Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India The Politics of Spatial Restructur
Through the analysis of Indian metropolises, this volume critiques the reality of “entrepreneurial governance” that has emerged as a major urban development practice in cities of the global south. In neoliberal India, the use of management rhetoric in urb
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Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India The Politics of Spatial Restructuring and Local Contestation
Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India
Kanekanti Chandrashekar Smitha Editor
Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India The Politics of Spatial Restructuring and Local Contestation
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Editor Kanekanti Chandrashekar Smitha Centre for Research in Urban Affairs Institute for Social and Economic Change Bengaluru, Karnataka India
ISBN 978-981-10-2235-7 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2236-4
ISBN 978-981-10-2236-4
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To my beloved parents and sweet sister
Foreword
When Smitha approached me in 2014 for a possible chapter for her book on entrepreneurial urbanism, I had gently refused, given I didn’t have the time or the aptitude for a book of this nature. Now, looking at the way in which this manuscript has evolved, I wish I had contributed. The reason is that Smitha has launched upon a very ambitious, but quite timely and highly policy relevant area for the research. In 1989, Peter Eisinger published a book on the rise of the entrepreneurial state (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press), taking the case of state and local economic development policy in the USA, which highlighted the evolution of state and local government initiatives in that country to influence the market/private sector as it related to those policies. This ‘rise’ marked a sea change from governments’ conventionally small role in the affairs of private industry that had characterized the first half of the twentieth century, at least as far as the USA was concerned. In his book, Eisinger also showed that certain state governments in the USA, rather than depending solely on supply-side strategies such as tax breaks and other ince
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