Assorted City : Equity, Justice, and Politics in Urban Services Delivery

A unique work on urban service delivery in an Indian city, narrates how equity and justice are manipulated in the process.;Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 -- Introduction; PART 1: Positions and Propositions; 2 -- Ideology, Policy, and Governmentality; 3 -- Planning and Its Practices of Delivery; 4 -- Politics of Distribution; PART II: Politics of Distribution in Water Supply; 5 -- Physical Setting and the Method of Study; 6 -- Socioeconomic Spaces and Property Rights; 7 -- Water Supply and Socioeconomic Spaces; 8 -- Water Supply, Political Funding, and Socioeconomic Spaces; PART III: Assorted City; 9 -- Politics of Practices, Its Ambiguity, and Governmentality; 10 -- Equity Mosaics and Assorted City. A rare piece of research on the game of urban services delivery in an Indian metropolis. Assorted City makes an important contribution to urban planning discourses in India by offering an in-depth conceptual and theoretical insight to address theory–practice dichotomy. A unique work on urban services delivery in an Indian city, it narrates how equity and justice are manipulated in the process. It captures generic urban processes in three ways: the questions it raises about planning, the multifaceted methodological perspective it introduces, and the commitment it underlines toward social justice and equity in a democracy. This book explores and exposes the interplay between urban existence and the politics of service delivery. Assorted City makes an important contribution to urban planning discourses in India by offering an in-depth conceptual and theoretical insight to address theory-practice dichotomy. A unique work on urban services delivery in an Indian city, it narrates how equity and justice are manipulated in the process. It captures generic urban processes in three ways: the questions it raises about planning, the multifaceted methodological perspective it introduces, and the commitment it underlines toward social justice and equity in a democracy. This book explores and exposes the interplay between urban existence and the politics of service delivery. Book jacket Cover Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 -- Introduction PART 1: Positions and Propositions 2 -- Ideology, Policy, and Governmentality 3 -- Planning and Its Practices of Delivery 4 -- Politics of Distribution PART II: Politics of Distribution in Water Supply 5 -- Physical Setting and the Method of Study 6 -- Socioeconomic Spaces and Property Rights 7 -- Water Supply and Socioeconomic Spaces 8 -- Water Supply, Political Funding, and Socioeconomic Spaces PART III: Assorted City 9 -- Politics of Practices, Its Ambiguity, and Governmentality 10 -- Equity Mosaics and Assorted City. Select BibliographyIndex About the Author. Suptendu P. Biswas. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.