Smart City in India

Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory?
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-60778-1
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 130 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 370 g

This book is a critical reflection on the Smart City Mission in India. Drawing on ethnographic data from across Indian cities, this volume assesses the transformative possibilities and limitations of the program. It examines the ten core infrastructural elements that make up a city, including water, electricity, waste, mobility, housing, environment, health, and education, and lays down the basic tenets of urban policy in India. The volume underlines the need to recognize liminal spaces and the plans to make the ‘smart city’ an inclusive one. The authors also look at maintaining a link between the older heritage of a city and the emerging urban space.

This volume will be of great interest to planners, urbanists, and policymakers, as well as scholars and researchers of urban studies and planning, architecture, and sociology and social anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Binti

Parmar, Manoj

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Smart City Mission in India 3. Packing History and Culture with Smartness: The Cases of Lucknow and Varanasi 4. Urbanism, Urban Design and Planned Historic Cities 5. Reimagining the Planning Paradigm in India 6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Binti Singh, Associate Editor, Oxford Urbanists and Faculty, Master’s Program in Urban Design and Conservation, KRVIA, Mumbai, India.

Manoj Parmar, Practicing Architect and Dean, Master’s Program in Urban Design and Conservation, KRVIA, Mumbai, India.