Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi

Introduction.- Propertied Ambiguity': Negotiating the State in a Delhi Resettlement Colony Kavita Ramakrishnan.- Unpacking the ''Unauthorized Colony': Policy, Planning and Everyday Lives Subhadra Banda and Shahana Sheikh.- Local Bodies/Global Cities: Reclaiming Citizenship in Neoliberal Delhi Ursula Rao.- Settling the nomads: A Case of Kathputli Colony Shruti Dubey.- Governing Street Hawkers: Seeing Like a Fragmented Metropolis Government Seth Schindler.- Criminalising Africans in an Urban Village: Race-tinged Moralities and the Depoliticization of Gentrification Persis Taraporevala.- The Middle-class Home as a Site of Work and Struggle Sonal Sharma.- Monuments in the village: Negotiating Memory and Function in Begumpur Narayani Gupta.- Making and Unmaking of Intimacy in the 'world class' city: The Case of the Delhi Mohalla Neha Dhole.- The Street: A Revisionist Note from Delhi's Black Town Ajay Gandhi.- Urban village as Entrepreneurial Space: The Hospitality Niche in Mahipalpur Surajit Chakravarty.- The Shape/ing of Industrial Landscapes in a Large Metropolis: Life and Work in the Industrial Areas of Delhi Sumangala Damodaran.- 'Special Regime' and Justice of Exception: The Metro and Property in East Delhi Berenice Bon.- Contested Formality and Incipient Informality in Delhi's New Suburban Space: A Case Study in Savda Ghevra Resettlement Colony Vilde Ulset and Rolee Aranya.- Bus/bas: The Delhi Gang Rape, City Buses, and the Ghost of Rosa Parks Tara Atluri.- Antinomies of the Post-Socialist 'Clean' Delhi Waquar Ahmed.- Filling in for the State: Artist-mediated Consensus-building in Khirkee Aastha Chauhan.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8132221532
• ISBN13: 9788132221531
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"