...World-Class Cities, World-Class Waste ...

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

... While the disjuncture between the city’s built form and its water pipes seems to suggest that the world-class city would also be a dry city, this is not the case; the city’s new malls, gated communities, shimmering office towers, and glittering hotels do, generally speaking, get water...

... The new arenas of contestation that Mumbai’s water infrastructures animate reveal the illusory and precarious nature of the project to remake Mumbai as a world-class city. These dynamics, described as “pipe politics,” gesture instead toward the highly contested futures of the actually existing...

... and criminalization of its water infrastructure in the context of liberalization-era policy shifts, which position the unplanned, illegal and informal slum as the self-evident conceptual counterpoint to the planned, formal, world-class city. Shivajinagar-Bainganwadi’s story reveals the deeply political and highly...

... The political project to transform Mumbai into an investment-friendly world-class city used market mechanisms to reconfigure the city’s built spaces and upgrade its infrastructures. “The market” presented a utopian solution to long-standing and intractable political struggles over land—struggles...

... in the city. While the project to transform Mumbai into a world-class city has presided over hydraulic chaos, the disembedding and reconfiguring of infrastructural knowledge has rescaled political authority in the city. power spectacle authority performance ...

... the origins and implications of contemporary patterns of urban infrastructural connectivity and disconnection. In Mumbai a broad political coalition of actors, united by the imperative to transform Mumbai into a world-class city, joined hands to put market logic to work in pursuit of Mumbai’s makeover...