Networks of Urbanization in Two Indian Cities

Abstract

Networks of urbanization managing relations and thus service provision between inhabitants and the local state differ in means and modes across different socio-economic collectivities and differently urbanized spaces. This issue is often overlooked in discussions about governance, citizen participation and urban development in Indian cities. First, the article outlines an approach for studying the city as a conjecture of various social processes facilitated by various networks and a sociology of structural and cultural holes. Then the article outlines and compares the structure and practices of three different networks of urbanization in Kalyan–Dombivli and Mira–Bhayandar: clientelist, rent-seeking, and cor-porate. These networks render the categorization of these cities as either ‘bourgeois’, ‘subaltern’, or ‘inclusive’ problematic.

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