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Ecologies of urbanism in India : metropolitan civility and sustainability

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press 2013Description: xviii,286pISBN:
  • 9789888139774
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  • 307.1416 RAD
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Contents List of Illustrations vii Foreword by Helen F. Siu ix Preface and Acknowledgments xiii List of Contributors xvii 1.Introduction: Ecologies of Urbanism in India Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan 1 2.Is There an 'Indian' Urbanism? 43 Janaki Nair 3. One Air, Two Interventions: Delhi in the Age of Environment 71 Awadhendra Sharan 4. The Troubled Passage from 'Village Communities' to Planned New Town Developments in Mid-Twentieth-Century South Asia William J. Glover 93 5. Flexible Planning: The Making of India's 'Millennium City,' Gurgaon 119 Shubhra Gururani 6. From the Frying Pan to the Floodplain: Negotiating Land, 145 Water, and Fire in Chennai's Development Karen Coelho and Nithya V. Raman 7. Value Struggles: Waste Work and Urban Ecology in Delhi 169 Vinay Gidwani 8. Housing in the Urban Age: Inequality and Aspiration in Mumbai 201 NikhilAnand and Anne Rademachervi 9. Resettlement Ecologies: Environmental Subjectivity 225 and Graduated Citizenship in Mumbai Sapana Doshi 10. Nuisance Talk: Middle-Class Discourses of a Slum-Free Delhi 249 D. Asher Ghertner Index 277
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Foreword by Helen F. Siu ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
List of Contributors xvii
1.Introduction: Ecologies of Urbanism in India
Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan 1
2.Is There an 'Indian' Urbanism? 43
Janaki Nair
3. One Air, Two Interventions: Delhi in the Age of Environment 71
Awadhendra Sharan
4. The Troubled Passage from 'Village Communities' to Planned New Town Developments in Mid-Twentieth-Century South Asia William J. Glover 93
5. Flexible Planning: The Making of India's
'Millennium City,' Gurgaon 119
Shubhra Gururani
6. From the Frying Pan to the Floodplain: Negotiating Land, 145
Water, and Fire in Chennai's Development
Karen Coelho and Nithya V. Raman
7. Value Struggles: Waste Work and Urban Ecology in Delhi 169
Vinay Gidwani
8. Housing in the Urban Age: Inequality and Aspiration in Mumbai 201
NikhilAnand and Anne Rademachervi
9. Resettlement Ecologies: Environmental Subjectivity 225
and Graduated Citizenship in Mumbai
Sapana Doshi
10. Nuisance Talk: Middle-Class Discourses of a Slum-Free Delhi 249
D. Asher Ghertner
Index 277

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