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Urban ARC Conference Proceedings Urban ARC IIHS Annual Research Conference City and the Region Conference Proceedings 2019 DESIGN & LAYOUT Vikrant M S, Nawaz Khan, IIHS Design Team COPY EDITING AND REFERENCE SUPPORT Mandara Vishwanath, IIHS Word Lab Tanvi Bhatikar, IIHS Academics and Research Shalini B G, IIHS Library Team B. Preedip Balaji, IIHS Library Team Vinay M S, IIHS Library Team Anitha K V, IIHS Library Team Amrutraj R Benahal, IIHS Library Team Raja P, IIHS Library Team Pooja Uniyal, IIHS Library Team This work is available under the following licence: b. Translation: Where a translation of this work has All the content created by the author(s) for the purpose of the been created by a third party, prior written permission Conference Proceedings: Urban ARC 2019, City and the Region is must be obtained from IIHS. Attribution to IIHS shall be accompanied by the following disclaimer: copyrighted. 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(2018). Governing the periphery of the production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever Gauteng City-Region, South Africa, Urban ARC City and the may be the mode or form of its expression including digital form, Region, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, 10 January. Bengaluru: Indian Institute for Human Settlements such as a book, pamphlet and other writing; a work of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving or lithography; a Conference Proceedings: Urban ARC City and the Region 2019, photographic work to which are assimilated works expressed by a Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India, 22-02- process analogous to photography; a work of applied art; an 2019 illustration, map, plan, sketch or three- dimensional work relative to geography, topography, architecture or science; a performance; a f. 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City and the Region Scholarship on the relationship between cities and their surrounding regions has a long history, dating back at least to MacKinner’s conceptualisation of London as a city-region in 1902. Since then, much research has been dedicated to understanding the linkages which exist between the two. Over time, these conceptualisations have been challenged, reimagined, and redrawn, particularly as studies of cities have extended to the global South. In India, cyclical flow of rural residents to and from urban areas for work has been recognised, reframing questions of urban housing, employment, social security, residency, and citizen rights. Migration to cities allows for strong links to persist with certain regions, with new migrants utilising networks of families and friends to establish themselves in cities. Additionally, the spatial organisation of economies around nodes, originally emerging within economic plans, is now acknowledged by geographers, via ideas of hierarchic regional and locational systems. The third edition of Urban ARC sought to examine and unpack themes around the city and region by exploring a wide-range of intersections – sectoral, disciplinary, methodological and geographic. The conference was held from 10 to 12 January 2019 at the IIHS Bengaluru City Campus. We received 245 applications from scholars and practitioners across leading local and global universities, out of which, 33 individual papers and 3 panel submissions were selected for the conference. These Conference Proceedings feature the extended abstracts submitted by the selected participants for Urban ARC 2019. iii Add the Urban ARC schedule which was added to the collateral (notebook) iv v vi vii Table of Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................... iii Schedule ................................................................................................................................................................. iv Panel 1: Governing the Urban ......................................................................................................................... 11 Community governance of urban wetlands .................................................................................................... 12 Governing the periphery of the Gauteng City-Region, South Africa ............................................................. 19 The exceptional millennial city? An understanding of the planning and governance of Gurugram ........ 23 Panel 2: Exploring social identity and culture: Perspectives from Delhi and Kolkata .............................. 29 Exploring identity and space through the study of housing rental market in Delhi .................................. 30 Fear, activism and formation of counter-urban consciousness: Experiencing Delhi from the margins, a case of Kathputli Colony .................................................................................................................................... 34 Menus matter: Examining class and Bengali cuisine culture through restaurant menus in Kolkata ...... 39 Panel 3: Infrastructure and the urban region ............................................................................................... 45 Challenging inert flows between the city and the region: The canals and the brick kilns of Gurugram and Sonepat ................................................................................................................................................................ 46 Citizenship at the margins: Exploring slum rehabilitation in an urban fishermen settlement in Kerala . 49 Lost opportunities: A case study of Khushkhera-Neemrana-Bhiwadi investment region ........................ 53 The rescaling of the State in the Dholera Smart City ..................................................................................... 58 Panel 4: Urban systems and services ............................................................................................................. 65 Delivery of water and sanitation public services under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) at New Delhi railway station ........................................................................................................................................... 66 Poverty and transport accessibility in Bengaluru: The need for
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