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Ecologies of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability

Anne Rademacher

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Essays follow rapidly proliferating and resource-intensive Indian urbanism in everyday environments. Case studies on nature conservation in cities, urban housing and slum development, waste management, urban planning, and contestations over the quality of air, water, and sanitation in Delhi and Mumbai illuminate urban ecology perspectives throughout the twentieth century. The collection highlights how struggles over the environment and one’s quality of life in urban centers are increasingly framed in terms of their future place in a landscape of global sustainability. The text brings historical particularity and ethnographic nuance to questions of urban ecology and offers novel insight into theoretical and practical debates on urbanism and sustainability.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Release: March 09, 2013

ISBN: 9888139762

ISBN 13: 9789888139767

Ecologies of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability

Anne Rademacher

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Essays follow rapidly proliferating and resource-intensive Indian urbanism in everyday environments. Case studies on nature conservation in cities, urban housing and slum development, waste management, urban planning, and contestations over the quality of air, water, and sanitation in Delhi and Mumbai illuminate urban ecology perspectives throughout the twentieth century. The collection highlights how struggles over the environment and one’s quality of life in urban centers are increasingly framed in terms of their future place in a landscape of global sustainability. The text brings historical particularity and ethnographic nuance to questions of urban ecology and offers novel insight into theoretical and practical debates on urbanism and sustainability.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Release: March 09, 2013

ISBN: 9888139762

ISBN 13: 9789888139767

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