Urbanization and governance in India /
edited by Evelin Hust, Michael Mann.
- 1st ed.
- New Delhi : Manohar : Distributed in South Asia by Foundation Books, 2005.
- 345 p. : 1 map ; 25 cm.
- South Asia studies / South Asia Institute, New Delhi Branch, Heidelberg University ; no. 42 .
- South Asian studies ; no. 42. .
"Centre de Sciences Humaines, South Asia Institute." "A publication of the French Research Institutes in India & South Asia Institute, New Delhi"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references.
Governing India's urban environment : problems, policies, and politics / Bhaskar Vira and Shiraz Vira -- Planning of Indian mega-cities : issues of governance, the public sphere, and a pinch of civil society / Joël Ruet -- Women and urban development : do they make a difference? : a case study of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi / Stephanie Tawa Lama-Rewal -- Slum as achievement : governmentality, and the agency of slum dwellers / Martin Fuchs -- Towards an improved urban governance of public services : water supply and sanitation / Marie-Hélène Zérah -- Reflections on urbanization in water : infrastructure and local discourse in a town in the making / Bettina Weiz -- Waste and the city : public responses to the problems of municipal solid waste management in Indian metropolitan cities / Michael Köberlein -- Pigs and power : urban space and urban decay / Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp -- Planning urban chaos : state and refugees in post-partition Delhi / Ravinder Kaur -- Town-planning and urban resistance in the old city of Delhi, 1937-77 / Michael Mann -- Urban villages of Delhi / Ajay K. Mehra -- Residential practices, creation, and use of urban space : unauthorized colonies in Delhi / Véronique Dupont.
Contributed articles on urbanization, growth of cities and towns in India.
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