About the Book: Understanding Indias New Approach to Spatial Planning and
Development: A Salient Shift?
Is there a political and economic struggle when it comes to spatial development
and planning of Indias urban and rural landscapes? This book brings together the
ongoing shift in Indias approach to spatial planning and development in line
with changes in the countrys polity. Taking the regime change in the early 1990s
as a point of departure, it focuses on transformations in the distinct, but
interrelated, domains of infrastructure finance and development, local spatial
planning practice, and on-the-ground empirical outcomes. Instead of covering
large cities-such as Kolkata, Mumbai, and Delhi-that dominate the