The morphology of the city, its spatial practices, and its urbanism are regarded as unique, so much so that a sociologist once said that it is perhaps “India’s only city”. Mumbai’s high-rises and malls, its slums and shanties, its pavement dwellers and SoBo2 elites and its “mysterious middle classes”3 have been celebrated and derided in movies, in literature and the media, and in everyday conversations. He popular imagination of Mumbai/Bombay/Bambai1 is as much about its built environment as about its people, what they do, their collective and individual habits, and their aspirations. The comments of an anonymous reviewer are gratefully acknowledged.ĭ Parthasarathy is at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Part of the field research was also done during a survey for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority for the rehabilitation of flood victims in 2006-07. The research was carried out as part of a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, in 2008-09. This is a revised and expanded version of a paper presented at the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons in January 2011 at Hyderabad. From this perspective, this enquiry seeks not only to better understand and explain the processes that are forcing out the city’s less privileged from its commons, but also imagine how a more inclusive future could be achieved. If you have any concerns whatsoever, please, let Miss Snotface Lahdedah know, so she can do everything she can to make things right, before leaving negative reviews.REVIEW OF URBAN AFFAIRS Hunters, Gatherers and Foragers in a Metropolis:Ĭommonising the Private and Public in Mumbaiĭ Parthasarathy Mumbai is in reality a city of places that are not a part of the current set of fantasies that rule the minds of urban planners but are yet integrally linked to capitalist processes, to urban practices of place-making and to urbanism itself. This treasure should take between 12-24 days to arrive, but on the rare occasion some items get held up in transit.
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