Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local

Contesting the Indian City features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modern India.

• Features studies that serve to deepen our theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencing
• Examines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shaping urban spatial change in India
• The first volume to bring themes of urban political reform, municipal finance, land markets, and real estate industry together in an international publication

Keywords: politics, equity, space, urban development, modern India, Indian cities, urban redevelopment policy and planning, urban politics, real estate markets, urban spatial change, urban political reform, municipal finance, land markets, contemporary India, India, urban redevelopment, urban planning, real estate industry, Indian real estate, economic growth, Urban Geography, Urban Sociology, Urban Geography, Urban Sociology