ABSTRACT

Zoning Practices in Urban Development We have already tried to show how the spatial reorganisation of city spaces across India provides the backdrop for the development of New Town at Rajarhat. Also the spatial reorganisation of city spaces has to be read within the larger framework of the urbanisation programmes undertaken by the Indian state. While population management has been central to state discourse and, as the other chapters in this book narrate, the history of people living in Rajarhat before it became New Town, it is also important to look into the genealogy of zoning practices in urban development carried out by the Indian state.