{"product_id":"contesting-the-indian-city-isbn-9781444367041","title":"Contesting the Indian City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContesting the Indian City\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures studies that serve to deepen our theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencing\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shaping urban spatial change in India\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe first volume to bring themes of urban political reform, municipal finance, land markets, and real estate industry together in an international publication\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  Notes on Contributors vii  \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGavin Shatkin and Sanjeev Vidyarthi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Contested Developments: Enduring Legacies and Emergent Political Actors in Contemporary Urban India 39\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiza Weinstein, Neha Sami, and Gavin Shatkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Conflict and Commensuration: Contested Market Making in India’s Private Real Estate Development Sector 65\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLlerena Guiu Searle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 “One-Man Handled”: Fragmented Power and Political Entrepreneurship in Globalizing Mumbai 91\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiza Weinstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Power to the People? A Study of Bangalore’s Urban Task Forces 121\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeha Sami\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Social Conflict and the Neoliberal City: A Case of Hindu–Muslim Violence in India 145\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIpsita Chatterjee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Gentrifying the State: Governance, Participation, and the Rise of Middle-Class Power in Delhi 176\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eD. Asher Ghertner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Becoming a Slum: From Municipal Colony to Illegal Settlement in Liberalization Era Mumbai 208\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLisa Björkman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Building a “World Class Heritage City”: Jaipur’s Emergent Elites and the New Approach to Spatial Planning 241\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSanjeev Vidyarthi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Planning Mangalore: Garbage Collection in a Small Indian City 265\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeema Kudva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Comparative Perspectives on Urban Contestations: India and China 293\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGavin Shatkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 311\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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.”  (\u003ci\u003eUrban Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 May 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGavin Shatkin\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCollective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation: Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAccording to United Nations projections, India’s urban population will grow faster than that of any other country over the next 30 years, increasing by more than 350 million during that period. Despite this transformation, there are as yet few book-length treatments that address the political economy of the contemporary, post-liberalization Indian city in comparative perspective. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContesting the Indian City\u003c\/i\u003e examines the contradictions and contestations of India’s current urban moment, as historically entrenched urban forms, rooted in cultural dynamics and legacies of Nehruvian state-sponsored modernization, face mounting pressure with the emergence of powerful new political actors around the push toward economic growth and the commodification of urban space. Bringing together a collection of theoretical explorations and empirical studies, the volume offers important insights into issues of politics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modern India. In doing so, it deepens theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencing, and of the comparative implications of the Indian experience for contemporary debates about urban politics. Enlightening and timely, \u003ci\u003eContesting the Indian City\u003c\/i\u003e contributes greatly to urgent debates about the political dynamics that underlie urban development in contemporary India.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Each chapter is a brilliant incursion into one facet of ‘the Indian city’ as presented in this book. Together the authors give us a refracted account of that complex condition that is a city. The chapters regularly seem to be in conversation with each other, an unusual achievement for a collection.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, and author of Territory, Authority, Rights\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Global flows have created deep contestations and hybrid conditions\u003cbr\u003e in Indian cities that are often incomprehensible to planners and policy\u003cbr\u003e makers. This book offers a nuanced and scholarly reading of this complex\u003cbr\u003e landscape through examining ‘potent samples’ at all scales across a range of Indian cities. An extremely well-timed book, given the intellectual void in the debate on contemporary Indian cities.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rahul Mehrotra, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Each chapter is a brilliant incursion into one facet of “The Indian City” as presented in this book. Together the authors give us a refracted account of that complex condition that is a city. The chapters regularly seem to be in conversation with each other, an unusual achievement for a collection.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eSaskia Sassen, Columbia University, and author of \u003ci\u003eTerritory, Authority, Rights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Global flows have created deep contestations and hybrid conditions in Indian cities that are often incomprehensible to planners and policy makers. This book offers a nuanced and scholarly reading of this complex landscape through examining ‘potent samples’ at all scales across a range of Indian cities. An extremely well timed book, given the intellectual void in the debate on contemporary Indian Cities.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eRahul Mehrotra, Architect and Professor of Urban Design, Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988985102565,"sku":"NP9781444367041","price":96.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444367041.jpg?v=1761782316","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/contesting-the-indian-city-isbn-9781444367041","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}