... This essay extends and applies Sylvia Wynter’s meta-cartography of Man and les damnés de la terre/the wretched of the earth by looking towards contemporary debates over the urban. The research draws attention to debates in the fields of urban redevelopment and renewal in order to interrogate...

... temporality world-class city redevelopment ...

... slum redevelopment criminalization informal illegal ...

... (or attempt to make) water available to the rapidly changing space of the city despite the materialities of the pipes. temporality world-class city redevelopment ...

.... The chapter follows the material, ideological, and legal transformation of a municipal housing colony, Shivajinagar-Bainganwadi, into a slum that could be surveyed for redevelopment. The reimagining of Shivajinagar-Bainganwadi as a slum was itself the result of the politically mediated deterioration...