Gated Luxury Condominiums in India - A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans

Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans critically examines gated luxury condominiums in contemporary India, exploring their role in shaping elite power and identity within the framework of neoliberalism.

List of contents

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Verticality and prestige: bungalows to gated luxury condominiums
PART I: Conception
1. The allure of exclusivity: imagery, investment and identity
2. Liminal luxury: identity and spatial constructs
3. Dwellings and social prestige - vernacular, colonial, postcolonial India
PART II: Occupation - Case studies from Mumbai and Pune
4. The new cosmopolitans - modern domesticity
5. Old discriminations, new spatial mechanisms: the spectacle of consumption
PART III: Evolution
6. From global to neocolonial? Progression of type
7. Beyond the Gates: unpacking social mobility and spatial politics
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Dhara Patel is an architect and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Urban and Spatial Sociology, Institute of Sociology, TU Darmstadt, Germany. Her research focuses on the intersection of architecture, urban studies and sociology, with a particular emphasis on housing and socio-spatial dynamics. She holds a PhD in Architecture Building and Planning from the University of Melbourne. Her scholarly pursuits delve into the transformative impacts of globalisation on living spaces, the intricacies of postcolonial urbanism and the material manifestations of culture in the built environment.

Summary

Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans critically examines gated luxury condominiums in contemporary India, exploring their role in shaping elite power and identity within the framework of neoliberalism.

Product details

• Authors: Dhara Patel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.06.2024
• EAN: 9781032469355
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246935-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Architecture, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, ARCHITECTURE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, India, The environment, Urban & municipal planning, Social issues & processes, Science / Environmental Science, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Social and ethical issues, Urban communities, Development Studies, Urban and municipal planning and policy