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082 _a307.1412
_bMAH
100 _aMahadevia, Darshini Ed.
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245 _aInside the transforming urban Asia : processes, politics and public actions
260 _aNew Delhi
_bConcept Pub. company
_c2008
300 _axxx,650p.
505 _aCONTENTS Preface v List of Tables xi Lists Boxes, Figures and Maps xvii List of Photographs , xix Acronyms xxi Contributors xxix 1. Inside Urbanising Asia 1 Darshini Mahadevia 2. Metropolitan Employment in India 56 Darshini Mahadevia 3. Slumbay to Shanghai: Envisioning Renewal or Take Over? 94 Darshini Mahadevia and Harini Narayanan 4. Changes and Continuities in Development Priorities: 132 Ahmedabad Darshini Mahadevia and Harpreet Singh Brar 5. Inclusive or Contested: Conceptualising a Globalised 170 Bangalore Solomon Benjamin 6. Globalisation and Infrastructure Development in Cities of 194 China: Comparing Beijing and Dongguan Darshini Mahadevia INCLUSIONS AND EXCLUSIONS IN STATE POLICY 7. 'Fractured' Terrain, Spaces left over, or Contested: 239 A Closer Look at the IT-Dominated Territories in East and South Bangalore Solomon Benjamin, R. Bhuvaneswari, P. Rajan and Manjunath 8. Inter-City and Intra-City Inequity in China: Case of 286 Tianjin and Chongqing Darshini Mahadevia 9. Financing Urban Development in Delhi: Towards Inclusive 325 Globalisation? Shipra Maitra 10. Basic Infrastructure, Public Finance and Slum Dwellers: 361 Ahmedabad Darshini Mahadevia and Harpreet Singh Brar 11. Slum Demolitions and Production of Neo-liberal Space: Delhi 391 La/it Batra and Diya Mehra 12. Demolition of Lives and Livelihoods: Mumbai 415 Harini Narayanan, Darshini Mahadevia and Riby Rachel Mathew 13. Water for a Globalising Metropolis: Policies and Problems 451 in Hyderabad C. Ramachandraiah 14. Hanoi: A Case Study on Urban Development and Planning 465 in Post-Reform Vietnam Shrawan Kumar Acharya 15. Security of Housing Tenure in the People's Republic of 500 China: Background, Trends and Issues David G. Westendorff 16. Urban Renewal in Shanghai: Issues, Strategies and 521 Social Implications Lim Pohim 17. Singapore's Experience in Housing and Urban Development 532 Lim Lan Yuan PUBLIC ACTION 18. Shanghaing Mumbai: Politics of Evictions and 549 Resistance in Slum Settlements Darshini Mahadevia and Harini Narayanan 19. Dynamics and Contours of Resisting Displacement in Mumbai 590 Amita Bhide 20. Slums and Civil Society: The Limits of Urban Activism 601 Supriya Roychowdhury References ' 619 Index 645
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