Contesting 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
Table des matières
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
A propos de l’auteur
Gavin Shatkin is Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. His research focuses on contemporary urban redevelopment practices in Asian cities, urban inequality, and community organizing and collective action around issues of shelter and infrastructure delivery. His book Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation: Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila was published in 2007.
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