Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Contested Urbanism in Delhi’s Interstitial Spaces....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Seeing and Governing Street Hawkers Like a Fragmented Metropolitan State....Pages 21-34
Understanding Participation in a Heterogeneous Community: The Resettlement of Kathputli Colony....Pages 35-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
“Propertied Ambiguity”: Negotiating the State in a Delhi Resettlement Colony....Pages 59-76
Urban Negotiations and Small-Scale Gentrification in a Delhi Resettlement Colony....Pages 77-89
Incipient Informality in Delhi’s “Formalized” Suburban Space....Pages 91-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Between Informalities: Mahipalpur Village as an Entrepreneurial Space....Pages 113-136
Unpacking the “Unauthorized Colony”: Policy, Planning and Everyday Lives....Pages 137-161
The Shape/ing of Industrial Landscapes: Life, Work and Occupations in and Around Industrial Areas in Delhi....Pages 163-180
Megaproject, Rules and Relationships with the Law: The Metro Rail in East Delhi....Pages 181-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Housing, Spatial-Mobility and Paid Domestic Work in Millennial Delhi: Narratives of Women Domestic Workers....Pages 201-217
Bus/Bas/बस: The 2012 Delhi Gang Rape Case, City Space and Public Transportation....Pages 219-233