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Building Sustainable Livelihoods Through Everyday ‘Green Urbanism’ Practices—A Case Study of GTB Nagar Neighborhood Delhi, India
As urban processes become increasingly complex over time, cities expanded at the cost of green spaces. “The blind forces of urbanization flowing along the lines of least resistance”, as argued by Mumford (1956) “show no aptitude for creating an urban and industrial pattern that will be stable and self-sustaining”. Through the age of “The Anthropocene”, cities evolved from their traditional socio-political-economic functions to geological actors with the potential capacity to alter the earth’s climate- locally and globally. This has made urban a more difficult place to live initiating an urge to look for more innovative ways to improve the quality of city life by bringing nature back into everyday living spaces. People began greening the congested urban spaces to make a healthy living in the cities possible. This “green turn” in urbanization has taken various forms across the world. Indian cities are influenced by green turns in urbanization. In this context, the paper tries to map and comprehend home gardening practices as everyday negotiation with the urban crisis in Delhi. The study grounded on both primary and secondary data, and involving a mixed methodology tries to focus on the untold but practiced epistemologies of different forms of green urbanism in Delhi.
Building Sustainable Livelihoods Through Everyday ‘Green Urbanism’ Practices—A Case Study of GTB Nagar Neighborhood Delhi, India
As urban processes become increasingly complex over time, cities expanded at the cost of green spaces. “The blind forces of urbanization flowing along the lines of least resistance”, as argued by Mumford (1956) “show no aptitude for creating an urban and industrial pattern that will be stable and self-sustaining”. Through the age of “The Anthropocene”, cities evolved from their traditional socio-political-economic functions to geological actors with the potential capacity to alter the earth’s climate- locally and globally. This has made urban a more difficult place to live initiating an urge to look for more innovative ways to improve the quality of city life by bringing nature back into everyday living spaces. People began greening the congested urban spaces to make a healthy living in the cities possible. This “green turn” in urbanization has taken various forms across the world. Indian cities are influenced by green turns in urbanization. In this context, the paper tries to map and comprehend home gardening practices as everyday negotiation with the urban crisis in Delhi. The study grounded on both primary and secondary data, and involving a mixed methodology tries to focus on the untold but practiced epistemologies of different forms of green urbanism in Delhi.
Building Sustainable Livelihoods Through Everyday ‘Green Urbanism’ Practices—A Case Study of GTB Nagar Neighborhood Delhi, India
Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
Dubey, Anupama (editor) / Anand, Subhash (editor) / Bagade, Basavaraj (editor) / Anisha (author) / Komal (author) / Agrawal, Sneha (author) / Tomar, Vaishali (author)
Promoting Sustainability Through Water Management and Climate Change Adaptation ; Chapter: 16 ; 203-211
2023-10-31
9 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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