Urban India: Understanding the Maximum City
Feature essays from local and international experts paired with extensive research on the social, economic and physical contours of the four largest metropolitan regions in India – Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Delhi – document and analyse the region’s major urban trends. A detailed focus on Mumbai brings its urban growth into perspective with global trends to reframe how one of India’s largest and most dynamic cities is understood.
Publication date: November 2007
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INDIA'S URBAN SHIFT
Deyan Sudjic
THE FUTURE OF INDIAN CITIES
Amitabh Kundu
DEMOCRACY IN URBAN INDIA
K.C. Sivaramakrishnan
URBAN TRANSPORT IN INDIAN CITIES
Geetam Tiwari
THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Nicholas Stern
CITIES AND CITY REGIONS IN TODAY’S GLOBAL AGE
Saskia Sassen
A ‘RULE OF LAW’ FOR CITIES
Gerald Frug
Focus on Mumbai
UNCOVERING THE MYTH OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT
S. Parasuraman
A MATTER OF PEOPLE
Darryl D'Monte
MAXIMUM CITY
Suketu Mehta
MUMBAI: THE COMPACT MEGA CITY
Philipp Rode
REMAKING MUMBAI
Rahul Mehrotra