The need to focus on smart city initiatives across the globe seems to vary, as modern cities
today are identified as complex ecosystems grappling with the management of several …

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary
approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and …

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization
as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its …

With the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, urban-led economic growth in
India was firmly framed around a vision of 'smart cities', an ambiguous concept, which …

This paper questions the effects of the financialisation of Indian real estate markets with a
focus on the Bangalore city-region. Research on Southern cities has concluded that globally …

An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and
how this impacts their residents Urbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two …

While neoliberalisation has long drawn scholarly attention, there have been few attempts to
quantify the course of restructuring under neoliberal urbanisation. This paper aims to …

As China and India urbanize, land acquisition by state and private actors has become highly
contentious in both countries. This article compares two large-scale anti-land acquisition …

As states concentrate their developmental capacities in space, the sub-national scale has
emerged as a focal point of policy-making in India. The rescaled spatiality of the state is …

This article attempts to understand state practices of restructuring of urban space and modes
of governance, the role and strategies of the different actors involved and their participatory …