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Planning as commoning: Transformation of a Bangalore lake [1]

The transformation of human settlements over time can affect the relationship between communities and commons when, for example, social geographies change from rural to urban, or from traditional systems of management to modern bureaucratic systems. Communities that were dependent on particular commons could become less dependent, or abandon those commons. New communities of interest might emerge. Examining the transformation of a lake in Bangalore, this paper argues that in the community struggle towards creating and claiming commons, claiming the sphere of planning is fundamental.

Publication Date: 
10/12/2011
Jayaraj Sundaresan [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
46
50
71-79
Tags:
Common Property Resources [4], Bangalore (T) [5], Lakes [6], Land Acquisition [7], Tanks [8], Sacred Groves [9], Compensation [10], Supreme Court [11], High Court [12], Conflicts [13], Water Pollution [14], Private Sector [15], Urban Encroachments [16], Public Participation [17], Lake Pollution [18], Karnataka [19], Urban Development [20], Urban Planning [21]

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