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Greenfield Development as Tabula Rasa. Rescaling, Speculation and Governance on India's Urban Frontier

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Greenfield urban development can be seen as an enduring idiom of politics in India, with state initiative from precolonial times to the present day responsible for establishing iconic capital cities such as Jaipur, Kolkata, or Chandigarh. However, a renewed interest in building new cities, variously labelled “smart,” “green” or “integrated,” is now accompanied by an increasing tendency to instrumentalise the urban in pursuit of economic growth and a competitive drive to attract global financial flows. Situated at the intersection of several recent literatures from speculative urbanism to theorisations of rescaling and bypass, the papers in this special issue foreground the struggles over land that animate debates about these greenfield sites while looking beyond these concerns to question the urban futures they presage. Synthesising the insights from these papers, this essay flags critical issues for the politics of urban development and sketches pathways for future research.
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Loraine Kennedy, Ashima Sood. Greenfield Development as Tabula Rasa. Rescaling, Speculation and Governance on India's Urban Frontier. Economic and political weekly, 2016. ⟨halshs-02001520⟩
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