Bücher der Reihe Cities and the Urban Imperative

An ethnographic investigation into the lives of young people growing up and living in Bangalore. Moving beyond the hype of the Indian 'knowledge society', it examines how different forms of technology and outsourced labour become integral to changing the experience of modernity and globalisation.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current housing practices across Asian cities based on facts and trends in the market. For many countries in Asia, the future of housing is now. This future is closely linked to successful theoretical advancement and policy practice in housing studies.

This book critically examines the emerging deployments of citizen participation in neoliberal urban governance in India. Through case studies across sectors and cities, it discusses how these new formats of participation have embedded market-oriented reforms, promoted financialisation of cities, refashioned urban citizenship and deepened the fra

This book examines the diverse lived experiences of urban South Asia through a focus on contestations over urban space, resources and habitation, bringing together accounts from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. It vividly demonstrates how neoliberalism functions as one of the many drivers of urban change.

This book critically examines the emerging deployments of citizen participation in neoliberal urban governance in India. Through case studies across sectors and cities, it discusses how these new formats of participation have embedded market-oriented reforms, promoted financialisation of cities, refashioned urban citizenship and deepened the fragmentation of urban polities.

This book is a comparative, sector-based study of the changing character of governance in Indian metropolises in the 2000s. Highlighting the horizontal and vertical ties of the participatory groups, both state and non-state, it looks at key civic issues.

This book traces the various ways through which majoritarianism and neoliberal capitalist accumulation has reorganised Bombay or Mumbai in India, by exploring work and labour; health and education; spatial planning and infrastructural development; politics and identity; financialisation; land speculation; and deregulation and informality.

This book traces the various ways through which majoritarianism and neoliberal capitalist accumulation has reorganised Bombay or Mumbai in India, by exploring work and labour; health and education; spatial planning and infrastructural development; politics and identity; financialisation; land speculation; and deregulation and informality.