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Access to the City : Governing Housing, Services, and Urban In/Exclusion in Amritsar and Lahore / by Helena Cermeño

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Stadt, Raum und GesellschaftPublisher: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2025Publisher: Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2025Edition: 1st ed. 2025Description: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 340 p. 51 illus., 8 illus. in color.)ISBN:
  • 9783658482282
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9783658482275 | 9783658482299 | Erscheint auch als: 9783658482275 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783658482299 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 307.76 23
DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-48228-2Online resources: Summary: Revisiting the Housing Question at the India-Pakistan border -- Living and Planning on the Edge: Unravelling Conflict and Claim-making in Peri-Urban Lahore, Pakistan -- Mitigating Pro-Poor Housing Failures: Access Theory and the Politics of Urban Governance -- Endangered Urban Commons: Lahore’s Violent Heritage Management and Prospects for Reconciliation -- Heritage of inclusion or exclusion? Contested Claims and Access to Housing in Amritsar, India -- City\scapes of Lahore: Reimagining the Urban -- Looking at the city from below: How an “access” approach and “city\scapes” contribute to the understanding of marginalization in Amritsar (India) -- Access to housing in liminalities: Beyond income-based social mix in pro-poor housing policies in Amritsar -- Access to the City: Amritsar and Lahore in comparison.Summary: This research focuses on Punjab, across the India–Pakistan border, specifically on the cities of Amritsar and Lahore. Their proximity, shared colonial past, socio-cultural ties, and entangled urban heritage offer a unique setting for comparative research on postcolonial urban governance and transformation. The book examines how governance practices shape urban dwellers’ access to housing and services in specific neighbourhoods and contribute to the (re)production of socio-spatial in/exclusion. Rather than relying on a property rights lens, it adopts and expands Access Theory, conceptualising access as the ability to derive benefits from material, institutional, and symbolic resources. This lens foregrounds governance mechanisms and power relations that enable, control, and maintain access over time. Case studies in Amritsar and Lahore engage with theoretical mergers—such as access assemblages, evolutionary governance, and city\scapes—to explore neglected dimensions of urban processes, including human/non-human interfaces and socio-material infrastructures. By unraveling contestations over access, the research traces evolving governance arrangements and dependencies. While grounded in these two cities, the findings contribute to broader debates on postcolonial and South(east)ern urbanism, especially in border regions. About the author Helena Cermeño is an architect, urban planner, and researcher exploring governance and urban (in)justice through the lenses of housing, infrastructure, and heritage.PPN: PPN: 1929466072Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SZR | ZDB-2-SNO
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