What is it about?

Through the analysis of Indian metropolises, this volume critiques the reality of “entrepreneurial governance” that has emerged as a major urban development practice in cities of the global south.

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Why is it important?

Through diverse empirical evidence from India, particularly from the metropolises of New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai, this volume focuses on the fallout of the deployment of “entrepreneurial governance” practices at national, state and local levels.

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Written by scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, and focusing on different facets of entrepreneurial governance in Indian metropolises, this book is of interest to researchers of urban politics, public policy, urban sociology, anthropology, urban geography, planning and architecture.

Smitha Kanekanti Chandrashekar
Institute for Social and Economic Change

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This page is a summary of: Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-2236-4.
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