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Book Review: Smitha Kanekanti Chandrashekar (Ed.), Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India: The Politics of Spatial Restructuring and Local Contestation

Book Review: Smitha Kanekanti Chandrashekar (Ed.), Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India: The... 110 Book Reviews take cognisance of this subaltern growth to make urban planning more inclusive. Through its exhaustive introduction, macroeconomic studies and field-based analysis of specific locations, the book manages to make a strong case for reshaping academic approaches to the study of small towns in India. Khaliq Parkar Assistant Professor (Political Science) Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India E-mail: khaliq.parkar@ssla.edu.in Smitha Kanekanti Chandrashekar (Ed.), Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India: The Politics of Spatial Restructuring and Local Contestation (Singapore: Springer), 2017. 220 pp. (ISBN: 978-981-10-2235-7). DOi: 10.1177/0975425317748537 This is a timely book, attempting to document, in the context of India, the gradual shift from a mana- gerial to an entrepreneurial approach in urban management and governance. While the broad outlines of such a shift would bear similarities to what has happened in other parts of the world, namely, a shift in city government’s preoccupation with the provision of services and other facilities to urban resi- dents to a more commercial and competitive local government focused on economic growth, India’s specificities anchored in its regional and cultural complexity and its stark inequalities require separate treatment. Smitha’s edited book, comprised of 10 chapters, attempts to fulfil this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environment and Urbanization ASIA SAGE

Book Review: Smitha Kanekanti Chandrashekar (Ed.), Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India: The Politics of Spatial Restructuring and Local Contestation

Shaw, Annapurna
Environment and Urbanization ASIA , Volume 9 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2018
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110 Book Reviews take cognisance of this subaltern growth to make urban planning more inclusive. Through its exhaustive introduction, macroeconomic studies and field-based analysis of specific locations, the book manages to make a strong case for reshaping academic approaches to the study of small towns in India. Khaliq Parkar Assistant Professor (Political Science) Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India E-mail: khaliq.parkar@ssla.edu.in Smitha Kanekanti Chandrashekar (Ed.), Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India: The Politics of Spatial Restructuring and Local Contestation (Singapore: Springer), 2017. 220 pp. (ISBN: 978-981-10-2235-7). DOi: 10.1177/0975425317748537 This is a timely book, attempting to document, in the context of India, the gradual shift from a mana- gerial to an entrepreneurial approach in urban management and governance. While the broad outlines of such a shift would bear similarities to what has happened in other parts of the world, namely, a shift in city government’s preoccupation with the provision of services and other facilities to urban resi- dents to a more commercial and competitive local government focused on economic growth, India’s specificities anchored in its regional and cultural complexity and its stark inequalities require separate treatment. Smitha’s edited book, comprised of 10 chapters, attempts to fulfil this

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Published: Mar 1, 2018

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