Exploring Urban Change in South Asia – serie
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19 produkter
Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi
Av Surajit Chakravarty, Rohit Negi
Inbunden, 2016
1316 kr
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This insightful volume examines the politics and contestations around urban space in India’s national capital, Delhi. Moving beyond spectacular megaprojects and sites of consumption, this book engages with ordinary space and everyday life. Sites and communities analysed in this volume reveal the …
Middle India and Urban-Rural Development
Four Decades of Change
Inbunden, 2015
1098 kr
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Middle India and Rural-Urban Development explores the socio-economic conditions of an ‘India’ that falls between the cracks of macro-economic analysis, sectoral research and micro-level ethnography. Its focus, the ‘middle India’ of small towns, is relatively unknown in scholarly terms for good …
Small Towns and Decentralisation in India
Urban Local Bodies in the Making
Inbunden, 2016
551 kr
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This book examines the impact that decentralisation reforms, initiated in the early 1990s, have had on small towns in India. It specifically focuses on small towns in Uttar Pradesh, one of the most densely populated and poorest states in India. Although considered home to one of the oldest urban …
Middle India and Urban-Rural Development
Four Decades of Change
Häftad, 2016
1098 kr
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Middle India and Rural-Urban Development explores the socio-economic conditions of an ‘India’ that falls between the cracks of macro-economic analysis, sectoral research and micro-level ethnography. Its focus, the ‘middle India’ of small towns, is relatively unknown in scholarly terms for good …
Subaltern Urbanisation in India
An Introduction to the Dynamics of Ordinary Towns
Av Eric Denis, Marie-Hélène Zérah
Inbunden, 2017
1752 kr
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This volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization. The volume is organised in four sections. A first one deals with …
Social Dynamics of the Urban
Studies from India
Av N. Jayaram
Inbunden, 2017
1425 kr
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This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of urban space in globalising India. Distinguishing between ‘locale’ and ‘milieu’ and the community–cosmopolitanism dialectic in urban areas, it elucidates …
Subaltern Urbanisation in India
An Introduction to the Dynamics of Ordinary Towns
Av Eric Denis, Marie-Hélène Zérah
Häftad, 2018
1752 kr
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This volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization. The volume is organised in four sections. A first one deals with …
Social Dynamics of the Urban
Studies from India
Av N. Jayaram
Häftad, 2018
989 kr
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This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of urban space in globalising India. Distinguishing between ‘locale’ and ‘milieu’ and the community–cosmopolitanism dialectic in urban areas, it elucidates …
Sustainable Urbanization in India
Challenges and Opportunities
Inbunden, 2017
1425 kr
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This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment. The volume is contextualized against latest theories, debates and discussions on 'sustainable urbanization', the post‐2015 …
Mainstreaming Climate Co-Benefits in Indian Cities
Post-Habitat III Innovations and Reforms
Av Mahendra Sethi, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira
Inbunden, 2018
1261 kr
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This volume presents a novel framework to understand urban climate co-benefits in India, that is, tackling climate change and achieving sustainable development goals in cities. It utilizes methods and tools from several assessment frameworks to scientifically evaluate sector co-benefits for …
Sustainable Urbanization in India
Challenges and Opportunities
Häftad, 2019
989 kr
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This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment. The volume is contextualized against latest theories, debates and discussions on 'sustainable urbanization', the post‐2015 …
Mainstreaming Climate Co-Benefits in Indian Cities
Post-Habitat III Innovations and Reforms
Av Mahendra Sethi, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira
Häftad, 2018
1261 kr
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This volume presents a novel framework to understand urban climate co-benefits in India, that is, tackling climate change and achieving sustainable development goals in cities. It utilizes methods and tools from several assessment frameworks to scientifically evaluate sector co-benefits for …
Blue Infrastructures
Natural History, Political Ecology and Urban Development in Kolkata
Inbunden, 2020
551 kr
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This book focuses on Kolkata, formerly the colonial capital of and currently a major megacity in India, in terms of its extensive blue infrastructures, i.e., its rivers, canals and wetlands as an integrated composite whole. It unfolds ways in which this reclaimed urban space could determine, and in …
Blue Infrastructures
Natural History, Political Ecology and Urban Development in Kolkata
Häftad, 2021
569 kr
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This book focuses on Kolkata, formerly the colonial capital of and currently a major megacity in India, in terms of its extensive blue infrastructures, i.e., its rivers, canals and wetlands as an integrated composite whole. It unfolds ways in which this reclaimed urban space could determine, and in …
Politics of Urban Planning
The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014–2034
Av Luca Pattaroni, Amita Bhide m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1534 kr
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This book offers an interdisciplinary and dynamic account of the politicization of urban planning in Mumbai, India. It presents a unique perspective on the tensions and conflicts pervading the development and regulation of contemporary cities in the wider context of global urbanization, and …
Politics of Urban Planning
The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014–2034
Av Luca Pattaroni, Amita Bhide m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
1534 kr
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This book offers an interdisciplinary and dynamic account of the politicization of urban planning in Mumbai, India. It presents a unique perspective on the tensions and conflicts pervading the development and regulation of contemporary cities in the wider context of global urbanization, and …
City, Marginality and Education
Tribal Migrants in Kolkata
Av Ruchira Das
Inbunden, 2025
1173 kr
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This book examines the socially segregated Santals, a tribal community that migrated from various parts of Bengal and its neighbouring states of Bihar, Orissa, and Jharkhand to Kolkata, a city currently driven by capitalist-consumerist forces that pose a challenge in terms of the community’s …
Urbanisation and Urban Policies in India
Trends, Patterns and Emerging Perspectives
Av Ram B. Bhagat, Mohammad Izhar Hassan
Inbunden, 2025
1861 kr
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The volume examines urbanization and migration trends and their patterns in the light of India's emerging urban policy, planning and governance perspectives. It sheds light on the differences in urbanization between developed and less developed parts of the world, with a particular focus on India. …
Urbanisation and Urban Policies in India
Trends, Patterns and Emerging Perspectives
Av Ram B. Bhagat, Mohammad Izhar Hassan
Häftad, 2026
1861 kr
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The volume examines urbanization and migration trends and their patterns in the light of India's emerging urban policy, planning and governance perspectives. It sheds light on the differences in urbanization between developed and less developed parts of the world, with a particular focus on India. …
