Overview
- Brings into view the ordinary spaces and spatial contestations involved in planning and urbanization in an Indian megacity
- Provides a ground-up view of the effects of neoliberal policies on the everyday lives of Delhi’s citizens
- Is of novel significance in understanding how a complex society with variegated native and migrant populations negotiates with urban and developmental processes and programmes
- Contributes to theory on the themes of urbanization, neoliberalism and governance, through grounded empirical analyses from the global South
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia (EUCS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Informalization and Investment
Keywords
- Class wars in Indian cities
- Delhi Commonwealth Games project
- Delhi Master Plan
- Delhi resettlement colonies
- Economic liberalization and urban environment in India
- Everyday spaces of the city
- Governing street hawkers in Indian cities
- Hospitality and Indian cities
- Industrial landscapes in Indian cities
- Neighbourhoods and Indian metropolises
- Old Delhi street life
- Politics of mobility in India
- Slums in Delhi
- Suburban spaces in Delhi
- Transnational migrant population in Delhi
- Unauthorized urban colonies in Delhi
- Urban citizenship in India
- Urban planning in Delhi
- Urban villages in Delhi
- Women domestic workers in Indian cities
About this book
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Surajit Chakravarty, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at ALHOSN University, Abu Dhabi. Surajit holds a PhD in Policy, Planning and Development (University of Southern California) and a Master’s in Urban Planning (University of Illinois). His research focuses on the politics of urbanization and the production of space. He is particularly interested in themes of informality, civic engagement, housing, and planning for diversity. His ongoing projects are based in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Abu Dhabi and Delhi.
Rohit Negi, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University Delhi. Rohit has a PhD in Geography (Ohio State University) and Masters in Urban Planning (University of Illinois), and his research interests span the intersections of capitalism, urbanism and ecology, with regional specialization in Southern Africa and South Asia. Negi’s work has been published in journals including Geoforum, Journal of Southern African Studies, and Economic and Political Weekly, and in popular publications like Himal Southasian, The Hindu and The Tribune.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi
Editors: Surajit Chakravarty, Rohit Negi
Series Title: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2154-8
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature India Private Limited 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2153-1Published: 11 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-2154-8Published: 04 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2367-0045
Series E-ISSN: 2367-0053
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 233
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Social Policy