The reporter, the flâneur, and the critic: The urbanist as outsider in the South Asian mega-city
New Delhi, Mumbai, Bombay, urbanism, urbanisme, urbanist, urbaniste, mégapole, sociologie urbaine, Asie, Asia, Inde, India, culture urbaine, flâneur, Hogan Trevor
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‘No urbanism without urbanists’ might be a slogan that captures the European and North American urban experience over the past two centuries. Indeed, it is arguable that urbanism is not only an empirical description of material cultures of cities but is also a creative act of the inscriptions on the cities by writers themselves – from Ruskin, Baudelaire, and Geddes to Benjamin, Mumford and Hall, and from the Chicago School to Jacobs, Sennett and Davis. But where, when and who are the Asian urbanists? And is this question too late in an era of globalised megacities? Can we still write the city? Are they not too big, fast, splintered and complex to be encapsulated textually in their totality? Are we witnessing instead in the Asian-Pacific Century, urbanisms without urbanists?<br />
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This paper looks at four contemporary urbanists and their writings on two key megacities of India – New Delhi and Mumbai, two megacities whose forms and lives are crucial to the next phase of India’s emergence as a global power. They are difficult cities in every sense – complex, explosive, dangerous, fluid and creative - and therefore ideal sites for understanding 21st century forms of urbanisms. Here I choose writers who are outsiders to the cities they write about: they are migrants and expatriates, but who also work from the margins of the social sciences of the academy. I attend to their authorship and their social and institutional settings; this in turn invites reflection on readerships, but more importantly about the types of authorship available to, and developed by, urbanists over the past two hundred years. The paper shifts to the texts themselves and reflects about forms of writing (genre, style, and rhetoric) as much as to what they have come to say about their cities. The paper concludes with some reflections on their arguments for a critical understanding of the contemporary South Asia mega-city by suggesting that indeed there is no urbanism without urbanists and this is so in Asian cities of the 21st century no less.</div>
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<b>Trevor Hogan</b> commenced a 3-month appointment as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Asian Urbanisms Cluster with effect from 27 December 2010. He teaches in Social Sciences, La Trobe University. He is the Director, Philippines-Australia Studies Centre, and Deputy-Director, Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology.</div>
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Trevor Hogan
8 March 2011
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publication_details.asp?pubtypeid=AU&pubid=1963
China and India: Governance, urban development, and sustainability in the cities of the Global South
China, India, Chine, Inde, pays en développement, gouvernance, développement urbain, développement durable, mutation urbaine, service public, infrastructures, aménagement urbain, Kundu Ratoola, Lal Kamna, Sun Meng, Wang Lan, Weisberg Barry, Perry David C.
<div><b>Organisers' description :</b></div> </div> The scholarship with regard to the process of urbanization in the context of globalization has been dominated by the "global cities" paradigm in which Saskia Sassen outlines the increasing centrality of cities as they become "command centers" in the expansion of global capitalism, destabilizing the older networks of governance that are embodied in the nation-state. As a result, much of the theorization on urbanization in the recent past has been focused on cities in the developed regions of the world such as New York, London and Tokyo that serve as the material and symbolic sites for global economic production. The cities of the developing countries therefore remain marginal to this theorization of the urban, either defined by the lack of full-scale globalization, or through processes that mimic the developments in the core, or as sites of increasing chaos, poverty and inequality.<br /> <br /> This panel discussion brings together a diverse group of PhD students at UIC, from the fields of urban planning and design, criminal justice and public administration, conducting research in the cities of the global south. While their approaches might vary, they are all engaged in contributing to the production of knowledge on newly emerging global urban agglomerations and the concurrent shifts in the political economy, particularly urban governance. This reflects a demographic transformation of historical proportions wherein the majority of the world's urban dwellers will be in cities of the developing countries. Two-thirds of the world's urban population growth will be occurring in the cities of the developing regions of the world, bringing about rapid uneven distribution of incomes, the proliferation of slum cities, rising demand for urban infrastructure and investment -– physical and social. The discussants will debate some of the emerging contradictions and tensions faced by the cities of the global south and locate areas of further research. The thrust will be on the possibilities of constructing alternative theories of understanding this massive urban change.<br /> <br /> Ratoola Kundu will be presenting on the transformations that take place at the urban fringes and the practices of informality that shape it and are in turn regulated by the policies of the local government as well as global flows of economic investment, using the case of the fringes of Kolkata in India as an illustration.<br /> <br /> Kamna Lal will be investigating semi-formal institutional arrangement for delivery of urban environmental services in an Indian city and drawing out the changes in the relationship between political economy and the ecology of the city in a liberalizing environment.<br /> <br /> Meng Sun’s presentation is on the possible material and social impacts of the Olympic 2008 summer games on the city of Beijing and the significance of "event" or spectacle driven development of urban centers.<br /> <br /> Lan Wang will be dealing with the emergence of new global urban planning and design practices that are being rapidly transplanted into the New Towns of China's urban regions and the kinds of political, economic, socio-cultural changes that drive and are in turn shaped by these design practices of producing "global cities".<br /> <br /> Barry Weisberg will be presenting on the need to reformulate an understanding of what constitutes safety and security with respect to urban populations and infrastructure of the mega cities in developing countries, focusing on Shanghai.</div> </div> <b>Ratoola Kundu, Kamna Lal, Meng Sun, Lan Wang </b>and <b>Barry Weisberg</b> are PhD students at the University of Illinois at Chicago.</div> <b>David C. Perry </b>is the Director of the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago.</div> </div>
6 November 2007
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/whatwedo/eventsarchive/events0708/2007global_south.shtml
India's urban transformation : From challenge to opportunity
India, Inde, mutation urbaine, croissance urbaine, urbanisation, économie, Revi Aromar
<div><b>Aromar Revi </b>is an international consultant, practitioner and researcher with nearly twenty five years of inter-disciplinary experience in public policy, governance, institutional development, as well as the political economy of reform, development, technology and sustainability. He is the Director of the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) - India's first independent national University aiming to address challenges of urbanization in the 21st Century.</div>
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Aromar Revi
10 May 2010
http://africancentreforcities.net/media/17/
Les enjeux du recyclage à Dharavi
Bouvier Edith, Bombay, Inde, bidonville, déchets, recyclage, écologie, environnement
<div>Un reportage d'Edith Bouvier diffusé dans l'émission <i>C'est pas du vent</i> d'Anne-Cécile Bras.</div>
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Bombay, une mégapole, cœur financier de l’Inde compte près de 16 millions d’habitants. Une ville de la démesure, surpeuplée, toujours en activité.</div>
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La première image de la ville est l'énorme bidonville que l’on aperçoit du hublot de l'avion. Dharavi. Il s'étend sur des kilomètres aux abords de l'aéroport. Le plus vaste du continent asiatique.</div>
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Paradoxe, c’est dans cet amas de déchets que se trouve pourtant la solution écologique de l’Inde. Plus précisément dans le quartier des recycleurs.</div>
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Ce reportage peut être écouté en ligne ou téléchargé au format mp3 sur le site de RFI.</a></div>
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Edith Bouvier
octobre 2010
26'31"
http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20101008-2-enjeux-recyclage-dharavi
State, space and citizenship : Indian cities in the global era
, citoyenneté, droit à la ville, urbanisation, croissance urbaine, politique de la ville, espace urbain, gouvernance, société urbaine, genre, India, Inde, Benjamin Solomon, Vohra Paromita, Sundaram Ravi
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“State, Space and Citizenship” is the title of a year of thematic programming on key issues confronting Indian cities, beginning in January 2009. This is sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan as a part of the Trehan India Initiative.<br />
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The United Nations estimates that India’s urban population will nearly double to reach 586 million by 2030. This urbanization is taking place as the country grapples with the dramatic challenges and promises presented by economic liberalization and exposure to global flows of people, ideas, finance, investment, and media.<br />
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The first Trehan India Initiative Theme Year at the University of Michigan will address how urbanization is transforming contemporary India socially, economically, politically, culturally, and environmentally. It will focus on three closely related areas of investigation:<br />
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1. Transformations in urban politics and the role of the state in urban development<br />
2. Changes in the production of urban space<br />
3. Issues of citizenship and politics in the urban realm.</div>
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<b>Solomon Benjamin</b> is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He was previously a consultant on urban development issues and an independent scholar based in Bangalore.</div>
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<b>Ravi Sundaram</b> is a fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), and a founding member of SARAI, a coalition of researchers that has had a major impact on contemporary scholarship on urban issues in India.</div>
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<b>Paromita Vohra</b> is a filmmaker and writer whose work plays with fiction and non-fiction to focus on ideas of gender, urban life and popular culture.</div>
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Solomon Benjamin,
Paromita Vohra,
Ravi Sundaram
23 January 2009
http://umtrehaninitiative.net/Lecture_Series.html
Old city, new city : Locating the past in urban India
India, Inde, histoire urbaine, urbanisation, aménagement urbain, patrimoine, Sundaram Ravi, utopie
<div><b>Organisers' description : </b></div> </div> As part of the first Trehan India Initiative Theme Year at the University of Michigan, a three-panel interdisciplinary graduate student conference will be held September 25, 2009. This Theme Year, entitled “State, Space and Citizenship: Indian Cities in the Global Era,” takes urbanization to be one of the defining elements of change in contemporary India. <br /> <br /> Offering a ‘historical turn’ to the issues raised by the Theme Year, this interdisciplinary graduate student conference centers on the question of how the past is regularly—or irregularly—bounded, contested and re-framed in the dynamic discourses of urban planning, development and citizenship in India. What are the various avatars assumed by ‘the past’ in the context of contemporary urbanization (e.g. tradition, heritage, the authentic indigenous, nostalgia, official histories, subaltern interpretations)? What is the role of the past in urban planning and development agendas, claims to citizenship and space, and the changing discourses of the state? How is the past encountered, designed, or interpreted as material, discursive, and/or symbolic?</div> </div> <b>Ravi Sundaram </b>is a Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and a Visiting Faculty member at the Department of Urban Design, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi.</div> </div> </div>
25 September 2009
http://umtrehaninitiative.net/Lecture_Series.html
Economic and social change and violence in Ahmadabad 1950-2000
, aménagement de l'espace, développement urbain, conflit urbain, violence urbaine, fragmentation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, tissu urbain, India, Inde, Ahmadabad, Ahmedabad
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What dynamics contribute to emergence of social tensions and conflicts in an urban environment? Mass mobilisations and episodes of collective violence have been a constant element in the development of large Indian cities over the twentieth century, and the emergence of a deep fracture between the Hindu and the Muslim community has informed social, political and cultural transformations in post-colonial urban environments. Taking Ahmedabad city (north-western India) as a case study, this paper analyses the explosion of collective violence as part of long-term dynamics of urban transformation. Group tensions can be seen as the expression of social, economic and spatial inequalities that consolidated unbalanced patterns of urban territorial and demographic growth. At the same time, the management of urban growth at a political level contributed to the construction of an urban geography where social differences are inscribed in the organisation of the space. In this context, episodes of collective violence have two dimensions: on one side, they can be read as moments when the many instances of inequality find expression in open confrontations at a street level; on the other, violence leaves deep marks in the city’s social and physical landscape and, in this sense, it is an integral element in the process of urban construction and organisation over time.</div>
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<b>Tommaso Bobbio </b>is a postgraduate research student in the Department of History at Royal Holloway University of London.</div>
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Tommaso Bobbio
1 December 2009
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/12/tommaso-bobbio-economic-and-social-change-and-violence-in-ahmadabad-1950-2000/
Urban age : Mumbai
, planification, logement, pauvreté, logement social, pays en développement, changement climatique, ville durable, aménagement urbain, gouvernance, urbanisation, équité sociale, Mumbai, India, Inde
<div>Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'Johannesburg : Challenges of inclusion?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 and video recordings of the entire conference are available on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.urban-age.net">Urban Age website</a>. Many presentations also have accompanying slideshow presentations available for download in PDF format.<br />
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In India, Urban Age examined how the largest democracy on earth negotiates considerable urbanisation and economic development. India’s urban society is experiencing the effects of increasing affluence coupled with persistent social inequalities and a scarcity of resources ranging from personal living space to transport and drinking water. Climate change and other escalating pressures further compound urban developments in India, making its urban agenda a global issue. Evaluating policy and project specific effects, the Urban Age India Conference helped draw the links between events and developments in India’s urbanised areas with trends worldwide, widening the lens from the local to the global.</div>
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Welcome</div>
The global urban context : The Urban Age and India; Cities in a Global Context; The Future of India’s Cities; Discussion</div>
Envisioning the future for global cities : Reenergising English Cities and the London 2012 Olympics; Developing Urban Visions; Transforming Mumbai into a World-Class City; Mumbai: Which Way Forward; Discussion</div>
Urban inequality</div>
Housing the urban poor : Reforming the Housing Debate; Discussion and open debate</div>
Dharavi - A global case study</div>
International experiences : Housing for the Poor in Developing Country Cities: The Bogotá Case; The Mexico City: Ciudad Neza; Tokyo to Mumbai & Back;</div>
Climate change and cities : Climate Change, Risk and Urbanisation; Green Delhi; Discussion</div>
How cities are planned : Governance and City Design; Shaping the City</div>
Case studies : Learning from Planning in Johannesburg; The São Paulo Case; Shaping Singapore; Discussion</div>
Governing global cities : Governing Global Cities: Who Decides?</div>
City leaders forum</div>
Running cities debate</div>
Closing remarks : Discussion and open debate</div>
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Multiple authors
2007
http://www.urban-age.net/03_conferences/conf_mumbai.html
Dacca en cyclo-pousse ...
Dacca, Inde, métropole, cyclo-pousse, Anquetil Giv, mermet Daniel
<div><strong> Un reportage </strong><strong> diffusé dans <a href="http://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/em/labassijysuis/" target="_blank">Là bas si j'y suis</a> de Daniel Mermet<br />
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Reportage de Giv Anquetil et Daniel Mermet à Dacca, capitale du Bangladesh, avec 10 millions d’habitants.<br />
Une ville embouteillée en permanence. On compte environ plus de 300 000 rickshaws, des cyclo-pousses.<br />
Parcours périlleux dans Dacca entre manifestations, rickshaws, charrettes, motocyclettes, étales...<br />
Merci à Uday Shenkar, Anup Barua, Tipu Sultan du journal Prothom Alo et Myriam Bassino.</div>
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</strong> <strong>Ecoute et Podcast :</strong><br />
<p align="justify">Comme pour toutes les émissions de France Inter, les émissions de Là-bas si j'y suis peuvent être écoutées sur son site jusqu'à la diffusion de la prochaine émission. <br />
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<strong> Heureusement, le site non officiel de Là-bas si j'y suis, <a href="http://www.la-bas.org/" target="_blank">www.la-bas.org</a> , conserve et offre à tous les enregistrements de toutes les émissions de Daniel Mermet sous tous les formats audios possibles. <br />
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<p align="justify"><strong>Il propose également un service de podcast de Là-bas si j'y suis. Merci aux animateurs de ce site !<br />
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Daniel Mermet,
Giv Anquetil
2007
http://www.la-bas.org/article.php3?id_article=1273
Muslims in Indian cities: Trajectories of marginalisation
ethnicité, ethnicity, ségrégation urbaine, Muslim, Musulman, violence urbaine, conflit urbain, marginalité, société urbaine, Inde, India, Gayer Lauren, Jaffrelot Christophe
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Muslims constitute the largest minority in India yet, surprisingly, they suffer the most politically and socioeconomically. Forced to contend with severe and persistent prejudice, they often fall victim to violence and collective acts of murder. While the quality of Muslim life may lag behind that of Hindus nationally, local, inclusive cultures have been resilient in the south and the east. In the Hindi belt and in the north, Muslims have known less peace, especially in the riot-prone areas of Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Jaipur, and Aligarh, and in the capitals of former Muslim states–Delhi, Hyderabad, Bhopal, and Lucknow. These cities are rife with Muslim ghettos and slums, though self-segregation has also played a part in forming Muslim enclaves, as in Delhi and Aligarh, where traditional elites and the new Muslim middle class regrouped for physical and cultural protection. This book deploys a quantitative methodology combining firsthand testimony with sound critical analysis.</div>
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<b>Christophe Jaffrelot</b> was until recently director of the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI).</div>
<b>Laurent Gayer</b> is research director of the French Centre de Sciences Humaines in New Delhi.</div>
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NC
Columbia University Press
February 2012
320
Ouvrage
L'oubli des villes de l'Inde : pour une géographie culturelle de la ville
Inde, Chandigarh, urbanisation, bidonville, identités culturelles, modèle de ville, Louiset Odette
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Le sens de l’espace donne du sens à la ville. Cet ouvrage le démontre par l’exemple indien. Car si l’Inde est trop souvent représentée à travers des stéréotypes culturels (religiosité, castes...) ou économiques (sous-développement, émergence...), ses villes sont oubliées dans leur nature profonde.</div>
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Contrairement aux habitudes académiques qui décrivent les villes par leur forme, leur démographie et leurs activités, la ville habitée et en mouvement est saisie par l’urbanité, pour en faire une ville comme les autres. Mais l’urbanité indienne s’inscrit également en continuité avec les autres modalités de la vie en société. La ville est un comparable portant à la fois les traits de l’universel urbain (urbanité) et, ici, ceux du singulier indien (indianité), qui ne sont pas fixés en modèles idéaux.</div>
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L’oubli des villes de l’Inde, c’est l’occultation de l’indianité de la ville s’exprimant aussi bien à travers le refus des <i>slums</i> qu’à travers l’idéologie anti-urbaine gandhienne ou la persistance, dans l’échec, de planifications urbaines reprenant sans cesse les thèmes utopiques du modèle européen et colonial.</div>
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Par une approche culturelle du fait urbain, l’examen de la situation indienne prend ici valeur de "preuves" : elle démontre la nécessité de dégager le concept de ville de la référence à un modèle singulier, et de mettre à distance les modèles spatiaux couramment utilisés en géographie et en analyse urbaine. La démarche comparatiste permet ainsi d’éviter l’essentialisme culturel (ou culturalisme), mais aussi l’universalisme "européen". <br />
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<b>Odette Louiset</b> est professeure à l’université de Rouen où elle enseigne la géographie culturelle.</div>
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Odette Louiset
Armand Colin
16 novembre 2011
298
Ouvrage
Why loiter? Women and risk on Mumbai streets
Mumbai, femme, woman, genre, gender, feminism, féminisme, espace urbain, rue, marginalité, équité sociale, Inde, India, Phadke Shilpa, Khan Sameera, Ranade Shilpa
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Presenting an original take on women’s safety in the cities of twenty-first century India, Why Loiter? maps the exclusions and negotiations that women from different classes and communities encounter in the nation’s urban public spaces.<br />
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Basing this book on more than three years of research in Mumbai, Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade argue that though women’s access to urban public space has increased, they still do not have an equal claim to public space in the city. And they raise the question: can women’s access to public space be viewed in isolation from that of other marginal groups? <br />
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Going beyond the problem of the real and implied risks associated with women’s presence in public, they draw from feminist theory to argue that only by celebrating loitering—a radical act for most Indian women—can a truly equal, global city be created.</div>
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<b>Shilpa Phadke </b>is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and an Associate at PUKAR - Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research.</div>
<b>Sameera Khan </b>is a Mumbai-based journalist and writer who teaches journalism at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.</div>
<b>Shilpa Ranade </b>is an architect and a partner in the Mumbai-based design firm DCOOP.</div>
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Shilpa Phadke
Sameera Khan
Shilpa Ranade
Penguin Books India
February 2011
200
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Ahmedabad : Shock city of twentieth-century India
Ahmedabad, histoire urbaine, mouvement social, India, Inde, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, Spodek Howard
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> In the 20th century, Ahmedabad was India's "shock city." It was the place where many of the nation's most important developments occurred first and with the greatest intensity—from Gandhi’s political and labor organizing, through the growth of textile, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries, to globalization and the sectarian violence that marked the turn of the new century. Events that happened there resonated throughout the country, for better and for worse. Howard Spodek describes the movements that swept the city, telling their story through the careers of the men and women who led them.</div> </div> <b>Howard Spodek </b>is Professor of History at Temple University.</div> </div>
Howard Spodek
Indiana University Press
April 2011
352
Ouvrage
Chandigarh et Le Corbusier. Création d'une ville en Inde, 1950 - 1965
Le Corbusier, Chandigarh, Inde, ville nouvelle, histoire de l'urbanisme, Papillault Rémi
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Ce travail d’architecte-historien extrêmement fouillé et documenté traque, à l’occasion de la rencontre de l’auteur de l’Esprit nouveau, du concepteur de "la ville contemporaine pour trois millions d’habitants", avec l’Inde millénaire, les prises de conscience, corrections et remises en question de la pensée la plus puissamment abstraite qui ait jamais été conçue en matière d’urbanisme.</div>
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Comment l’histoire et la temporalité même, ainsi que l’ouverture au devenir, peuvent-elles être réintégrées dans la conception d’une ville nouvelle qui soit "d’une seule pensée", entièrement préméditée, et de "pure géométrie", c’est-à-dire rigoureusement planifiée et conçue par principe d’un point de vue exclusivement spatial  ?</div>
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Avec l’accélération sans précédent du phénomène urbain, nous sommes en effet passé, au cours du XXe siècle, d’une ère essentiellement temporelle à une ère exclusivement spatiale, du moins telle que la modernité la conçut à Brasilia comme à Chandigarh. Auparavant, comme le disait Péguy, la ville était une histoire qui devenait géographie. Mais l’on ne fait plus aujourd’hui aucune confiance au temps. L’"urbanisme moderne" né de la vieille Europe coloniale, rationaliste, et industrielle, aspire au travers de la planification (la réduction du temps à l’espace) à la parfaite prévisibilité d’une organisation sociale à toutes les échelles de la vie collective. Le Corbusier, le planiste de la première heure, tenant de l’esprit de pure géométrie, "étincelante comme du cristal", d’une rationalité salvatrice, l’auteur du "Poème de l’angle droit", tendu vers le "fait contemporain" au point de ne vouloir partout que des actes de l’esprit hors de la matière et du temps en fut le penseur et le propagandiste le plus éminent. Car c’est en fidèle héritier de l’idéalisme platonicien, que ce siècle, qui a vu s’étendre la domination de l’Occident sur le monde semble avoir négligé, oublié, voire nié les trois conditions de toute création véritable, de toute réalisation dans le monde, que sont l’autre, la matière et le temps.</div>
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La terre de l’Inde, le temps de l’Inde, les peuples et leurs cultures immémoriales viennent bouleverser les certitudes du démiurge platonicien, bon cartésien, volontiers fouriériste, qui s’est nommé, Le Corbusier. En lui le poète entend résonner l’autre monde, celui qui résiste et échappe aux idées pures et intelligibles soustraites à "la matière et aux heures", au "maître et possesseur de la nature", de la terre et du temps. Et tandis que le théoricien se débat avec les idées de sa raison, tandis qu’à chaque nouvelle rencontre avec l’Inde, "le sentiment déborde", Le Corbusier, acharné à sauver quarante ans de travaux obstinés sur la ville contemporaine, pour rester le maître incontesté de l’urbanisme moderne, face à ce réel qui est plus fort que toute pensée, remet "tout ce qu’ croyait savoir sur la ville... en question".</div>
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Mais c’est l‘oeuvre du poète qui s’impose finalement à tous, celui qui dès les années vingt disait à l’instar de Max Jacob préférer aux "vérités premières" "le mariage avec la terre", le bâtisseur du Capitole, de la tour des vents, c’est l’oeuvre du penseur inspiré et du plus grand architecte du XXe siècle, qui s’épanouit aux pieds de la chaîne himalayenne, "oeuvre ouverte" au vide où tout prend naissance, à l’espace et au temps, à la nature entière, ouverte à l’autre et au monde à venir. Ouvrant toute grande sa main aux générations futures, comme on sème dans le ciel et la terre de l’Inde, c’est bien plus que des idées qu’il nous lègue, c’est une œuvre indicible où se rejoignent l’autre, la matière et le temps, une oeuvre qui scelle, plus que tout autre acte, la naissance d’une ville enracinée dans cette terre qui recueille la mémoire des mythes fondateurs, des traces immémoriales des civilisations vivantes, et qui, sous l’ultime vérité de l’art reste ouverte aux millénaires futurs : "Pleine main j’ai reçu, pleine main je donne", épigraphe sous le toit du monde, aux pieds des sources éternelles, par lequel il nous faut aujourd’hui réévaluer l’œuvre entière du Maître. <i>(Stéphane Gruet)</i></div>
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<b>Rémi Papillault</b> est architecte, urbaniste, enseignant à l’École d’Architecture de Toulouse.</div>
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Rémi Papillault
Poïésis/AERA
Mars 2011
320
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Imagining the urban : Sanskrit and the city in early India
Inde, India, histoire urbaine, littérature, société urbaine, Kaul Shonaleeka, Sanskrit
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> In Imagining the Urban, Shonaleeka Kaul turns to Sanskrit literature to discover the characteristics—both physical and social—of ancient Indian cities. Kaul examines nearly a thousand years of Sanskrit ka¯vyas to see what India’s early historic cities were like as living, lived-in entities, and discovers that they were vibrant and teeming with variety and life.<br /> <br /> As much about Sanskrit literature as about urban spaces — insofar as that literature reveals significant aspects of the Indian urban past — Imagining the Urban shows that Sanskrit literature is a rich source for historical understanding. Advocating the ka¯vyas as an important historical source, Kaul provides a fresh view of the early city and shows distinctive ways of thought and behaviour that relate to tradition, morality and authority.<br /> <br /> With its provocative new questions about early Indian cities and ancient Indian texts, this book will be an essential read for scholars of urban history, Sanskrit writings and South Asian antiquity.</div> </div> <b>Shonaleeka Kaul</b> teaches in the Department of History, University of Delhi.</div> </div>
Shonaleeka Kaul
Seagull Books
March 2011
292
Ouvrage
Transformative cities in the new global order : Accumulation by dispossession
, aménagement de l'espace, mutation urbaine, mondialisation, pauvreté, pays en développement, droit à la ville, right to the city, néolibéralisme, politique urbaine, urbanité, transport, Banerjee-Guha Swapna, sociologie urbaine, Inde, India
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Globalisation and a neo-liberal world order are impacting the global urban system, resulting in massive transformation of cities across the world. This transformation, which is currently the centre of focus among sociologists, will continue as more and more city spaces are occupied in the wake of globalization.<br /> <br /> This book is a collection of essays written by some of the most famous theoreticians and academics in the area of urban studies on this transformation process of cities and its socio-economic ramifications.<br /> <br /> These essays analyse the signs of intense spatial crisis in metropolises, revealing the contradictory processes of integration and segmentation that characterise the critical nature of global city space. Crisis of urban space in such cities, the book argues, is essentially related to their placement in the world city system and the limitations in their globalocal networks. Restructuring spaces also leads to differentiated and contradictory processes, the book reveals, since not all segments of the population are affected equally.The process benefits only parts of society and, therefore, only parts of the city space. This book shows how Centre and Periphery, reflect the differentiation between global society and segmented localities, how these stand spatially anchored, creating a background of intense urban conflicts.<br /> <br /> This volume explores and exposes a divided framework in which globalisation operates towards fragmentation and polarization; debunking the myth of homogenisation. The essays reveal that cities and regions across the world get incorporated into this system, exhibiting characteristics that are more diverse and complex than ever before especially due to the increasingly contradictory relationship with their local resource and cultural base.</div> </div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> Introduction: Transformative Cities in the New Global Order - Swapna Banerjee-Guha<br /> The Right to the City: From Capital Surplus to Accumulation by Dispossession - David Harvey<br /> The Global City: Strategic Site, New Frontier - Saskia Sassen<br /> Manufacturing Neoliberalism: Lifestyling Indian Urbanity - Solomon Benjamin<br /> Global Capital, Neo-Liberal Politics and Terrains of Resistance in Vienna - Heinz Nissel<br /> Globalisation and Transformation of Dhaka City - Nazrul Islam and Salma A Shafi<br /> 'Hi-Tech' Hyderabad and the Urban Poor: Reformed out of the System - Umesh Varma<br /> Reconfiguring Power Relationships: Policies towards Urban Services in Mumbai - Marie-Helene Zerah<br /> Urban Transport Projects in a Globalised Scenario - Darryl D'Monte<br /> Urban Public Space and the Urban Poor - Sharit Bhowmik<br /> Revisiting Accumulation by Dispossession: Neoliberalising Mumbai - Swapna Banerjee-Guha</div> </div> <b>Swapna Banerjee-Guha</b> is Professor of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences</div> </div>
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SAGE
April 2010
268
Ouvrage
Accès à l'eau dans les territoires urbains : expériences indiennes et françaises
accès à l'eau, approvisionnement en eau, gestion des services de l'eau, politique publique, périurbanisation, mégapole, Grenoble, Bangalore, Inde, Saillard Yves, Sastry Gundappa Sathyanarayana
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Dans un contexte de développement urbain et de périurbanisation rapides, l'accès à l'eau potable se révèle être un véritable défi pour les services d'approvisionnement de certaines mégapoles. Les perspectives démographiques, la limitation des ressources les plus directement disponibles et leur possible dégradation semblent difficiles à concilier avec les objectifs de satisfaction des besoins de la population et la volonté d'un accès équitable à l'eau.</div>
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Cet ouvrage présente les systèmes d'approvisionnement en eau de plusieurs grandes villes en France et en Inde. Ce partage d'expériences permet une réflexion sur les modes alternatifs de tarification, sur la délégation des services d'approvisionnement et de traitement ainsi que sur les formes d'implication de la population dans la gestion des services de l'eau.</div>
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S'appuyant sur ces différents cas, <i>Accès à l'eau dans les territoires urbains</i> développe les éléments d'une prospective à partir d'une méthode de simulation, WATER_UP, et de scénarios d'évolution de l'approvisionnement de ces mégapoles. Il analyse également les questions qui obligent désormais les politiques publiques à réévaluer intégralement leurs objectifs, à redéfinir leurs pratiques et à repenser leurs critères d'efficience.</div>
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<b>Yves Saillard</b>, économiste, chargé de recherche au CNRS, est chercheur au Laboratoire d’économie de la production et de l’intégration internationale (LEPII) de l'université de Grenoble.</div>
<b>Gundappa Sathyanarayana Sastry</b> enseigne à l'Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, Inde.</div>
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Yves Saillard,
Gundappa S. Sastry
Hermès-Lavoisier
Avril 2010
249
Ouvrage
The great cities of the modern world
Smith Helen Ainslie, grandes villes, monde moderne, dix-neuvième siècle, Russie, Angleterre, France, Allemagne, Scandinavie, Hollande, Belgique, Suisse, Irlande, Ecosse, Espagne, Portugal, Italie, Empire Austro-Hongrois, Empire Ottoman, Inde, Chine, Japon, Amérique du Sud, Canada, Mexique, Etats Unis
From the preface by Hazel Shepard (September 1885) : There is a saying, as old as it is true, that he who would be a writer must first of all have something to write something new to tell, or some new or better way of putting forth what is already known. This volume has not been called into existence as something new, but because there was not, so far as could be found, any work devoted entirely to a description of the outward appearance and real position of the GREAT CITIES OF THE MODERN WORLD. A metropolis represents a focus of power; the chief forces of a country's civilization are centered in its great towns; and it has been believed that in giving a description of the large cities of the chief countries of the world, and bringing them together in a classified volume, there will be presented in a condensed form the leading features, not only of the great cities of the world, as a whole, but also of the civic national life of all the important countries of the globe. The endeavor has been to prepare a book instructive and interesting to readers of all ages, but especially to place before young people a clear and, in a measure, complete idea of the greatest cities of our time, rated according to size, importance in intellectual, commercial, and manufacturing power, and descriptive of population and architectural appearance. In all cases the aim has been to make the leading features either of a single city or a national group stand out prominently and leave the strongest impression. To combine all these characteristics into a single volume upon so broad a subject it has been necessary to consult a multitude of authorities; and, although these are far too many for the briefest enumeration, it is but just to acknowledge that valuable aid has been received from the standard encyclopaedias and from nearly all the leading works of reference of both special and general character whose scope comes in any way within that of the Great Cities of the Modern World. NB : This work is available from the Internet Archive in multiple formats : online, PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Daisy, Full Text, and DjVu. We recommend the PDF format (68 MB), both for ease of reading and because it has been scanned using OCR, allowing searches of the full text.
Helen Ainslie Smith
George Routledge & Sons
1885
433
Ouvrage
http://www.archive.org/details/greatcitiesofmod00smitrich
Integrated city making: Governance, planning and transport
croissance urbaine, India, Inde, Mumbai, Bombay, Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, urbanisation, gouvernance, aménagement urbain, transport, London, Londres, New York, Berlin, Johannesburg, politique urbaine, Urban Age
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Integrated City Making is a report by Philipp Rode, Julie Wagner, Richard Brown, Rit Chandra and Jayaraj Sundaresan of the Urban Age Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2007, Urban Age undertook a research programme in Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi and Bangalore followed by the Urban Age India Conference in Mumbai, to understand and assess how these cities are responding to the challenges of growth, and to compare these approaches to those adopted in other cities throughout the world.<br /> <br /> India's cities are at the forefront of a global shift to an urban society. Assessing various responses to the challenges of dramatic urban growth, Integrated City Making compares government, planning and transport in four Indian cities to those adopted in London, New York, Berlin and Johannesburg.<br /> <br /> The four Indian cities have a population of 35 million people (78 million including wider metropolitan regions and Delhi's National Capital Region), and an economy valued at $360 billion within their agglomerations.</div> </div> <b>Contents:</b></div> </div> 1. Introduction</div> 2. Urban India challenges</div> 3. Cities compared</div> 4. Integrated city making</div> 5. Implications for policy</div> Appendices</div> </div>
Phillipp Rode Julie Wagner Richard Brown Rit Chandra Jayaraj Sundaresan
Urban Age Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science
July 2008
196
Autre
http://urban-age.net/publications/reports/india/
EchoGéo n° 21, 2012
ville émergente, émergence, politique urbaine, espace public, Chine, Le Cap, HÓ Chí Minh Ville, Hanoi, Séoul, Mexico, Istanbul, Inde
<div><b>Sommaire du n° 21 d'EchoGéo</b> :</div>
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<b>Editorial</b><br />
Jean-Louis Chaléard - Sous le signe de l’émancipation<br />
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<b>Sur le Métier</b><br />
<i>Art et géographie</i></div>
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Anne Volvey - Oeuvrer d’art l’espace. Entretiens avec Till Roeskens et La Luna (artistes)<br />
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<b>Sur le Champ/Sur le Terrai</b>n<br />
<i>Pays émergents</i></div>
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Antoine Fleury et Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch - Pour une géographie sociale des pays émergents. Introduction du dossier<br />
Léo Kloeckner - Les effets de l’émergence sur les discours officiels de promotion de la modernisation en Chine<br />
Thomas Radovcic - L’émergence par la créativité au Cap<br />
Emmanuelle Peyvel et Marie Gibert - Đi chới đi ! « Allons nous amuser ! ». Entre public et privé, une approche socio-spatiale des pratiques de loisirs à Hồ Chí Minh Ville<br />
Benjamin Taunay et Philippe Violier - L’émergence au prisme du tourisme chinois<br />
Gwenn Pulliat - Se nourrir à Hanoi : les recompositions du système alimentaire d’une ville émergente<br />
Claire Hancock - Une lecture de politiques urbaines genrées dans des pays émergents<br />
Solene Baffi - Pratiques d'une métropole émergente par les usagers des transports en commun, le cas du Cap, Afrique du Sud<br />
Yves Duchère - La rareté de l’espace dans les villages de métier du delta du Fleuve Rouge : l’exemple des stratégies socio spatiales villageoises dans la commune de Phong Khe, province de Bac Ninh<br />
Delphine Pages-El Karoui - Géographie du changement social en Égypte<br />
Notices bibliographiques<br />
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<b>Sur l'Ecrit</b></div>
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Federico Ferretti - La redécouverte d’Élisée Reclus : à propos d’ouvrages récents<br />
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<b>Sur l'Image</b></div>
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Valérie Gelézeau - Séoul : la transition « sur le vif » des espaces publics de proximité (1995-2010)<br />
Claire Hancock - Le paysan sur la grand'place : images du Zócalo de Mexico<br />
Julien Lapeyre de Cabanes - Dans la vitrine d’Istanbul : consommation et renouvellement urbain sur l’avenue de l’İstiklâl<br />
Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch - "Peace is a cup of coffee" : espaces publics dans Le Cap post-apartheid<br />
Aurélie Varrel - Brigade Road et Church Street, Bengaluru (Inde) : des espaces publics où « l’Inde qui brille » se met en scène</div>
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NC
EchoGéo
Juillet-septembre 2012
Revue
http://echogeo.revues.org/13048