Public Participation in Planning in India
About this ebook
The book also argues that spaces of public participation in planning are shrinking. For example, city development plans promoted under the erstwhile JNNUM programme and several other neoliberal policy regime initiatives have reduced the quality, as well as the extent of participatory practices in planning. The end result of this is that legally mandated participatory spaces are being used by powerful interests to pursue the neoliberal agenda.
The volume is divided into three main parts. The first part deals with the theory and history of public participation and governance in planning in India, and the second presents real-life case studies related to planning at a regional level in order to describe and empirically explore some of the theoretical arguments made in the first. The third section provides analyses of selected case studies at a local level. An introduction and conclusions, along with insights for the future, provide a coherent envelope to the book.
About the author
Trained as an architect and a planner, Poonam Prakash is working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Physical Planning of the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India, where she is also Coordinator of HUDCO Chair Activities. She received her PhD from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. Her research interests are planning decisions, ethics, participatory planning and housing, with a particularly focus on low income housing.
