India's Contemporary Urban Conundrum

Introduction: Revisiting Urban India by Sujata Patel p.1, I: Debate on Defining the Urban: Rurbanisation: An Alternate Development Paradigm by Amitabh Kundu p.17, Subaltern Urbanisation Revisited by Parth Mukhopadyay, Marie – Helene Zerah, Eric Denis p.28, II: Conditions Generating Work, Living and (In) Security: Only ‘Good People’, Please: Residential Segregation in Urbanising India by Trina Vithayathil, Gayatri Singh, Kanhu C. Pradhan p.45, Inclusive Urbanisation: Informal Employment and Gender by Jeemol Unni p.55, Resettlement, Mobility and Women’s Safety in Cities by Renu Desai, Vaishali Parmar, Dashini Mahadevia p.65, Cities for Healthy People by Dinesh Mohan p.77, III: Cities of Contemporary India: The Planned and the Unplanned: Company Towns in India Ashima Sood, Shardini Rath p.91, The Logistical City by Ranabir Samaddar p.104, Cities and Smartness by Prasad Shetty, Rupali Gupte p.116, Public Spaces and Places: Gendered Intersectionalities in Indian Cities by Saraswati Raju, Tanusree Paul p.128, Reading the City through Art by Christiane Brosius p.139, IV: Urban Policy, Planning and Governance: India’s ‘Urban’ and the Policy Disconnect by Ajay K. Mehra p.161, Changing Trajectories of Urban Local Governance by Amita Bhide p.172, Urban Development, Housing and ‘Slums’by Swastik Harish p.184, Engine Urbanism by Himanshu Burte p.199, Post - national Urbanism: ‘Ordinary’ People, Capital and the State by Sanjay Srivastava p.210, V: Ecology, Environment and Well – Being: The Art of Evolution by Harsh Raman Singh Paul p.225, Nurturing Urban Commons for Sustainable Urbanisation by Seema Mundoli, Hita Unnikrishnan, Harini Nagendra p.250, The Unsustainable Urban Waste Economy: What is to be Done? by Barbara Harriss – White p.263, The Canal and the City: An Urban - Ecological Lens on Chennai’s Growth by Karen Coelho p.279, Cities: Changing the Metaphor to Quality of Life by Vikram Soni p.293