{"product_id":"indias-contemporary-urban-conundrum-9781138326804","title":"Indias Contemporary Urban Conundrum","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book lays out the different and complex dimensions of urbanisation in India. It brings together contributors with expertise in fields as varied as demography, geography, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, architecture, planning and land use, environmental sciences, creative writing, filmmaking and grassroots activism to reflect on and examine India's urban experience. It discusses various dimensions of city lifehow to define the urban; the conditions generating work, living and (in)security; the nature of contemporary cities; the dilemmas of creating and executing urban policy, planning and governance; and the issues concerning ecology and environment. The volume also articulates and evaluates the way Indian urbanism promotes and organises aspirations and utopias of the people, whilst simultaneously endorsing disparities, depravities and conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume includes interventions that shape contemporary debates. Comprehensive, accessible and t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ePreface Introduction: Revisiting Urban India \u003cb\u003eI Debate on Defining the Urban \u003c\/b\u003eRurbanisation: An Alternate Development Paradigm Subaltern Urbanisation Revisited \u003cb\u003eII Conditions Generating Work, Living and (In)Security \u003c\/b\u003eOnly ‘Good People’, Please: Residential Segregation in Urbanising India Inclusive Urbanisation: Informal Employment and Gender Resettlement, Mobility and Women’s Safety in Cities Cities for Healthy People \u003cb\u003eIII Cities of Contemporary India \u003c\/b\u003eThe Planned and the Unplanned: Company Towns in India The Logistical City Cities and Smartness Public Spaces and Places: Gendered Intersectionalities in Indian Cities Reading the City through Art \u003cb\u003eIV Urban Policy, Planning and Governance \u003c\/b\u003eIndia’s ‘Urban’ and the Policy Disconnect Changing Trajectories of Urban Local Governance Urban Development, Housing and ‘Slums’ Engine Urbanism Post-national Urbanism: ‘Ordinary’ People, Capital and the State \u003cb\u003eV Ecology, Environment and Well-Being \u003c\/b\u003eThe Art of Evolution Nurturing Urban Commons for Sustainable Urbanisation The Unsustainable Urban Waste Economy: What is to be Done? The Canal and the City: An Urban–Ecological Lens on Chennai’s Growth Cities: Changing the Metaphor to Quality of Life\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577821106519,"sku":"9781138326804","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138326804.jpg?v=1746096812","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/indias-contemporary-urban-conundrum-9781138326804","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}