Assorted City

Equity, Justice and Politics in Urban Services Delivery

Suptendu P. Biswas Atlantic Publishers Politics English Hardcover 9788126938728

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A rare piece of research on the game of urban services delivery in an Indian metropolis.

Independent India envisioned the idea of democracy with equality and liberty as its basic tenets. To accomplish this idea, planning was adopted as the policy to take the new nation forward. Assorted City argues that planning has inherent traits of the multiple techniques of governmentality resulting in the politics of distribution which, with its unpredictable consequences, supersedes the policy of distribution. Based on an empirical study of water supply in Delhi and grounded in theory, this book makes an original reading of the city that is highly relevant for the study of contemporary urbanism. Moreover, such observations of the city are made through the lens of urban services delivery, which is unique in itself. Assorted City makes an important contribution to urban planning discourses in India by offering an in-depth conceptual and theoretical insight to address theory-practice dichotomy. A unique work on urban services delivery in an Indian city, it narrates how equity and justice are manipulated in the process. It captures generic urban processes in three ways: the questions it raises about planning, the multifaceted methodological perspective it introduces, and the commitment it underlines toward social justice and equity in a democracy.

This book explores and exposes the interplay between urban existence and the politics of service delivery.

Suptendu P. Biswas is an urban theorist, who works on the overlapping fields of design & planning in areas of built environment, spatial equity, landscape urbanism, urban heritage and socio-cultural studies. An architect, urban designer and planning professional, he has been involved in consultancy, teaching, research and writing for almost three decades. His multi-faceted works have been presented, published and exhibited in India and abroad.

A recipient of Senior Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Dr Biswas is also one of the partners of VSPB Associates, an international award-winning architecture, urban design and landscape firm in New Delhi, a visiting faculty member of post-graduate courses at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi, and one of the founder trustees of SEARCH, a Kolkata-based charitable trust working on urban sustainability and related spheres. He graduated from B.E. College (IIEST), Shibpur, and did his post-graduation and doctorate from SPA.

His first book, Assorted City (2015), was critically acclaimed and nominated among top five urban writings. He also co-edited Blue Lines of Kolkata (2017), a book on ideas and proposals about the canals of Kolkata. Dr Biswas is a keen observer of politics and urbanity and its inter-relationships.