Ecologies of urbanism in India : metropolitan civility and sustainability / edited by Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan.

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Ecologies of urbanism in India : metropolitan civility and sustainability / edited by Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan.

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xviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / by Helen F. Siu -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction : ecologies of urbanism in India / Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan -- 2. Is there an "Indian" urbanism? / Janaki Nair -- 3. One air, two interventions : Delhi in the age of environment / Awadhendra sharan -- 4. The troubled passage from "village communities" to planned new town developments in mid-twentieth-century South Asia / William J. Glover -- 5. Flexible planning : the making of India's "millennium city" / Gurgaon Shubhra Gururani -- 6. From the frying pan to the floodplain : negotiating land, Water, and fire in Chennai's development / Karen Coelho and Nithya V. Raman -- 7. Value struggles : waste work and urban ecology in Delhi / Vinay Gidwani -- 8. Housing in the urban age : inequality and aspiration in Mumbai / Nikhil Anand and Anne Rademacher -- 9. Resettlement ecologies : environmental subjectivity and graduated citizenship in Mumbai / Sapana Doshi -- 10. Nuisance talk : middle-class discourses of a slum-free Delhi / D. Asher Ghertner -- Index.

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ISBN:

9888139770 (pbk.)
9789888139774 (pbk.)
9888139762 (hbk.)
9789888139767 (hbk.)

Subject:

Sustainable development India Case studies.
Sustainability India.
Urban ecology (Sociology) India.
Développement durable Inde Études de cas.
Durabilité de l'environnement Inde.
Écologie urbaine Inde.
71.14 urban society.
74.72 urban planning.
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Lebensqualität
Umweltbelastung
Verstädterung
India.
South Asia.
Bombay
Delhi

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Aufsatzsammlung.
Case studies
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Rademacher, Anne.
Sivaramakrishnan, K., 1957-

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Location: Library main 283575
Call No.: BIB 221901
Status: Available

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