Name: Assorted City: Equity, Justice and Politics in Urban Services Delivery
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Assorted City: Equity, Justice and Politics in Urban Services Delivery

by Suptendu P. Biswas

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ISBN13: 9788126938728
Binding: Hardcover
Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
Publication Date: February 6, 2024
Pages: 278
Original Price: INR 1195.0
Language: English
Edition: N/A
Item Weight: 480 grams
BISAC Subject(s): Political Process / General

About The Book

A rare piece of research on the game of urban services delivery in an Indian metropolis. Independent India envisioned the idea of democracy with equality and liberty as its basic tenets. To accomplish this idea, planning was adopted as the policy to take the new nation forward. Assorted City argues that planning has inherent traits of the multiple techniques of governmentality resulting in the politics of distribution which, with its unpredictable consequences, supersedes the policy of distribution. Based on an empirical study of water supply in Delhi and grounded in theory, this book makes an original reading of the city that is highly relevant for the study of contemporary urbanism. Moreover, such observations of the city are made through the lens of urban services delivery, which is unique in itself. Assorted City makes an important contribution to urban planning discourses in India by offering an in-depth conceptual and theoretical insight to address theory-practice dichotomy. A unique work on urban services delivery in an Indian city, it narrates how equity and justice are manipulated in the process. It captures generic urban processes in three ways: the questions it raises about planning, the multifaceted methodological perspective it introduces, and the commitment it underlines toward social justice and equity in a democracy.

About The Author

Suptendu P. Biswas is an architect, urban designer, and planning professional involved in teaching, research, and consultancy. He is a graduate from B.E. College (IIEST), Shibpur, and is a postgraduate and doctorate from the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi. He works on built environment, urbanism, spatial equity, and sociology of culture.

Table of Contents

Contents
ix
xi
xiii
xv
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements xix
1. Introduction 1
Part I: Positions and Propositions
2. Ideology, Policy, and Governmentality 19
3. Planning and Its Practices of Delivery 36
4. Politics of Distribution 65
Part II: Politics of Distribution in Water Supply
5. Physical Setting and the Method of Study 81
6. Socioeconomic Spaces and Property Rights 104
7. Water Supply and Socioeconomic Spaces 117
8. Water Supply, Political Funding, and Socioeconomic Spaces 169
Part III: Assorted City
9. Politics of Practices, Its Ambiguity, and Governmentality 191
10. Equity Mosaics and Assorted City 220
Select Bibliography 231
Index 251
About the Author 258

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