The Politics of Urban Land in South Asia
Current Challenges and New Directions
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The Politics of Urban Land in South Asia
Current Challenges and New Directions
About this book
Cities in South Asia are homes to one of the highest concentrations of people anywhere in the world and the allocation of land and urban resources and the benefits that can be derived from them in this region have become increasingly contested. This volume explores the politics of urban land in South Asia and the challenges related to their respective urban futures.
For most people, land comes at a premium, and as a result conflicts and contestations over land and urban resources are rife in countries such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal, as witnessed in the many struggles of low-income groups and vulnerable or marginalised communities to fight off dispossession or displacement. This book maps current challenges shared across national borders and charts out new directions for future research and land policy. With contributions from emerging and established authors, the volume offers a critical accounting of the situation that exists in urban South Asia, while also critically engaging with the current challenges and future directions for land use and land politics.
The book will be useful to students and researchers of public policy, development studies, economics, urban and regional development studies, and sociology as well as to policy makers, real estate professionals, and commercial firms engaged in property market/real estate study in Asia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- 1 The politics of urban land in South Asia
- 2 Dispossession and the militarised developer state: state and class power on the agrarian-urban frontier of Islamabad, Pakistan
- 3 Land use planning, dispossession and contestation in Goa, India
- 4 Informal settlements: an entanglement of shifting landscapes, precarious geographies, and contested territories
- 5 Land, state-making, and territorialization in post-war Sri Lanka
- 6 Urban land grabbing and environmental destruction in Kathmandu Valley
- 7 The idea of land justice in urban Bangladesh
- 8 This house is not a home: the struggle for spatial justice in post-war Colombo
- 9 What is urban land? Current challenges and new directions
- 10 Revisiting the urban land question at the extensions of Lahore: people’s infrastructural labour towards (im)permanent settlement
- 11 Scaling up of land pooling process for inclusive urban development in Nepal
- 12 The new frontier: a critical reflection on Delhi’s Land Pooling Policy (LPP)
- Index