Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India : The Politics of Spatial Restructuring and Local Contestation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Smitha, Kanekanti Chandrashekar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Urban geography.; Urban economics.; Sociology, Urban.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9789811022364
• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-2236-4
• Physical Description: XIX, 220 p. 28 illus. in color. online resource.

Through the analysis of Indian metropolises, this volume critiques the reality of "entrepreneurial governance" that has emerged as a major urban development practice in cities of the global south. In neoliberal India, the use of management rhetoric in urban development has rapidly led to t...