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Urbanization and governance in India

Title
Urbanization and governance in India / edited by Evelin Hust, Michael Mann.
Publication
New Delhi : Manohar : Distributed in South Asia by Foundation Books, 2005.

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  • Hust, Evelin.
  • Mann, Michael, 1959-
  • France. Ambassade (India). Centre for Human Sciences.
  • Universität Heidelberg. Südasien-Institut. New Delhi Branch.
Description
345 pages : 1 map; 25 cm.
Summary
Contributed articles on urbanization, growth of cities and towns in India.
Series Statement
South Asia studies / South Asia Institute, New Delhi Branch, Heidelberg University ; no. 42
Uniform Title
South Asian studies ; no. 42.
Subject
  • Urbanization > India
  • Cities and towns > India > Growth
  • City and town life > India
Note
  • "Centre de Sciences Humaines, South Asia Institute."
  • "A publication of the French Research Institutes in India & South Asia Institute, New Delhi"--Jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • 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.
ISBN
8173046093
LCCN
2005320466
OCLC
  • ocm60419820
  • SCSB-5283302
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Columbia University Libraries