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Expanding the ‘Room for Manoeuvre’: Community-Led Finance in Mumbai, India

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The City in Urban Poverty

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Abstract

Urban planning in cities of the Global South does not have a good track record in addressing urban poverty. Infused with colonially inherited planning systems, at best, planning has often been associated with lack of recognition of poor informal areas of the city; at worst, with the eviction of poor households and/or their livelihoods. At the same time, urban planning has often been reticent in challenging powerful actors in the city who are benefiting unequally from its development, creating a system of city management that is neither transparent nor accountable, and contributing to the reproduction of socio-spatial urban inequalities. This tendency is even more pronounced in a neo-liberal age when the aims of planning have been reframed as supporting the market and enhancing the vision of the ‘competitive city’.

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Levy, C. (2015). Expanding the ‘Room for Manoeuvre’: Community-Led Finance in Mumbai, India. In: The City in Urban Poverty. EADI Global Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137367433_8

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