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ID128525
Title ProperHighway urbanization and land conflicts
Other Title Informationthe challenges to decentralization in India
LanguageENG
AuthorBalakrishnan, Sai
Publication2013.
Summary / Abstract (Note)Much of the urban growth in developing countries is taking place along infrastructure corridors that connect cities. The villages along these corridors are frenzied and contested sites for the consolidation and conversion of agricultural lands for urban uses. The scale of changes along these corridors is larger than the political jurisdiction of local governments, and new regional institutions are emerging to manage land consolidations at this corridor scale. This article compares two inter-urban highways in India and the issue image_86_4_Hwy Urbanization - Balakrishnanhybrid regional institutions that manage them: the Bangalore- Mysore corridor, regulated by parastatals, and the Pune-Nashik corridor, by cooperatives. It traces the emergence of parastatals and cooperatives to the turn of the twentieth century, the ways in which these old institutions are being reworked to respond to the contemporary challenges of highway urbanization, and the winners and losers under these new institutional arrangements. I use the term "negotiated decentralization" to more accurately capture the back-and-forth negotiations between local, regional and state-level actors that leads to context-specific regional institutions like the parastatals and cooperatives
`In' analytical NotePacific Affairs Vol.86, No.4; December 2013: p.785-812
Journal SourcePacific Affairs Vol.86, No.4; December 2013: p.785-812
Key WordsHighway Urbanization ;  Land Conversion ;  Land Conflicts ;  Cooperatives ;  Parastatals ;  Regional Institutions ;  Urban Development ;  Economic Development ;  Contemporary Challenges ;  Bangalore- Mysore Corridor ;  Political Jurisdiction