New forms of urban governance in India
Subtitle: shifts, models, networks and contestations
By: edited by I.S.A. Baud, J. de Wit.
Contributors: Baud, I. S. A.; Wit, J.
Publisher: SAGE Publications; Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9788178299051
Subjects: Municipal government -- India -- Citizen participation; City planning -- India; Decentralization in government -- India
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shifts in urban governance : raising the questions / I.S.A. Baud and J. de Wit; title: Urban governance in India-spotlight on Mumbai / M. Pinto; title: Urban decentralization in Indian cities : assessing the performance of neighbourhood level wards committees / J. de Wit, N. Nainan and S. Palnitkar; title: Institutionalising people's participation in urban governance : an inter-city perspective of the ward committees in West Bengal / A. Ghosh and M. Mitraá; title: Negotiating for participation : decentralization and NGOs in Mumbai, India / N. Nainan and I.S.A. Baud; title: Governance in urban environmental management : comparing accountability and performance in multi-stakeholder arrangements in south India / I.S.A. Baud and R. Dhanalakshmi; title: Law, urban policies and the role of intermediaries in Delhi / I. Milbert; title: New management tools for Mumbai's SWM / S. Redkar; title: Partnerships in action : a people's view / A. Bhide; title: New forms of governance in Hyderabad : how urban reforms are redefining actors in the city / L. Kennedyá; title: New forms of contestation and cooperation in Indian urban governance / N. Sridharan; title: The courts and the squatter settlements in Delhi or the intervention of the judiciary in urban "governance" / V. Dupont and U. Ramanathan; title: Whose ball game is it anyway? / A. Adarkar.