Park Politics in a Postcolonial Indian City: Planning (and) Public Space in Bangalore

Q2 Social Sciences Built Environment Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI:10.2148/benv.48.2.169
S. Vanka
{"title":"Park Politics in a Postcolonial Indian City: Planning (and) Public Space in Bangalore","authors":"S. Vanka","doi":"10.2148/benv.48.2.169","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper highlights different facets of public space in Indian cities by examining contestations and conceptualizations of a maidan (open ground) in Bangalore. Since the early 1980s, the Post Office Ground, a master planned open space in an upperclass neighbourhood of Bangalore, was\n used as a place for exercise and recreation by local residents and visitors. Local residents contested and stopped government a empts to build quasi-public buildings on the maidan. The protracted battles for the Ground, resulting in its partial conversion to a gated park, reveal Bangalore's\n complex state–society–space dynamics where contestations and negotiations between actors of state and society compete with the master plan in shaping public space. This article concludes that the open maidan presents a more inclusive, though contentious, terrain for such contestations\n and negotiations than the gated park.","PeriodicalId":53715,"journal":{"name":"Built Environment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Built Environment","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.48.2.169","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0

Abstract

This paper highlights different facets of public space in Indian cities by examining contestations and conceptualizations of a maidan (open ground) in Bangalore. Since the early 1980s, the Post Office Ground, a master planned open space in an upperclass neighbourhood of Bangalore, was used as a place for exercise and recreation by local residents and visitors. Local residents contested and stopped government a empts to build quasi-public buildings on the maidan. The protracted battles for the Ground, resulting in its partial conversion to a gated park, reveal Bangalore's complex state–society–space dynamics where contestations and negotiations between actors of state and society compete with the master plan in shaping public space. This article concludes that the open maidan presents a more inclusive, though contentious, terrain for such contestations and negotiations than the gated park.
查看原文
分享 分享
微信好友 朋友圈 QQ好友 复制链接
本刊更多论文
印度后殖民城市的公园政治:班加罗尔的公共空间规划
本文通过研究班加罗尔的maidan(空地)的争论和概念,重点介绍了印度城市公共空间的不同方面。自20世纪80年代初以来,邮局场地是班加罗尔一个上层社区的一个总体规划开放空间,被当地居民和游客用作锻炼和娱乐的场所。当地居民反对并阻止政府在麦丹岛上建造准公共建筑。土地的长期争夺导致其部分改建为封闭公园,揭示了班加罗尔复杂的国家-社会-空间动态,国家和社会行为者之间的竞争和谈判与塑造公共空间的总体规划相竞争。这篇文章的结论是,与封闭式公园相比,开放式的麦丹为这种争论和谈判提供了一个更具包容性的、尽管有争议的地形。
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 去求助
来源期刊
Built Environment
Built Environment Social Sciences-Urban Studies
CiteScore
2.80
自引率
0.00%
发文量
29
期刊最新文献
Carceral Displacement: The Root Shock of Mass Criminalization Displacement in Place: Root Shock in the Pearse Street Community, Dublin Root Shock's Missing Appendix Using Situation Analysis for Critical Policy Studies and Beyond Root Shock as Social Discipline Marginalization and Racism in Irish Social, Asylum, and Refugee Policies 'We Couldn't Get the Big Win' A Situation Analysis of the Stress of Gentrification at Differing Points in the Process
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
现在去查看 取消
×
提示
确定
0
微信
客服QQ
Book学术公众号 扫码关注我们
反馈
×
意见反馈
请填写您的意见或建议
请填写您的手机或邮箱
已复制链接
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
×
扫码分享
扫码分享
Book学术官方微信
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术
文献互助 智能选刊 最新文献 互助须知 联系我们:info@booksci.cn
Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。
Copyright © 2023 Book学术 All rights reserved.
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号 京ICP备2023020795号-1