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Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
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Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization:
TL;DR: The fast-paced growth of the Indian economy and particularly its cities has produced an urban crisis, one that is marked by the lack of adequate infrastructure and growth management as well as by s... as discussed by the authors.
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Insurgent planning: Situating radical planning in the global south
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors revisited the notion of radical planning from the standpoint of the global South and characterized the guiding principles for insurgent planning practices as counter-hegemonic, transgressive and imaginative.
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New urban utopias of postcolonial India: ‘Entrepreneurial urbanization’ in Dholera smart city, Gujarat
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how global models of smart cities are provincialized in the regional state of Gujarat through local histories, politics and laws, and argue that Dholera smart city is part of a longer genealogy of utopian urban planning that emerged as a response to the challenges of development and modernity in post-independent India.
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Theoretical Notes On `Gray Cities': the Coming of Urban Apartheid?:
TL;DR: In this article, the political geography of globally expanding urban informalities is analyzed and conceptualized as ''gray spaces'' positioned between the whiteeness of legality/approval/safety, and the greyness of informal spaces.
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Rethinking Informality: Politics, Crisis, and the City
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptualisation that conceives informality and formality as forms of practice is proposed, and three conceptual frames for charting the changing relations of informal and formal practices: speculation, composition, and bricolage.
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Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization:
TL;DR: The fast-paced growth of the Indian economy and particularly its cities has produced an urban crisis, one that is marked by the lack of adequate infrastructure and growth management as well as by s... as discussed by the authors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Insurgent planning: Situating radical planning in the global south
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors revisited the notion of radical planning from the standpoint of the global South and characterized the guiding principles for insurgent planning practices as counter-hegemonic, transgressive and imaginative.
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New urban utopias of postcolonial India: ‘Entrepreneurial urbanization’ in Dholera smart city, Gujarat
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how global models of smart cities are provincialized in the regional state of Gujarat through local histories, politics and laws, and argue that Dholera smart city is part of a longer genealogy of utopian urban planning that emerged as a response to the challenges of development and modernity in post-independent India.
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Theoretical Notes On `Gray Cities': the Coming of Urban Apartheid?:
TL;DR: In this article, the political geography of globally expanding urban informalities is analyzed and conceptualized as ''gray spaces'' positioned between the whiteeness of legality/approval/safety, and the greyness of informal spaces.
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Rethinking Informality: Politics, Crisis, and the City
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptualisation that conceives informality and formality as forms of practice is proposed, and three conceptual frames for charting the changing relations of informal and formal practices: speculation, composition, and bricolage.