Gifted by Achin Chakraborty

Includes references.

1 Indian Urban Trajectories: Addressing ‘Sustainability’ across
Micro-political Settings .................................... 1
Jenia Mukherjee
2 Towards Sustainable Cities in India ......................... 23
Annapurna Shaw
Part I Governing Investments and Infrastructures
3 Structural Limits to Equitable Urbanization................... 41
Achin Chakraborty
4 Alternative Provision of Tenure Security and Rights to the Urban
Poor: A Case Study from Ahmedabad ....................... 53
Atanu Chatterjee
5 State, Governance and Urban Poor: Insights from
Visakhapatnam City ...................................... 79
Debapriya Ganguly
6 Performing Governance in Urban Patna ...................... 95
Sheema Fatima
7 Sustainability of Urban Fringe Development and Management in
NCT-Delhi: A Case Study.................................. 109
Ramakrishna Nallathiga, Suhani Taneja, Anusha Gupta
and Bitul Gangal
Part II Managing Wastes and Wetlands
8 Evaluating Municipal Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities:
A Comparative Assessment of Three Metros in South India ...... 137
Shaik Sajith and Avinash Y. Kumar
xi
9 Electronic Waste in Urban India: A Major Sustainability
Challenge ............................................... 161
Anwesha Borthakur
10 How Expensive is the Decay of East Kolkata Wetlands? An
Estimation of Opportunity Cost for Kolkata................... 181
Debanjana Dey and Sarmila Banerjee
11 Urban Ecologies in Transition: Contestations around Waste in
Mumbai ................................................ 207
Sneha Sharma and D. Parthasarathy
Part III Exploring Ecologies and Environmentalisms
12 Sustainability or (Sustain)ability? Environmentalism and Shades
of Power in a Metropolis .................................. 227
Amit Jain
13 Gentrification and Rising Urban Aspirations in the Inner City:
Redefining Urbanism in Mumbai ............................ 239
Dwiparna Chatterjee and D. Parthasarathy
14 Communities in a ‘Protected’ Urban Space and Conservation
Politics in Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park ............. 257
Amrita Sen and Sarmistha Pattanaik
15 Urban at the Edges: Mumbai’s Coastline Urbanisms............ 279
Hemantkumar A. Chouhan, D. Parthasarathy and Sarmistha Pattanaik
16 Contested Urban Waterscape of Udaipur ..................... 295
Neha Singh, D. Parthasarathy and N.C. Naray