Contesting the Indian City Global Visions and the Politics of the Local

Contesting the Indian City features a collection ofcutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues ofpolitics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modernIndia.Features studies that serve to deepen our theoreticalunderstandings of the changes that Indian cities areexperiencingExamines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, andreforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shapingurban spatial change in IndiaThe first volume to bring themes of urban political reform,municipal finance, land markets, and real estate industry togetherin an international publication