Author: Annapurna Shaw
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 310
ISBN/UPC (if available): 978-81-250-2600-6
Description
This book uses the case of the Navi Mumbai urban project to bring out many of the problems inherent in the urbanisation process and in the nature of urban policy-making in post-colonial India. It illustrates how even a new city, built from scratch, is riddled with social and economic contradictions-well-planned and serviced areas coexisting with slums and shanties.
The work questions some of the accepted solutions to urban policy especially with regard to urban land and distribution of civic infrastructure. Navi Mumbai is being used as a model for building new towns outside other cities in India. This detailed case study of Navi Mumbai reveals the strengths and weaknesses of this model of urbanisation and indicates the policy directions that can obliterate the duality that has characterised the Indian city all through the twentieth century.
Contents
LIST OF MAPS
LIST OF TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER1
Ideas of Planning and How they Shaped the Indian City
CHAPTER 2
Political and Economic Framework of Urban Policy-Making in Post-Independent India
CHAPTER 3
The Planning of Navi Mumbai
CHAPTER 4
The Development of Navi Mumbai
CHAPTER 5
Land Pricing and Land Development within the Planned Nodes
CHAPTER 6
Housing in Navi Mumbai
CHAPTER 7
Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation:
The Making of Social Conflict
CHAPTER 8
The Unplanned Areas of Navi Mumbai
CHAPTER 9
Conclusion
List of References
Glossary
Index