{"id":249,"date":"2018-11-11T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T10:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.sites.abudhabi.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/?p=249"},"modified":"2024-01-16T14:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T14:26:19","slug":"george-jose-jyoti-dalal-school-of-liberal-studies-presents-his-current-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/globalasiainitiative\/george-jose-jyoti-dalal-school-of-liberal-studies-presents-his-current-research\/","title":{"rendered":"George Jose (Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Studies) presents his current research"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Once and Future City-Center: Urban Aspirations in Mumbai\u2019s Periphery<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Nalasopara is one of the fastest growing neighbourhoods in one of the fastest growing municipalities in India today.\u00a0 This peri-urban area in the northwestern periphery of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) is a key district of the recently inaugurated Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC). The new Vasai-Virar City is, in fact, \u2018old\u2019.\u00a0 This region in north Konkan, on the western coast of India, less than fifty miles north of the city of Mumbai, is the site of two historic port cities, Sopara (today, Nalasopara) and Bassein (today, Vasai).\u00a0 Writing about this city of over a million people sometime in the later decades of 1 CE, the anonymous author of the\u00a0<\/span>Periplus Erythraei Maris<\/em>\u00a0refers to Sopara as \u2018a bustling port\u00a0city\u00a0of many hundreds of people and the capital of the Konkan between 500 BCE and 1100 CE.\u2019<\/p>\n

Until recently, revenue records, following colonial bookkeeping practice, categorized this region as pre-dominantly agricultural in character.\u00a0 In the past couple of decades, however, Nalasopara developed a reputation for being the least expensive \u2018urban\u2019 real estate destination in the MMR.\u00a0 The Development Authority\u2019s Draft Regional Plan for MMR 2016-2036 proposes to develop Nalasopara into a \u2018Growth Centre\u2019 by 2036.\u00a0 This presentation will investigate Nalasopara\u2019s many urban pasts, and its imagined and contested future by analyzing the contrasting interests and aspirations of its constituencies.\u00a0 It will outline the processes by which the planners\u2019 imagination, the politician\u2019s ambitions, the migrant communities\u2019 anxieties, and the locals\u2019 assertions come together to undermine the state\u2019s development vision.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Held on 11 November 2018 (Sponsored by the NYUAD GAI with the generous support of the Luce Foundation).<\/span><\/p>\n

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