Conceptualizing Smart City in Indian Prospective

Mehrotra, Deepti; Nagpal, Renuka; Chaturvedi, A. C.

doi:10.1049/cp.2018.1415

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“…This makes it a compelling example of an ‘embedded’ temporary intervention that conceives ‘the city as a malleable urban condition’. This is not a grand vision; rather, it speaks to what Mehrotra and Vera (2018) term a ‘grand adjustment’. Unlike the normative processes of city-making, producing ‘embedded’ temporariness can meaningfully challenge and reinterpret ‘the assumed stable nature of urban imaginaries’ (Mehrotra et al, 2017).…”

Section: Unpacking Time-bound Strategies Empiricallymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These alternative, inexpensive, informal developments could modify and reinvent themselves for years due to their inherent temporary nature. They survived on ‘local’ logic, constantly challenged modernity and the rigid regulations imposed by the state, and successfully demonstrated how temporal articulation and occupation of spaces could expand spatial limits to include formally excluded uses in dense urban conditions (Mehrotra & Vera, 2018). However, the formal planning discourse in India had mostly shown a tendency to ignore and reject (or even criminalise) such alternative, time-bound, place-making practices, labelling them as exceptions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They showcase diverse art themes and occupy every imaginable open space and a fair number of unimaginable ones. We will critically look at one of these recurrent pop-up spaces located in Ultadanga, Kolkata and its fabrication process (hosted in 2012) to demonstrate how marginalised areas with scarce everyday spaces can use time–space planning to create alternative conditions ‘that are not just made for people, but instances in which urban guidelines are appropriated as open templates to be developed, transformed and materialised by users’ (Mehrotra & Vera, 2018). Scottish Cemetery Urban-regeneration Initiative in Park Street, Kolkata: Since 2014, Untitled Research Studio (URS) has been working on a public space preservation programme that aligns with the concept of time–space planning.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Planning Temporariness: Unpacking Time–Space Planning and Its Socially Just Applications in and Around Kolkata

Chatterjee,

Khanna

2023

Urbanisation

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The growing uncertainties affecting Indian cities, both prior to COVID-19 and in a post-pandemic context, are not only changing the everyday needs of its citizens but also challenging mainstream planning, in envisioning urban futures and demanding new planning interventions and processes that are affordable and flexible, and yield equitable, long-lasting outcomes. This demands adoption of an alternative time–space approach in planning that aligns with Henri Lefebvre’s idea of time being interconnected with space. Consequently, it prompts both formal and informal actors to perceive the city through the ‘prism of the temporary’, a fundamental concept employed by Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams in their analysis of cities in the global South. Here, planning does not discriminate between ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ interventions. Rather, the ‘hybrid’ initiatives are threaded deliberately into the temporal layers of the city and, therefore, allow both formal and informal actors to collaborate in ‘strange’ ways and curate socially just time-bound responses that cope with a range of socio-economical challenges. To elaborate this further, the article adopts a case-study approach and critically examines a few temporary-use practices through various actors and their roles, types of spatial and institutional experiments and their contributions towards just developments in and around Kolkata. The study does not intend to replace long-term macro-spatial interventions with short-term micro-spatial practices. Rather it highlights those situations where formal urban planning fails to address the urban quandaries, and, therefore, planning ‘temporariness’ allows people and planners to explore appropriate possibilities to ‘improvise’ urban lives in India.

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