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Producing New India: periodising India’s infrastructure-led extended urbanisation

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: New highway corridors are being implanted at various scales—local, metropolitan, regional, and interregional—often bypassing existing routes and opening new speculative frontiers for urban land markets. This article periodises the different stages of highway construction in India during the neo-liberal era. It fi nds how this state-led infrastructure expansion fosters new territorial imaginaries of nationhood, citizenship, and environmentalism. As infrastructure-led urbanisation continues to remain a dominant trend, this article calls for increased attention to the socio-spatial differentiation, struggles and environmental impacts arising from this highway-driven fossil urbanism.

Source: Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)

DOI: 10.5167/uzh-267794

Author: Bathla, Nitin

Language: English

Topic: Urban Planning and Governance

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6966776014

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