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Dholera

Vol. 51, Issue No. 17, 23 Apr, 2016
Preeti Sampat

A growing rentier economy is driving urbanisation infrastructure projects in India without distributive linkages with industrialisation. This rentier economy brings within its purview various combinations of policy such as speculative land markets, real estate and other urban infrastructure investments by global and domestic investors, private consultants and developers, interests within the state at various levels, and landowners willing and able to benefit from rentiering. It hinges crucially on ownership of land, and hence on deeply unequal geographies of rent. There is a need to distinguish rent-driven urbanisation infrastructure projects from industrialisation and concomitant job-creation. The peasantry emerges as absolute surplus population irrelevant to this geography of rent, except as an obstacle to growth.

National Policy for Street Vendors

Vol. 38, Issue No. 16, 19 Apr, 2003
Sharit K Bhowmik

Street vendors across several Indian cities have generally been regarded as nuisance value, their presence seen as inimical to urban development. However, the range of goods and services they provide renders them useful to other sections of the urban poor and thus they form an important segment of the informal economy. A draft national policy on street vendors argues that needs of this section are vital for urban planning purposes. Regulation of vendors and hawking zones and granting vendors a voice in civic administration need to become definitive elements of urban development policy.

Dichotomy or Continuum

Vol. 37, Issue No. 50, 14 Dec, 2002
A Subramanian, Amitabh Kundu, Basanta K Pradhan

Spatial dimension of development continues to be a neglected area in economic analysis. As a consequence, the traditional models of development fail to explain the growing imbalance in space as also the widening gaps in levels of socio-economic development between the city and its periphery. The objective of the present paper is to analyse if indeed the distance of a village from the nearest town has a systematic impact on its socio-economic characteristics.The distributional pattern of the indicators of economic well-being, health, education, etc, shows that their values do not necessarily decline along smooth gradients, as we move from the city/town to its periphery.

Shifting Cities

Vol. 37, Issue No. 02, 12 Jan, 2002
Swapna Banerjee-Guha

This paper attempts to examine the ideology and politics directing the urban development process in Mumbai through an empirical understanding. Beginning with a discussion of the growth process of the built environment, the paper examines the contemporary restructuration process in the city in the light of the recent MMRDA plan and other initiatives and attempts to develop a critique of the entire process of recent urbanisation.

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