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...