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Urban growth and land-use conflicts: The case study of New Bombay
| Author: |
Shaw, Annapurna |
| Date: |
1994 |
| Periodical: |
Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars |
| Abstract: |
The objective of this study is to capture the actual process of land-use change on rural-urban fringe areas through a case study of land-use conflicts on the edge of a large metropolitan city in India. The setting for the study is the New Bombay region of Maharashtra. New Bombay is a new city being built on the eastern fringe of Greater Bombay. The study will indicate that far from being passive participants in the process of urban change, the local population--primarily small farmers actively resisted the process. Though the government's project of urban development was implemented, the resistance of the local population shaped the pace of the project and had ramifications that penetrated state-level policy making on the land compensation issue. |
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