Books in the Cities and the Urban Imperative series

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.

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 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 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 volume brings together 12 chapters divided across four thematic sections that sum up the concept and conditionality of housing in Asian cities. It studies housing through conceptual perspectives and empirical studies to explore established notions, cultures and practices relevant to the 21st-century post-reform context in Asia. Housing and property have long been economic drivers leading many individual households towards better lives and associated social and community benefits, while also collectively improving the economic base of a city or country. This book examines the nature of the interplay of both state and market in the housing outcomes of these cities.

An ethnographic study that examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the new millennium. It reveals an original theory on cosmopolitan Indianness and urbanisation in the age of globalisation.

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.