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The reporter, the flâneur, and the critic: The urbanist as outsider in the South Asian mega-city

Abstract from the distributor: ‘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…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, Bombay, culture urbaine, flâneur, Hogan Trevor, Inde, India, mégapole, Mumbai, New Delhi, sociologie urbaine, urbanism, urbanisme, urbanist, urbaniste

China and India: Governance, urban development, and sustainability in the cities of the Global South

Organisers' description : 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…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, China, Chine, développement durable, développement urbain, gouvernance, Inde, India, infrastructures, Kundu Ratoola, Lal Kamna, mutation urbaine, pays en développement, Perry David C., service public, Sun Meng, Wang Lan, Weisberg Barry

India's urban transformation : From challenge to opportunity

Aromar Revi 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,…

Mots-clés: croissance urbaine, économie, Inde, India, mutation urbaine, Revi Aromar, urbanisation

State, space and citizenship : Indian cities in the global era

Organisers' description : “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…

Mots-clés: Benjamin Solomon, citoyenneté, croissance urbaine, droit à la ville, espace urbain, genre, gouvernance, Inde, India, politique de la ville, société urbaine, Sundaram Ravi, urbanisation, Vohra Paromita

Old city, new city : Locating the past in urban India

Organisers' description : 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,…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, histoire urbaine, Inde, India, patrimoine, Sundaram Ravi, urbanisation, utopie

Economic and social change and violence in Ahmadabad 1950-2000

Abstract from the distributor : 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…

Mots-clés: Ahmadabad, Ahmedabad, aménagement de l'espace, conflit urbain, développement urbain, fragmentation sociale, Inde, India, ségrégation urbaine, tissu urbain, violence urbaine

Urban age : Mumbai

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…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, changement climatique, équité sociale, gouvernance, Inde, India, logement, logement social, Mumbai, pauvreté, pays en développement, planification, urbanisation, ville durable

Muslims in Indian cities: Trajectories of marginalisation

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Abstract from the publisher: 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…

Mots-clés: conflit urbain, ethnicité, ethnicity, Gayer Lauren, Inde, India, Jaffrelot Christophe, marginalité, Muslim, Musulman, ségrégation urbaine, société urbaine, violence urbaine

Why loiter? Women and risk on Mumbai streets

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Abstract from the publisher : 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…

Mots-clés: équité sociale, espace urbain, feminism, féminisme, femme, gender, genre, Inde, India, Khan Sameera, marginalité, Mumbai, Phadke Shilpa, Ranade Shilpa, rue, woman

Ahmedabad : Shock city of twentieth-century India

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Abstract from the publisher : 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…

Mots-clés: Ahmedabad, histoire urbaine, Inde, India, mouvement social, Spodek Howard, twentieth century, vingtième siècle

Imagining the urban : Sanskrit and the city in early India

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Abstract from the publisher : 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…

Mots-clés: histoire urbaine, Inde, India, Kaul Shonaleeka, littérature, Sanskrit, société urbaine

Transformative cities in the new global order : Accumulation by dispossession

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Abstract from the publisher : 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…

Mots-clés: aménagement de l'espace, Banerjee-Guha Swapna, droit à la ville, Inde, India, mondialisation, mutation urbaine, néolibéralisme, pauvreté, pays en développement, politique urbaine, right to the city, sociologie urbaine, transport, urbanité

Integrated city making: Governance, planning and transport

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Abstract from the publisher: 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…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Bangalore, Berlin, Bombay, croissance urbaine, Delhi, gouvernance, Inde, India, Johannesburg, Kolkata, London, Londres, Mumbai, New York, politique urbaine, transport, Urban Age, urbanisation

Review of urban affairs: The commons. Economic and Political Weekly (Vol. XLVI, No. 50)

Anant Maringanti is an independent scholar specialising in human geography, based in Hyderabad. Amita Baviskar is at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. Karen Coelho is at the Madras Institute of Development Studies. Vinay Gidwani is…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Bangalore, Baviskar Amita, Bombay, Coelho Karen, commons, commun, Delhi, droit à la ville, écologie urbaine, économie, espace public, Gidwani Vinay, Inde, India, Maringanti Anant, Mumbai, politique urbaine, Sood Ashima

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