverse consequences.
A strong feature of the book is its analysis of how government policies that fail to take into account the realities of small town life in India have ...
This book examines the impact that decentralisation reforms, initiated in the early 1990s, have had on small towns in India. It specifically focuses on small towns in Uttar Pradesh, one of the most densely populated and poorest states in India.
Although considered home to one of the oldest urban civilisations, India remains one of the least urbanised regions in the world. At the same time, the country has many million-strong metropolises that are among the world s largest megacities, as well as a multitude of small and medium-sized towns and cities. This paradoxical urbanisation,...
This book examines the impact that decentralisation reforms, initiated in the early 1990s, have had on small towns in India. It specifically focuse...
This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of urban space in globalising India. Distinguishing between 'locale' and 'milieu' and the community-cosmopolitanism dialectic in urban areas, it elucidates the thematic for urban sociology today.
The chapters explore the various perspectives and processes in understanding the urban predicament in India today. The contributors specifically ask: What are the characteristics of the fastest growing cities in India? What are the forces...
This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of u...
This volume presents a novel framework to understand urban climate co-benefits in India, that is, tackling climate change and achieving sustainable development goals in cities. (3) Sectoral analyses of co-benefits in energy, transport, buildings, waste, and biodiversity, and (4) Innovations and reforms needed to promote co-benefits in cities.
This volume presents a novel framework to understand urban climate co-benefits in India, that is, tackling climate change and achieving sustainable de...
