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Sustainable Urban Management of the Mainstream and the Margin: Reflecting on Delhi and Its Peri-Urban Transformation
The cityCities of Delhi and its peripheries have undergone profound changes in the last two centuries owing to both a rise in the population and an increase in economic growthGrowth, causing tremendous changes in the overall land use pattern. The recent trends in the urban developmentUrban Developmentpost-economic liberalisationEconomic liberalization indicate a sharp turn in transforming Delhi into a global city that highly serves the purpose of the ‘capital’ and therefore the very goal of neoliberalisation. The opening up of the Indian economy to the international markets has essentially changed the politico-administrative arrangements which are strongly getting reflected in the overall context of the developmentDevelopment of the large citiesCities. Examples can be drawn from the ambitions expressed by the government to make Delhi a ‘world-class city’ and the hosting of landmark events as prominent steps towards such transformation. This framework of developmentDevelopment often counters the concerns of building an inclusive cityCities and intensifies the polarisation process. The chapter reflects upon the transformation of the peri-urbanPeri-urban space of NCR Delhi and the redefinition of the urbanUrban landscape following the ideology of world-class development. First, it presents a broader picture of the overall developmentDevelopment of the peri-urbanPeri-urban Delhi by discussing the pattern of change reflected in its physicality as well as the sociality, and second, it initiates a discussion to examine the role of media advertising, especially of the real-estate housingHousing market in reinvigorating the meaning of the urban.
Sustainable Urban Management of the Mainstream and the Margin: Reflecting on Delhi and Its Peri-Urban Transformation
The cityCities of Delhi and its peripheries have undergone profound changes in the last two centuries owing to both a rise in the population and an increase in economic growthGrowth, causing tremendous changes in the overall land use pattern. The recent trends in the urban developmentUrban Developmentpost-economic liberalisationEconomic liberalization indicate a sharp turn in transforming Delhi into a global city that highly serves the purpose of the ‘capital’ and therefore the very goal of neoliberalisation. The opening up of the Indian economy to the international markets has essentially changed the politico-administrative arrangements which are strongly getting reflected in the overall context of the developmentDevelopment of the large citiesCities. Examples can be drawn from the ambitions expressed by the government to make Delhi a ‘world-class city’ and the hosting of landmark events as prominent steps towards such transformation. This framework of developmentDevelopment often counters the concerns of building an inclusive cityCities and intensifies the polarisation process. The chapter reflects upon the transformation of the peri-urbanPeri-urban space of NCR Delhi and the redefinition of the urbanUrban landscape following the ideology of world-class development. First, it presents a broader picture of the overall developmentDevelopment of the peri-urbanPeri-urban Delhi by discussing the pattern of change reflected in its physicality as well as the sociality, and second, it initiates a discussion to examine the role of media advertising, especially of the real-estate housingHousing market in reinvigorating the meaning of the urban.
Sustainable Urban Management of the Mainstream and the Margin: Reflecting on Delhi and Its Peri-Urban Transformation
Springer Geography
Chatterjee, Uday (editor) / Bandyopadhyay, Nairwita (editor) / Setiawati, Martiwi Diah (editor) / Sarkar, Soma (editor) / Mukhopadhyay, Sanchari (author) / Sen, Sucharita (author)
2023-05-24
21 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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