Urbanization and governance in India
By: edited by Evelin Hust, Michael Mann.
Contributors: Hust, Evelin.; Mann, Michael, 1959-; France. Ambassade (India). Centre for Human Sciences.; Universität Heidelberg. Südasien-Institut. New Delhi Branch.
Series: South Asia studies / South Asia Institute, New Delhi Branch, Heidelberg University ;; no. 42; South Asian studies ;; no. 42.
Publisher: Manohar; Distributed in South Asia by Foundation Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Urbanization -- India.; Cities and towns -- India -- Growth.; City and town life -- India.
Description: Contributed articles on urbanization, growth of cities and towns in India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Centre de Sciences Humaines, South Asia Institute."
"A publication of the French Research Institutes in India & South Asia Institute, New Delhi"--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Governing India's urban environment : problems, policies, and politics / Bhaskar Vira and Shiraz Vira; title: Planning of Indian mega-cities : issues of governance, the public sphere, and a pinch of civil society / Joël Ruet; title: Women, and urban development : do they make a difference? a case study of the municipal corporation of Delhi / Stephanie Tawa Lama-Rewal; title: Slum as achievement : governmentality, and the agency of slum dwellers / Martin Fuchs; title: Towards an improved urban governance of public services : water supply and sanitation / Marie-Hélene Zérah; title: Reflections on urbanization in water : infrastructure and local discourse in a town in the making / Bettina Weiz; title: Waste and the city : public responses to the problems of municipal solid waste management in Indian metropolitan cities / Michael Köberlein; title: Pigs and power : urban space and urban decay / Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp; title: Planning urban chaos : state and refugees in post-partition Delhi / Ravinder Kaur; title: Town-planning and urban resistance in the old city of Delhi, 1937-77 / Michael Mann; title: Urban villages of Delhi / Ajay K. Mehra; title: Residential practices, creation, and use of urban space : unauthorized colonies in Delhi / Véronique Dupont.