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Shifting Cities: Urban Restructuring in Mumbai
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This article is published in Economic and Political Weekly.The article was published on 2002-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 59 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Restructuring.read more
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Landscapes of Disaster: Water, Modernity, and Urban Fragmentation in Mumbai
TL;DR: The authors found that the city's dysfunctional water infrastructure has its roots within the colonial era but these incipient weaknesses have been exacerbated in recent years by rapid urban growth, authoritarian forms of political mobilization, and the dominance of middle-class interests within a denuded public realm.
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Governing the Contaminated City: Infrastructure and Sanitation in Colonial and Post-Colonial Bombay
TL;DR: The authors examines specific ways in which sanitation infrastructure matter politically both as a set of materials and as a discursive object in colonial and post-colonial Bombay, and elucidates the distinct and changing spatial imaginaries and logics of sanitation in their broad relation to urbanization and nature.
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The dream of Delhi as a global city
TL;DR: Delhi's experience thus exemplifies the problematic implementation of a Western construct in a metropolis of the South characterized by strong socioeconomic inequalities as well as the ascent of urban entrepreneurialism and its translation into a revanchist city.
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Mumbai's Development Mafias: Globalization, Organized Crime and Land Development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how the past 15 years of political reforms in India have reshaped property markets and the politics of land development and found that local criminal syndicates have seized political opportunities created by these shifts to gain influence over land development.
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Splintering urbanism in Mumbai: Contrasting trends in a multilayered society
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the splintering urbanism argument of the relationship between neo-liberal reforms of infrastructure networks and urban cohesion and question the assumption of a modern infrastructure ideal in the context of developing cities.
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