Ecologies of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability

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Adams, John 87 Adyar Poonga eco-park 158–62 brief opening 162 Adyar Poonga Trust (APT) 160 Agamben, Giorgio 174 Agarwal, Pankaj 263, 265 Ahmad, Justice S. Saghir 184 Akrama Sakrama Scheme 45–6 opposition to 46 Almitra Patel v. Union of India 184, 186–9 Anand, Nikhil 211–12 Ansals 132 Appadurai, Arjun 24–5, 60, 229, 234 Auyero, J. 15 Awasthi, Raj 238 Bajaj Committee (Surat) 183 see also waste management Bajpai, Ravi 264 Baker, Herbert 3 Balian, Ajay 191–2 Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) 237 Bangalore, see Bengaluru Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF) 44, 45, 47 Bangalore Development Committee 51, 53 Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority 53 Barman, Asim 187 Asim Barman Committee Report 187, 188 Bauman, Zygmunt 174 Baviskar, Amita 20, 50, 72, 225, 226 beautification projects 28 Bengaluru 4, 25, 43–64 critiques of planning 48–50 development stages 52 planning legislation 44, 45–6 population growth 51 regularization of property 45–6 state intervention in planning 51–5 see also Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF); Infrastructure and Development Taskforce (ABIDe) Benjamin, Solomon 49, 240–1 Benjamin, Walter 170, 172 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 44 Bhattacharya, Neeladri 58–9 Bhure Lal Committee 83 biophysical-technological complex 2, 14 Bogle, J. Linton 103–4, 105 Bombay, see Mumbai Bombay Improvement Trust 22, 100 Bombay Municipal Corporation 208 Brooks, Joss 160–1 Buch, M. N. 135 Calcutta, see Kolkata Calvino, Italo 169, 194 castaway economy 49–50 caste 22 communitarian obligations 22 Index 278 Index discrepancies 29–30 as form of capital 59 in Gurgaon 136 uses of space 57–8 Chalana, Manish 4, 23 Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan 55 Chandigarh 4, 50, 95 Chandrasekhar, Rajeev 44–5 Chatterjee, Partha 21, 49–50, 55, 56 chawls 23, 110 see also slums Chennai 3, 4 fires in slums 145–6 as global city 147, 158 land and water bodies 145–63 Second Master Plan 149 slum dweller resettlement 145–65 Sustainable Chennai Project (SCP) 150 see also Pallikaranai Marsh; Tamil Nadu Chennai Corporation 160 Chennai Rivers Restoration Trust (CRRT) 162 Chicago School 10–11 Chopra, P. 21–22 Citizen and Consumer Action Group 159 citizenship 9 environmental 226 graduated 226 languages of 63 politics of 16, 21 urban 16–25 civility 17, 24 class discrepancies 29–30 clean-up campaigns 250 colonial India development of enclaves 98–9 social division in 55–9 vested interests 56–7 Commonwealth Games 2010 (Delhi) 71, 267 Community Based Organizations (CBOs) 49 community fracturing of 16 in urban context 8 community listening schemes 106 conservation politics of 10 see also ecological sustainability; environmentalism consumer society 177–8 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) 84–7 Crawford, Arthur 57 crime 263–4 critical geography 11 cultural-historical dialectic 170, 172 Dalit sweepers DMC action against 181–2 Das, Veena 54, 60, 63 Davis, M. 155 Dawson, A. 5 De Angelis, Massimo 172 deep democracy 63 Delhi 3, 6, 17–18 air pollution 71–88 air quality 26 Clean Delhi, Green Delhi campaign 250, 267, 270 discourse of slum-free 249–71 as global city 4, 71, 72, 176, 249, 251, 258, 270 history of development 18–19 Master Plan 74, 76, 78–80, 119, 128, 130, 132 rapid growth 4, 20 urban planning 19–20 zoning of industries 74–6 see also slums; vehicular pollution Delhi Central Pollution Control Committee (DCCC) 71, 77–9 Delhi Development Authority (DDA) 19, 76, 134, 135, 251, 270 Delhi Land and Finance (DLF) 130, 132, 136 Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMC) 180, 181, 183 Index 279 Delhi Pollution Control Board (DPCB) 81; National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring (NAAQM) Network 81 Dewey, Clive 96 Douglas, Mary 173, 250, 256 Durkheim, Emile 97, 107 Dutta, Arindam 102 ecological footprint 1–2 sustainability 4, 13–16 systems 2 theory 1–2 ecosystem science 13 Edwards, B. 5 Ehrlich, Paul 6 Emergency 19 enclosure strategies 172 Environment Society of Madras 159 environment as element of urban modernity 73 urban stresses on 7 environmental design 13 subjectivity 226 sustainability, see ecological sustainability environmentalism bourgeois 225, 227 impact on poor 189 Eri Scheme 149 ethnographic theory 9 exemptions, see flexible planning Exnora 159 expulsion in Delhi 73–80 see also slum dweller resettlement Faridabad 128–9, 134–5, 136 as city of hope 132 as industrial town 130 as new town 131–2 Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) 45 Fernandez, Leela 23–4 flexible planning 27, 123–7, 137...