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Indian urbanism and the terrain of the law
In the controversies around, and legal and political challenges to, the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor being constructed by Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises, one can see signs of a new historical stage and urban form. Court judgments between 1997 and 2006 relating to land acquisi...
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| 100 | |a Nair, Janaki | ||
| 245 | |a Indian urbanism and the terrain of the law |c Nair, Janaki. | ||
| 260 | |c 2015 | ||
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| 520 | |a In the controversies around, and legal and political challenges to, the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor being constructed by Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises, one can see signs of a new historical stage and urban form. Court judgments between 1997 and 2006 relating to land acquisition for infrastructure projects such as NICE tell us about the new urban form, which the courts feel obliged to bring into being, displaying a proselytising zeal in promoting corridor urbanism. The corridor project has seized hold of the planning, bureaucratic, and judicial imagination in ways that signal a consensus about the imperatives of rapid capitalist growth, uncontaminated by any early postcolonial notions of developmentalist growth. | ||
| 773 | |a Economic and Political Weekly |d Sep 05 | ||
| 999 | |c 43988 |d 43988 | ||