Urban parallax
Subtitle: policy and the city in contemporary India
By: edited by Amita Bhide and Himanshu Burte
Publisher: Yoda Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9789382579632
Subjects: Urban policy; Urbanization; Urban Sociology; Cities and towns
Description: Urban policy, and particularly, the knowledge base and fundamental assumptions behind the same have rarely been the subject of scholarship in India. As the urban becomes a significant phenomenon in India, however, several fundamental questions need to be debated as a guide to policy. Urban Parallax fills this lacuna by deconstructing urban policy and asking some critical questions about knowledge of the urban and of policy from multiple perspectives. Economists, sociologists, geographers, planners, and architects provide insight in this timely volume to foundational premises such as the relationship between urbanization and growth, its relationship with inequality, issues of centralization vs decentralization, the issue of differing scales of policy application, and when does policy seem to work and not work. An authoritative book by specialists, and yet accessible to every informed reader, this book will be of interest to policymakers, urban practitioners, scholars and students of urban studies and anthropology, as well as every concerned citizen of the Indian city--back cover.
Notes: Contributed articles.

"Aga Khan Agency for Habitat"--Cover page 4.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Onno Ruhl, General Manager, Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, S.A.; title: Introduction / Amita Bhide and Himanshi Burte; title: Whither India's Urbanization? / Om Prakash Mathur; title: Engines without Drivers: Cities in India's Growth Story / Partha Mukhopadhyay; title: On Matters Urban: Back to Basics / Abhay Pethe, Vaidehi Tandel and Sahil Gandhi; title: The Marginalization of the Spatial / Malini Krishnankutty; title: Local as a Policy Space: A Counterpoint called Mumbai / Amita Bhide; title: Hybrid Urban Governance in Mizoram: Negotiating with the Standardized Policy Regime of the JNNURM / Lalitha Kamath; title: The Mirage of Inclusive Growth? Metropolitan Expansion and Emerging Livelihoods in the New Urban Periphery / M. Vijayabaskar and Radha Varadarajan; title: Overcoming the Urban Synecdoche / Anant Maringanti; title: Housing, Common Sense and Urban Policy in India / Gautam Bhan; title: Out of Time: Policy Temporality and Urban Process / Himanshu Burte; title: On Urban Futures: Utopias and Dystopias / Darshini Mahadevia.