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Governing the Urban in China and India
Xuefei Ren
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residents
Urbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This transformation has unleashed enormous pressures on land use, housing, and the environment. Despite the stakes, the workings of urban governance in China and India remain obscure and poorly understood.
In this book, Xuefei Ren explores how China and India govern their cities and how their different styles of governance produce inequality and exclusion. Drawing upon historical-comparative analyses and extensive fieldwork (in Beijing, Guangzhou, Wukan, Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata), Ren investigates the ways that Chinese and Indian cities manage land acquisition, slum clearance, and air pollution. She discovers that the two countries address these issues through radically different approaches. In China, urban governance centers on territorial institutions, such as hukou and the cadre evaluation system. In India, urban governance centers on associational politics, encompassing contingent alliances formed among state actors, the private sector, and civil society groups. Ren traces the origins of territorial and associational forms of governance to late imperial China and precolonial India. She then shows how these forms have evolved to shape urban growth and residents’ struggles today.
As the number of urban residents in China and India reaches beyond a billion, Governing the Urban in China and India makes clear that the development of cities in these two nations will have profound consequences well beyond their borders.
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Politics, Activism, Urban renewal, Redevelopment, Colonialism, Politician, Welfare, Hukou system, Funding, Policy, Urbanization, State-owned enterprise, Central government, Household, Government agency, China, Hukou, County-level city, Pearl River Delta, Non-governmental organization, Pollution in China, Guangzhou, Air pollution, Economic development, Private sector, Protest, Employment, Pollution, Civil society, Favela, Devolution, Government of India, Infrastructure, Institution, Urban studies, Government, Governance, Urban planning, Beijing, National Ambient Air Quality Standards, West Bengal, Mumbai, Public interest, Rural area, Government of China, Communal land, Public housing, Migrant worker, Court order, Emission standard, Legislation, Career, Environmental protection, Economic growth, Special economic zone, Eviction, Slum, Mao Zedong, Tax, Jurisdiction, Local government, Kolkata, Industrialisation, Apartment, Land development, Urban village, Pollution prevention, State government, Political party, Urban sprawl