Urban villager : life in an Indian satellite town /Vandana Vasudevan

By:

Vandana Vasudevan

Contributor(s):

Vandana Vasudevan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi : SAGE , 2013Description: x,276 Pages ;20 cmISBN:

9788132113096

Subject(s):

Socail Sciences

DDC classification:

307.7680 VAS

Contents:

Part 1. Whose land is it anyway? -- part 2. The impact of acquisition -- part 3. New owners of an old land -- part 4. The schizophrenia of the peri-urban town -- part 5. Growth pangs of young towns.

Summary: Urban Villageris a superbly etched and finely detailed representation of the life of an 'urban villager' in a modern satellite town of India. It describes how Delhi, as a city, is growing radially, stretching its way into the rural fringes of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh that border the city to form the National Capital Region. Through the microcosm of Greater Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, the author draws a portrait of life in a semi-urban town, where billion dollar homes and villages with no sewage system share the same pin code. Some farmers sell their land and try to cope with a new found pro

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Part 1. Whose land is it anyway? --
part 2. The impact of acquisition --
part 3. New owners of an old land --
part 4. The schizophrenia of the peri-urban town --
part 5. Growth pangs of young towns.

Urban Villageris a superbly etched and finely detailed representation of the life of an 'urban villager' in a modern satellite town of India. It describes how Delhi, as a city, is growing radially, stretching its way into the rural fringes of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh that border the city to form the National Capital Region. Through the microcosm of Greater Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, the author draws a portrait of life in a semi-urban town, where billion dollar homes and villages with no sewage system share the same pin code. Some farmers sell their land and try to cope with a new found pro

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