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Author Vasudevan, Vandana

Title Urban villager : life in an Indian satellite town / Vandana Vasudevan
Published New Delhi : SAGE, [2013]

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Contents Part 1. Whose land is it anyway? -- part 2. The impact of acquisition -- part 3. New owners of an old land -- part 4. The schizophrenia of the peri-urban town -- part 5. Growth pangs of young towns
Summary Urban Villageris a superbly etched and finely detailed representation of the life of an 'urban villager' in a modern satellite town of India. It describes how Delhi, as a city, is growing radially, stretching its way into the rural fringes of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh that border the city to form the National Capital Region. Through the microcosm of Greater Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, the author draws a portrait of life in a semi-urban town, where billion dollar homes and villages with no sewage system share the same pin code. Some farmers sell their land and try to cope with a new found pro
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Subject New towns -- India -- Noida
Urbanization -- India -- Noida
Country life -- India -- Noida
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Country life
New towns
Urbanization
SUBJECT Noida (India) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99024441
Subject India -- Noida
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9788132117834
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1306154073
9781306154079
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9789353880897
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