Housing in Smart City—The Emperor has No Clothes

Darshini Mahadevia ()
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Darshini Mahadevia: Ahmedabad University

Chapter Chapter 11 in Accessible Housing for South Asia, 2022, pp 203-223 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The idea of ‘smart citiesSmart City’ is being implemented in IndiaIndia through Smart CitiesSmart City Mission (SCM). This paper, taking an example of AhmedabadAhmedabad, critically assesses as to whether smart citySmart City, as conceptualised in global literature, would be achieved amidst lack of necessary data and landLand governance system necessary for planned city development on one hand and state support to rentRent-seeking and speculative real estate interests on the other. The case study is of AhmedabadAhmedabad city, declared a smart citySmart City, essentially has only a small pocket of 2 km2 of area under the SCM, wherein the In-Situ SlumSlum Redevelopment (ISSR) component of the Prime Minister’s Awaas Yojana (PMAY) is being implemented. This paper, therefore, presents the dynamics of smart citiesSmart City in IndiaIndia, and how this global idea, is being implemented on one hand and how the PMAY’s ISSR component is being implemented on the other.

Keywords: Smart cities; Slum redevelopment; Land tenure; Ahmedabad; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88881-7_11

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