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Urban navigations : politics, space, and the city in South Asia

Title
Urban navigations : politics, space, and the city in South Asia / editors Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, Colin McFarlane.
Publication
New Delhi : Routledge, 2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro.
  • McFarlane, Colin, 1979-
Description
xii, 347 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Cities and the urban imperative
Uniform Title
Cities and the urban imperative
Subject
  • City and town life > South Asia
  • City and towns > South Asia > Social conditions
  • Urbanization > South Asia
  • City and town life
  • Urbanization
  • Vie urbaine > Asie du Sud
  • Villes > Asie du Sud > Conditions sociales
  • Approvisionnement en eau > Asie du Sud
  • Urbanisation > Asie du Sud
  • Bidonvilles > Asie du Sud
  • South Asia
Note
  • Contributed articles.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : conceptualising the city in South Asia / Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Colin McFarlane -- pt. 1. Contested landscapes. The nuisance of slums : environmental law and the production of slum illegality in India / D. Asher Ghertner ; Poverty as geography : motility, stoppage and circuits of waste in Delhi / Vinay Gidwani and Bharati Chaturvedi ; Shillong : the (un)making of a North-East Indian city? / Daisy Hasan ; The divided city? : squatters' struggle for urban space in Kathmandu / Urmi Sengupta ; Spectacular events, city spaces and citizenship : the commonwealth games in Delhi / Amita Baviskar -- pt. 2. Infrastructures and materialities. The embeddedness of cost recovery : water reforms and associationism at Bangalore's fringes / Malini Ranganathan ; Ignoring power : knowing leakage in Mumbai's water supply / Nikhil Anand ; 'No horn please' : self-governance and sociality in Kathmandu housing colony / Andrew Nelson ; Gated communities as packaged fantasies : a meeting of the local and the global and the standardisation of taste in urban Sri Lanka / Sasanka Perera -- pt. 3. Imaging the urban. Sri Lanka : terror, anxiety and the unstable nation : a physical biography of violence / Anoma Pieris ; City of lights : nostalgia, violence and Karachi's competing imaginaries / Huma Yusuf ; Sacrifice and dystopia : imagining Karachi through Edhi / Yasmin Jaffri and Oskar Verkaaik.
ISBN
  • 9780415617604
  • 041561760X
LCCN
2011321017
OCLC
  • ocn670478744
  • 670478744
  • SCSB-9412163
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library