1st Edition
Remaking Cities Urban Reforms in Ahmedabad and Kanpur, India
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction: Why Urban Reform Initiatives Fail?
2 Conceptualising the Municipal Organisation
3 Implementing JNNURM: Ahmedabad and Kanpur
4 Making of the Municipal Organisation: Ahmedabad
5 Making of the Municipal Organisation: Kanpur
6 Making of Municipal Capacity: Ahmedabad and Kanpur
7 Conclusion: Political Determinants of Remaking Cities
Annexure-I: List of Cities Included under the JNNURM
Annexure-II: The Constitution (74th Amendment) Act, 1992
Annexure-III: Suggested Dos and Don'ts for Preparation of City Development Plan (CDP) JNNURM
Index
Biography
Praveen Priyadarshi is Assistant Professor of Politics at IIIT, Delhi. He is interested in urban politics, democracy and governance. He brings the categories of space, institutions and policies to bear upon the conceptualisation of everyday politics in the cities of the global South. A PhD in Development Studies from the London School of Economics, he has been an associate at the Crisis States Research Centre, LSE and the Developing Countries Research Centre (DCRC), University of Delhi. He was also the Tata PhD Fellow at the Asia Research Centre (ARC), LSE.
