Author: Guha Swapna Banerjee
Place: New Delhi
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 2010
Pages: 235
ISBN: 978-81-321-0313-4
Subject: Urbanisation
Sub-Subject: Urban Studies
Keyword: Urban studies, Urban Transformation, Transformation of Cities, Urban Fragmentation, Urban Theory
Classification: 307.76
Shelf: C1R4
Accession No: B987
Contents: Acknowledgements, Introduction: Transformative Cities in the New Global Order, The Right to the City: From Capital Surplus to Accumulationby7 Dispossession, The Global City: Strategic Site, New Frontier, Global Capital, Neoliberal Politics and Terrains of Resistance in Vienna, Globalisation and Transformation of Dhaka City, Manufacturing Neoliberalism: Lifestyling Indian Urbanity, Hi-tech Hyderabad and the Urban Poor: Reformed Out of the System, Reconfiguring Power Relationship: Policies towards Urban Services in Mumbai, Urban Transport Projects in a Globalised Scenario, Urban Public Space and the Urban Poor, Revisiting Accumulation by Dispossession: Neliberalising Mumbai
Abstract: This book is a compilation of essays by renowned theorists and scholars in the field of urban studies, focusing on the transformative processes of cities and their socio-economic implications. The essays delve into the signs of spatial crises within metropolises, uncovering the contradictory dynamics of integration and segmentation that define the critical nature of global urban spaces. The volume examines and exposes a fragmented framework within which globalization fosters division and polarization, challenging the myth of homogenization. These essays illustrate how cities and regions worldwide are integrated into this system, showcasing increasingly diverse and complex characteristics, particularly due to their growingly contradictory relationships with local resources and cultural foundations.