Land conflicts and cooperatives along Pune's highways
Subtitle: Managing India's agrarian to urban transition
Contributors: Fainstein, Susan; Sanyal, Bish; Mansbridge, Jane; Sarkis, Hashim
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Description: The past ten years has been a decade of land wars in India. Rapid urbanization is spilling beyond city boundaries into the highways connecting large cities, instigating a frenzied consolidation and conversion of agricultural lands into urban/industrial lands. This process is fraught with conflict, as different social groups compete to stake their claims on the land value increments - the increases in land value due to the change in land use from agricultural to non-agricultural - of these newly converted highway lands.
Notes: Keywords: cooperatives, India, land conflicts, urban transition.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2013