This book addresses the urban and peri-urban spaces in India within a single frame. The reasoning is that while the former is studied for its transformation towards more value addition in terms of power and neoliberal economic viabilities, the latter is the land of visible transformation of the built environment. It acquaints readers with how the processes of circulation of migrant labour, the shift in occupations of landowning groups, and the residential cohabitation of diverse social groups contribute to re-scripting social relations, green spaces, and the forging of new subjectivities. The chapters of the book speak of the need to create sustainable cities for uncertain futures, with a quest to reverse global climate change and make an effort to halt urbanization at the cost of the natural ecosystem, all of which have become more urgent in the post-pandemic years. The book addresses different aspects of the evolutionary urban and peri-urban spaces in India amidst the conflict of the environmental and social sustainability agendas with the neo-liberal ascendancy. The integration of urban and peri-urban areas with emerging political and economic equations and the involvement of multiple disciplines to work in tandem for a deep insight into the complex phenomena incorporating diverse actors validate the need for such a volume.

This edited volume seeks to record how all these stakeholdersstate agencies, political leaders, businessmen, workers, investors, households, builders, real estate intermediaries, business owners, migrants, and many more with their varying capacities to influence outcomes on the groundinteract with one another. It also shows how multiple power relationships are calibrated and recalibrated to produce urban and peri-urban spaces in diverse ways in many parts of India.

Explores the vibrant urban and peri-urban spaces of India through a political-economic lens Inspects the space that catalyses inclusion and innovation while being vulnerable to multifaceted challenges Assesses the policies and planning mechanisms for resilience and sustainable development

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The Dynamic Urban and Peri-Urban Spaces in India and the Political Economy Lens: An Introduction.- Evolution of Urban Policy and Unconventional Methods of Governance in India: Exploring Neoliberalization's Effect.- Muddling Through Waste: Self Governance and Collective Action in the Wastewater Commons.- Human Migration and Cultural Acclimatization: Indian Urban Scenario.- Green Sustainable Resilience and their Role in Urban Land Use.- Establishing Empowered City Governments in India: Institutional Approaches and Lessons from Three Decades of the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act.- Impact of Urbanisation and Economic Growth on Environmental Quality in Metropolitan Cities in India.- Navigating Locomotion and Form-shifting Technologies in Age-Friendly Smart Cityscapes: West Bengal in Focus.- Hill Stations and Colonial Urbanism: Understanding the Landscape of Darjeeling (1835-1947).- Geographical Insights into Diabetes among Urban and Rural Women in India: Exploring NFHS-4 and NFHS-5 Database.- Local Motor Cart (LMC) in Peri-Urban India: Political Economy of Unorganized Transport.- Urbanization and Environment: A Comparative Analysis of Delhi and Kolkata.- Digital Divides in Education in Urban, Peri-Urban, and Rural Areas in India: Coochbehar, A Backward District of West Bengal in Perspective.