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Pipe Politics, Contested Waters : Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai /

In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Björkman, Lisa, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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