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Soft cover. Condizione: New. Contents: Introduction. Part I: Changing Contexts and the Role of the State in Housing Provision. 1. Housing Policies in Recent Brazil. 2. Towards a More Humane Urbanism: Low-Income Housing in Urban India. 3. The Kruschyovka Kalashnikov. 4. (De) Embracing Enabling Housing Strategies? Evidence from Southern Countries. Part II: Redevelopment of Slums. 5. Brazilian Favelas: Two Decades of Public Policies. 6. Settlement in a Smartening City . 7. Urban-Poor Housing Development in Asia: From Target Group to Negotiating Partner. Part III: Informal Housing and Right to the City. 8. The Politics of Poverty and Property in Indian Metros: The Case of Kathputli Colony in New Delhi. 9. Approaches to Informal Settlements and Livelihood-building Processes in Durban. 10. For a Pedagogy of Co-existence in the Polis. Part IV: Environmental Re(Configurations) of Urban Infrastructure, Housing and Livelihoods. 11. The BRICS New Development Bank s False Dawn: Unsustainable Urban Infrastructure Finance in South Africa. 12. Location, Livelihoods and Environment in Contemporary Delhi. 13. The Role of Small Towns in Mediating Rapid Urbanisation: Insights from Northeast China. 14. Class and Tenancy Relations in Calcutta, 1914 1926. Index. In the twenty-first century, for the first time in history, the world s urban population exceeded its rural population. However, the rural urban migration driving this urbanisation in developing countries has resulted in a growing informal economic sector and informal settlements such as slums. This informality lies at the heart of urban policy challenges in developing countries. This volume highlights the connected issues of urban housing, livelihoods and environment through perspectives from key emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Thailand so as to harness the different histories of different societies for an exploration of common contemporary problems. Researchers and practitioners working on policy formulation, critical research and grassroots activities from around the world provide case studies, micro-histories and macro-comparisons that shed light on the vexed problem of unchecked urbanisation in developing nations. Key questions are highlighted: the role of the state in low-income urban housing; the role of the community and civil society in the context of ethnic diversity and informality of urban growth; and the impact of liberalisation and globalisation on housing policies. The authors advocate involving the poor in housing questions so that they become negotiating partners in navigating solutions that affect their lives and livelihoods. Critiquing the imposition of a smart cities mentality onto ill-prepared urban spaces, they highlight the unequal burden this places on the urban poor and their ways of living, moving and working in the cities. Instead, the authors stress the need for creative, inclusive policies that can provide sustainable solutions for modern cities. This exciting and critically important volume will interest urban and environmental planners, policy-makers, civil society organisations and urban management professionals. Students and scholars of urban studies and urban sociology will also find these perspectives engaging.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Contents: Acknowledgement. Introduction/Annapurna Shaw. I. Globalisation and urban restructuring: 1. Globalisation and the management of Indian cities/Nigel Harris. 2. Urbanisation and urban governance: search for a perspective beyond neo-liberalism/Amitabh Kundu. 3. Population change and economic restructuring in Indian Metropolitan Cities: a study of Mumbai/K. Sita. II. Environmental impacts of liberalisation: 4. Partnerships of hope: new ways of providing sanitation services in urban India/Susan Chaplin. 5. Impact of tenure and infrastructure programmes on housing conditions in squatter settlements in Indian cities/Banashree Banerjee. 6. Air pollution in India: the post-liberalisation era/Nilanjan Ghosh. III. Economic dimensions of the post-1990s reforms: 7. Industry--urban nexus: the role of agglomeration economies/Arup Mitra. 8. The role of world markets and international networks in the evolution of India's high-tech clusters: riding the coat tails or bucking the trend?/Subhrajit Guhathakurta and Balaji Parthasarathy. 9. Informal workers in Ahmedabad city/Jeemol Unni and Uma Rani. 10. Mumbai since liberalisation: the space-economy of India's gateway city/Jan Nijman. IV. Political economy of change in the planning and management of cities: 11. Post-Fordist urban space of Mumbai: the saga of contemporary restructuration/Swapna Banerjee-Guha. 12. The housing market in Mumbai metropolis and its irrelevance to the average citizen/R.N. Sharma. 13. A city divided? Planning and urban sprawl in the eastern fringes of Calcutta/Keya Dasgupta. 14. A city with many borders: beyond Ghettoisation in Ahmedabad/Darshini Mahadevia. V. Liberalisation and its micro-level impacts: social and economic mobility in Indian cities: 15. Diversity in patterns of urbanisation: the long-duree of an industrial area in Calcutta/Arjan De Haan. 16. Life aspirations and embedded contexts: gender and vocational training in segmented labour markets in Indian cities/Saraswati Raju and Isa Baud. 17. A new map of Indian industrial society: the cartographer all at sea/Mark Holmstrom. Index. List of contributors. "Urban India has been in transition for centuries but, perhaps, never more so than since the last decade of the twentieth century when the national economy was opened wide to international trade and competition. Indian Cities in Transition seeks to understand the nature of change that Indian cities are undergoing from a multidisciplinary perspective. There are seventeen essays in the volume, encompassing the work of urban planners, geographers, demographers, social anthropologists, economists and political scientists. They examine the processes of demographic, environmental, economic, political and social change, and their impact on Indian cities." (jacket). …