Urbanization and Housing English 2017

Under changing social conditions, not only has the urban space become subject to a critical contest for housing, but rural land is also being transformed into urban space for more 'productive' use. But is this intense drive to remake the cities ruining the promise of an 'inclusive city'? Aggressive efforts towards the commodification of rural land is often disastrous for thousands of people, and the vulnerability of the consumers to fraudulent practices in the urban housing market has become widespread, with great implications for consumer justice. Urbanization and Housing aims at understanding the complex process of urbanization that has developed in a globalizing Indian society due to the transformative initiatives of the state with respect to the urbanization-driven crisis of 'affordable housing.' [Subject: Development Studies, South Asian Studies, Sociology, Urban Studies]