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This chapter explores the perception versus reality of mega townships in India. The projections of these townships are desperate plights to create the next ‘world city’, house India’s exponential growth and rid the stifling chaos. The reality of this ambitious exclusive nature of perfectly polished projections, which blatantly disregard the Indian context and socio-economics if projected forward, whilst in the hands of a wealthy minority, seems to steer these projects towards an inevitable failure.
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Petros, K. (2016). Global Imaginations: Projection versus Reality in Indian Megaprojects. In: Tiwari, P. (eds) The Towers of New Capital: Mega Townships in India. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137586261_12
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