
Understanding India's New Approach to Spatial Planning and Development
A Salient Shift?
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 6. July 2017
Book
Hardback
298 pages
978-0-19-947264-2 (ISBN)
Description
Is there a political and economic struggle when it comes to spatial development and planning of India's urban and rural landscapes? This book brings together the ongoing shift in India's approach to spatial planning and development in line with changes in the country's polity. Taking the regime change in the early 1990s as a point of departure, it focuses on transformations in the distinct, but interrelated, domains of infrastructure finance and development, local spatial planning practice, and on-the-ground empirical outcomes.
Instead of covering large cities-such as Kolkata, Mumbai, and Delhi-that dominate the discourse on urban India, the authors pay close attention to fine-grained aspects of the shift away from the well-theorized Nehruvian planning and development model. The innovative approach helps illustrate how the tensions between democratic and market-oriented impulses shape India's existing and emergent settlements in a manner that could be uneven and largely invisible while drawing out useful insights for scholars and practitioners working in the field.
Instead of covering large cities-such as Kolkata, Mumbai, and Delhi-that dominate the discourse on urban India, the authors pay close attention to fine-grained aspects of the shift away from the well-theorized Nehruvian planning and development model. The innovative approach helps illustrate how the tensions between democratic and market-oriented impulses shape India's existing and emergent settlements in a manner that could be uneven and largely invisible while drawing out useful insights for scholars and practitioners working in the field.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-947264-2 (9780199472642)
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Persons
Sanjeev Vidyarthi is an associate professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Shishir Mathur is an Associate Dean (Research), College of Social Sciences, and a professor in the Urban and Regional Planning Department at San Jose State University.
Sandeep K. Agrawal is a professor and Inaugural Director of the Urban and Regional Planning Program at the University of Alberta.
Shishir Mathur is an Associate Dean (Research), College of Social Sciences, and a professor in the Urban and Regional Planning Department at San Jose State University.
Sandeep K. Agrawal is a professor and Inaugural Director of the Urban and Regional Planning Program at the University of Alberta.
Author
Associate professorAssociate professor, University of Illinois, Chicago.
Associate Dean (Research)Associate Dean (Research), San Jose State University
ProfessorProfessor, University of Alberta
Content
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS/MAPS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; PREFACE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS