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Understanding Indias New Approach to Spatial Planning and Development

A Salient Shift?

by (author) Sanjeev Vidyarthi, Shishir Mathur & Sandeep Agrawal

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2017
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780199472642
    Publish Date
    Jun 2017
    List Price
    $61.50

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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. In addition to 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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Sandeep Agrawal is an internationally-recognized Canadian scholar of urban planning whose research focuses on local governance, human and Indigenous rights, migration, and energy transition. He is a Professor at the University of Alberta.

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