Codes of Contention: Building Regulations in Colonial Bombay, 1870‐1912

Issar, Sukriti

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“…1 In the colonial period, building regulations focused on public health. The idea was that tall buildings blocked light and air, and crammed too many people into small spaces (Issar, 2017). The resultant overcrowding created the conditions for epidemics and ill health.…”

Section: The Colonial Period: Heights and Rightsmentioning

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The financialisation of floor space, Mumbai 1880–2015

Issar

2022

Urban Studies

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This paper traces the financialisation of policy instruments regulating floor space, namely, building height restrictions in Mumbai from 1880 to 2015. It describes and explains the shift from prescriptive regulation to hybrid market-based incentive. Drawing on original archival research and interviews with 80 policy experts, findings show that height restrictions shifted from ad hoc rules, to prescribed heights, to floor space index, and finally to market-based air rights. Paradoxically, the local state has used financialised floor space as an incentive to achieve social goals such as slum redevelopment, while the policy remains controversial and beset by conflict. The state has played a key role in financialising floor space, in the process creating a hybrid instrument with multiple constituencies. The conclusion explores how a history of building regulations can advance comparative urbanism.

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The financialisation of floor space, Mumbai 1880–2015

Issar

2022

Urban Studies

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Real Estate and Global Urban History

Yates

2021

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This is the text of the 2013 Ely Lecture presented at the American Economics Association convention in San Diego. I am grateful to Yueran Ma, Charles Nathanson and especially Kristina Tobio for extraordinary research assistance. Joseph Gyourko and Jose Scheinkman provided helpful comments. The Taubman Center for State and Local Government provided helpful financial support. The Taubman Center for State and Local Government provided helpful financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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Interrogating the origins of informal urbanisation: A socio-historical analysis from Paris and Madrid (1850s–1970s)

Manzano Gómez

2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Current perspectives on informal housing (particularly, the illegal development of precarious, self-produced housing areas) associate it with state regulations. However, scholars have yet to link informal housing and the socio-historical regulations that gave rise to the birth of urban planning at the beginning of the 20th century. This article draws on archival and historiographical research to discuss the juridical construction of informal urbanisation in two capital cities at the core of the world-system, Paris and Madrid. In both cities, shantytowns were legally developed from at least the 19th century. However, such spatial production was outlawed (without addressing the root causes) from the first decades of the 20th century. Thus, precarious housing became informal housing as we know it today, giving rise to comparable but differentiated patterns of legal and extra-legal shacks construction, commercialisation and control (much like those generally associated with the global south). This article traces the long-durée and transnational nature of the informalisation of self-produced housing during the first half of the 20th century. Housing tenure conditions and shelter rights were weakened not only in Europe but also in other areas under its political and cultural influence. European urban policies, developed during the first half of the 20th century, may have induced dynamics of informal spatial production at a global scale.

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Codes of Contention: Building Regulations in Colonial Bombay, 1870‐1912

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

The financialisation of floor space, Mumbai 1880–2015

The financialisation of floor space, Mumbai 1880–2015

Real Estate and Global Urban History

Interrogating the origins of informal urbanisation: A socio-historical analysis from Paris and Madrid (1850s–1970s)

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