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Book SynopsisContesting 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 real estate industry together in an international publication
Trade Review“This volume is sure to provide a useful set of framings and background for scholars, policy-makers and activists to make sense of fragmented and undemocratic governance in India’s cities.” (Urban Studies, 1 May 2015)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii
Series Editors’ Preface ix
Preface and Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction: Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local 1
Gavin Shatkin and Sanjeev Vidyarthi
2 Contested Developments: Enduring Legacies and Emergent Political Actors in Contemporary Urban India 39
Liza Weinstein, Neha Sami, and Gavin Shatkin
3 Conflict and Commensuration: Contested Market Making in India’s Private Real Estate Development Sector 65
Llerena Guiu Searle
4 “One-Man Handled”: Fragmented Power and Political Entrepreneurship in Globalizing Mumbai 91
Liza Weinstein
5 Power to the People? A Study of Bangalore’s Urban Task Forces 121
Neha Sami
6 Social Conflict and the Neoliberal City: A Case of Hindu–Muslim Violence in India 145
Ipsita Chatterjee
7 Gentrifying the State: Governance, Participation, and the Rise of Middle-Class Power in Delhi 176
D. Asher Ghertner
8 Becoming a Slum: From Municipal Colony to Illegal Settlement in Liberalization Era Mumbai 208
Lisa Björkman
9 Building a “World Class Heritage City”: Jaipur’s Emergent Elites and the New Approach to Spatial Planning 241
Sanjeev Vidyarthi
10 Planning Mangalore: Garbage Collection in a Small Indian City 265
Neema Kudva
11 Comparative Perspectives on Urban Contestations: India and China 293
Gavin Shatkin
Index 311
