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Ecologies of Urbanism in India : Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability /
This book seeks to understand how rapidly proliferating and resource-intensive urbanism affects everyday lived environments and the ecological processes that undergird them in Indian cities. Case studies on nature conservation in the city, urban housing and slum development, waste management, the hi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong [China] :
Hong Kong University Press,
2013
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Helen F. Siu
- Preface and acknowledgments
- List of contributors
- 1. Introduction : ecologies of urbanism in India / Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan
- 2. Is there an "Indian" urbanism? / Janaki Nair
- 3. One air, two interventions : Delhi in the age of environment / Awadhendra sharan
- 4. The troubled passage from "village communities" to planned new town developments in mid-twentieth-century South Asia / William J. Glover
- 5. Flexible planning : the making of India's "millennium city" / Gurgaon Shubhra Gururani
- 6. From the frying pan to the floodplain : negotiating land, Water, and fire in Chennai's development / Karen Coelho and Nithya V. Raman
- 7. Value struggles : waste work and urban ecology in Delhi / Vinay Gidwani
- 8. Housing in the urban age : inequality and aspiration in Mumbai / Nikhil Anand and Anne Rademacher
- 9. Resettlement ecologies : environmental subjectivity and graduated citizenship in Mumbai / Sapana Doshi
- 10. Nuisance talk : middle-class discourses of a slum-free Delhi / D. Asher Ghertner
- Index.