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| Title | Indian Urban Trajectories: Addressing ‘Sustainability’ Across Micro-Political Settings |
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| ID_Doc | 31188 |
| Authors | Mukherjee J. |
| Year | 2018 |
| Published | Exploring Urban Change in South Asia |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4932-3_1 |
| Abstract | The introductory chapter offers broad overview of the challenges and potentials of contemporary patterns and processes of urbanization in India with ‘sustainability’ as the nucleus, manifested in the recent Smart City Mission. It contextualizes the emergence and implementation of the project across long-term spatio-temporal trajectories that had not only initiated the concept of ‘sustainable’ but also interpolated it in discourses on development and urbanization. Accommodating the three major components of urban sustainability: governance of infrastructures and investments, management of wastes and wetlands and explorations of urban ecology and environmentalisms, it summarizes conceptual chapters and case studies that confer nuanced readings and explorations of micro-political processes and weaves these disparate ideas into connected and comprehensive webs of thought. Critically interrogating exclusionary aspects of ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’ urbanization in contemporary India, the chapter captures the dialectical tensions between cities’ insane rush towards achieving the status of ‘world class’ or ‘global’ and numerous local processes and ‘stubborn realities’, thus bringing to the forefront ‘epistemology of the particulars’, unpacking the embeddedness of the global and the local processes. © 2018, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. |
| Author Keywords | Ecology; Environmentalism; India; Infrastructures; Sustainability; Waste |
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