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    Urban Sociology

    Lec 14: 08/02/2024


    Gentrification and urban informality

    Dr. Amrita Sen


    Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
    email: [email protected]
    The City: 2 Views

    • Chaos, unplanned,
    • Planned, orderly, organised –
    with modern infrastructure disorder – with slums,
    vendors, etc.
    Introduction
    The study of cities is marked by a paradox:
    1. Much of the urban growth is taking place in the Third World
    2. But, urban theory is driven by the First World.

    The First World – ‘models’ and the Third World is considered the
    ‘problem’?
    • The problem : Planning practices are borrowed – do not fit our Ananya Roy

    context.
    • How “planning” produces the “unplannable” - placing informality
    outside the formal order of urbanization.
    Informality – as a mode of Urbanization

    • Informality is not a separate sector.

    • It is a series of transactions that connect different


    economies and spaces to one another.

    • How?

    • In Dharavi, slum dwellers manufacture products for global


    markets.
    Dharavi, Mumbai.
    • Here, informality is a mode of urbanization.

    • Mode = manner/ form / method.


    Does gentrification lead to urban development??
    1. Lack of Comprehensive development
    2. Lack of inclusive employment
    3. Lack of equally distributed development
    4. Land valued more than people
    GENTRIFICATION OF CITIES: A CASE OF MUMBAI

    • The outbreak of fire at two


    upscale restaurants in the
    Kamala Mills compound
    in Mumbai's erstwhile
    textile mill area claimed 14 lives
    on 28 December 2017.

    • As the investigation progressed, various issues related to the arbitrary


    structural alterations, and illegal use of space in the Kamala Mills building
    came to the fore.
    • Arbitrary structural transformations to buildings, with little concerns
    for safety and structural abilities.

    • Gentrification creates new spaces of capital accumulation that are


    directly linked to bourgeois modes of consumption.

    • Disguised by ideologies of heritage, conservation, and elite


    placemaking.

    • Service sector firms, information technology industries, media and


    advertising, finance, and the creative sector occupied the mill
    compounds and factory buildings.
    • There is a transformation from heavy industry to creative stores and
    creative industries.

    • The original structure might not have been erased.

    • But the identity has been changed due to reconfiguration of space.

    • Produced a secluded space because of its high pricing thereby increasing


    inequality.

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