Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Note on Confidentiality
Abbreviations
Introduction: Bengaluru as Urban Future
Part I: Speculative Stories
	Chapter 1. Envisioning the City
	Chapter 2. The IT Juggernaut
	Chapter 3. Only Beautiful Plans
	Chapter 4. Building the High Life
Part II: Financial Stratagems
	Chapter 5. Capital Times in Bengaluru
	Chapter 6. Low Finance in the World City
	Chapter 7. The Real Estate Fix
Part III: State Speculations
	Chapter 8. Re-placing Labor
	Chapter 9. Metro Mutations
	Chapter 10. Moving Matters
Part IV: Speculative Subjects
	Chapter 11. From Worker to Landlord
	Chapter 12. Slum Dealings
	Chapter 13. “Why Not Us?”
	Chapter 14. The Caste of Land
Part V: Labor in the Speculative City
	Chapter 15. Constructing Precarity
	Chapter 16. Whose Streets?
	Chapter 17. Chasing Targets, Making a Life
	Chapter 18. Serving the New Middle Class
Part VI: Ecologies of Speculation
	Chapter 19. The New “Commons”
	Chapter 20. Leakages of Affluence
	Chapter 21. Guarding the Lake
	Chapter 22. Reinventing the City
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
Photo Essay: Life in the Speculative City
Spatial Images Depicting Expansion of Built-up Area and Changing Land Cover in Bengaluru, 2000–2001