Urbanisation in South Asia 2012
DOI: 10.1017/9789382993087.015
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Thimphu: The City of Peace and Organic Development

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1

Citation Types

0
1
0

Year Published

2020
2020
2020
2020

Publication Types

Select...
1

Relationship

0
1

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 1 publication
(1 citation statement)
references
References 0 publications
0
1
0
Order By: Relevance
“…As the gradual entry of consumerism and accumulation ideology in Thimphu’s socio-economic practices has increased competition over control of urban resources, particularly land and real estate, this has slowly intensified the disparities in urban socio-spatial structures. Sections of the city, like Motithang, continue to retain a tag of ‘locality of the elite and affluent suburb’, while Changzamtog predominantly houses lower-income groups (Misra et al, 2013; Norbu, 2008). One can visualise a new trend of spatially-related social identities in this urban setting, a common feature of many large cities of the world, as shown for Delhi by Dupont (2004) and Haque et al (2018).…”
Section: New Social Ordering and Spatial Consciousnessmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As the gradual entry of consumerism and accumulation ideology in Thimphu’s socio-economic practices has increased competition over control of urban resources, particularly land and real estate, this has slowly intensified the disparities in urban socio-spatial structures. Sections of the city, like Motithang, continue to retain a tag of ‘locality of the elite and affluent suburb’, while Changzamtog predominantly houses lower-income groups (Misra et al, 2013; Norbu, 2008). One can visualise a new trend of spatially-related social identities in this urban setting, a common feature of many large cities of the world, as shown for Delhi by Dupont (2004) and Haque et al (2018).…”
Section: New Social Ordering and Spatial Consciousnessmentioning
confidence: 99%