Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities

✍ Scribed by Jenia Mukherjee (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Series: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment. The volume is contextualized against latest theories, debates and discussions on 'sustainable urbanization', the post‐2015 development agenda of the United Nations and India's official launching of the 'smart city' agenda. Reflecting on three major components of urban sustainability: investments and infrastructures, waste management, and urban ecologies and environmentalisms, it moves beyond the bi‐centric approach of only looking into the differences between the ‘developed’ and the ‘developing’ world and reflects on cities across India using polycentric methods and approaches.
The Indian urban scenario is extremely complex and diverse, and solutions laid out in official and non‐official documents tend to miss these complexities. This volume includes innovative research across different parts of India, identifying city‐specific sources of unsustainability and challenges along with strategies and potentials that would make the process of urban transition both sustainable and equitable. Complex explorations of non‐linear, bottom‐up, multisectoral process‐based local urban contexts across north, south, east and west Indian cities in this volume critique a general acceptance of the universalized concept of ‘sustainable urbanization’ and suggest ways that might be important for transcending inclusive theories to form practical policy-based recommendations and actions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv
Indian Urban Trajectories: Addressing ‘Sustainability’ across Micro-political Settings (Jenia Mukherjee)....Pages 1-22
Towards Sustainable Cities in India (Annapurna Shaw)....Pages 23-37
Front Matter ....Pages 39-39
Structural Limits to Equitable Urbanization (Achin Chakraborty)....Pages 41-52
Alternative Provision of Tenure Security and Rights to the Urban Poor: A Case Study from Ahmedabad (Atanu Chatterjee)....Pages 53-77
State, Governance and Urban Poor: Insights from Visakhapatnam City (Debapriya Ganguly)....Pages 79-94
Performing Governance in Urban Patna ( Sheema Fatima)....Pages 95-108
Sustainability of Urban Fringe Development and Management in NCT-Delhi: A Case Study (Ramakrishna Nallathiga, Suhani Taneja, Anusha Gupta, Bitul Gangal)....Pages 109-133
Front Matter ....Pages 135-135
Evaluating Municipal Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities: A Comparative Assessment of Three Metros in South India (Shaik Sajith, Avinash Y. Kumar)....Pages 137-160
Electronic Waste in Urban India: A Major Sustainability Challenge (Anwesha Borthakur)....Pages 161-179
How Expensive is the Decay of East Kolkata Wetlands? An Estimation of Opportunity Cost for Kolkata (Debanjana Dey, Sarmila Banerjee)....Pages 181-205
Urban Ecologies in Transition: Contestations around Waste in Mumbai (Sneha Sharma, D. Parthasarathy)....Pages 207-223
Front Matter ....Pages 225-225
Sustainability or (Sustain)ability? Environmentalism and Shades of Power in a Metropolis (Amit Jain)....Pages 227-237
Gentrification and Rising Urban Aspirations in the Inner City: Redefining Urbanism in Mumbai (Dwiparna Chatterjee, D. Parthasarathy)....Pages 239-255
Communities in a ‘Protected’ Urban Space and Conservation Politics in Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park (Amrita Sen, Sarmistha Pattanaik)....Pages 257-278
Urban at the Edges: Mumbai’s Coastline Urbanisms (Hemantkumar A. Chouhan, D. Parthasarathy, Sarmistha Pattanaik)....Pages 279-293
Contested Urban Waterscape of Udaipur (Neha Singh, D. Parthasarathy, N. C. Narayanan)....Pages 295-317

✦ Subjects

Urban Studies/Sociology