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Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization

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Abstract
The fast-paced growth of the Indian economy and particularly its cities has produced an urban crisis, one that is marked by the lack of adequate infrastructure and growth management as well as by sharp social divisions that are starkly etched in a landscape of bourgeois enclaves and slums. In this context, there are numerous calls for a more decisive and vigorous type of planning that can `future-...
Keywords
Urbanization
Context (archaeology)
Ambiguity
Urban planning
Political economy
Deregulation
Corporate governance
Poverty
Politics
Impossibility
Political science
Development economics
Economy
Sociology
Economic growth
Economics
Geography
Market economy
Law
Ecology
Linguistics
Philosophy
Archaeology
Finance
Biology
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Sustainable cities and communities



Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization

Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization

Citations:

1227

References:

30

Abstract
The fast-paced growth of the Indian economy and particularly its cities has produced an urban crisis, one that is marked by the lack of adequate infrastructure and growth management as well as by sharp social divisions that are starkly etched in a landscape of bourgeois enclaves and slums. In this context, there are numerous calls for a more decisive and vigorous type of planning that can `future-...
Keywords
Urbanization
Context (archaeology)
Ambiguity
Urban planning
Political economy
Deregulation
Corporate governance
Poverty
Politics
Impossibility
Political science
Development economics
Economy
Sociology
Economic growth
Economics
Geography
Market economy
Law
Ecology
Linguistics
Philosophy
Archaeology
Finance
Biology
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Sustainable cities and communities