Entrepreneurial Governance and the Ahmedabad Gujari Bazaar: Erasure of the Sabarmati River as Commons
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Entrepreneurial Governance
Commons
Ahmedabad
Sabarmati River
Ahmedabad Gujari Bazaar
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This essay frames the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project (SRFDP) against a cultural history of the Sabarmati riverbed as a
commons and against the successive aesthetic readings of the riverfront correlating with Ahmedabad’s urbanization. Design practice
materialized Ahmedabadi elites’ desires to remake Ahmedabad as a global city by commodifying the Sabarmati landscape. This
simultaneously erased the socio-spatial networks and practices grounding the working poor in the riverbed for centuries. The case of
the Ahmedabad Gujari Bazaar provides insight into these disempowering processes and into the market traders’ actions to claim their right in shaping the city for their survival as well.
commons and against the successive aesthetic readings of the riverfront correlating with Ahmedabad’s urbanization. Design practice
materialized Ahmedabadi elites’ desires to remake Ahmedabad as a global city by commodifying the Sabarmati landscape. This
simultaneously erased the socio-spatial networks and practices grounding the working poor in the riverbed for centuries. The case of
the Ahmedabad Gujari Bazaar provides insight into these disempowering processes and into the market traders’ actions to claim their right in shaping the city for their survival as well.
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Diwadkar, V. (2013). Entrepreneurial Governance and the Ahmedabad Gujari Bazaar: Erasure of the Sabarmati River as Commons. Materia Arquitectura, (07), 110–115. https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v0i07.228
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BHARWADA, C. & VINAY M. (2006): Gujarat: Quiet Transfer of Commons. Economic and Political Weekly, 41(4); 313-315.
BHATT, E. R. (2006). We are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-employed Women in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
COLOMINA, B. (1992). The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism. En B. Colomina (Ed.), Sexuality & Space (págs. 73-130). Nueva York: Princeton Architectural Press.
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DESAI, R. (2011). Producing and Contesting the ‘Communalized City’: Hindutva Politics and Urban Space in Ahmedabad. En N. AlSayyad & M. Massoumi (Eds.), The fundamentalist city?: Religiosity and the Remaking of Urban Space (págs. 99-124). Nueva York: Routledge.
DESAI, R. (2012a). Entrepreneurial Urbanism in the Time of Hindutva: City Imagineering, Place Marketing, and Citizenship in Ahmedabad. En R. S. Desai, Urbanizing Citizenship: Contested spaces in Indian Cities (págs. 31-43). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
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GIDWANI, V. & BAVISKAR, A. (2011). Urban Commons. Economic & Political Weekly, 46(50), 42-43.
HARVEY, D. (1989). From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism. Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, 71(1, The Roots of Geographical Change: 1973 to the Present), 3-17.
HCP DESIGN & PROJECT MANAGEMENT PVT. LTD. (Noviembre 2011): Conference Slideshow: Sabarmati Riverfront Development: Integrated Environmental Improvement and Urban Revitalization. Recuperado de: http://iuc2011.in/sites/default/files/presentations/Sabarmati-Riverfront-Development_comp.pdf
JOHN, P. (Marzo 2013). Dry Sabarmati’s Abuse Comes to Light in Times of India - Ahmedabad Online. The Times of India. Recuparado de: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-15/ahmedabad/37743076_1_narmadawaters-irrigation-department-amc-plans
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MATHUR, A. & DA CUNHA, D. (27 de marzo de 2013). South Asia as a Hydrologic Depth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
MATHUR, N. (2012). On the Sabarmati Riverfront: Urban Planning as Totalitarian Governance in Ahmedabad. Economic & Political Weekly, 47(47-48), 64-75.
MATHUR, N., & JOSHI, A. (Directores). (2009). Global Sites, Local Lives. Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad [Película].
MEHROTRA, R. (2008). Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai. En A. Huyssen, Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age (págs. 205-218). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
MEHROTRA, R. (2011). Architecture in India since 1990. Bombay, Ostfildern: Pictor, Hatje Cantz.
MITCHELL, W. J. (2002). Landscape and Power (Segunda ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
MODI, N. (2013). Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2013. Recuperado de: http://www.vibrantgujarat.com
OUR INCLUSIVE AHMEDABAD. (2010). Report of Public Hearing on Habitat and Livelihood Displacements, Ahmedabad. Recuperado de: http://www.spcept.ac.in/download/cuemisc/Public-Hearing-Report-2010.pdf
PATEL, BIMAL. (2011, March 1). Urban Journal: Show Them What You’re Making. Recuperado el 8 de julio de 2013, de India Real Time, Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/03/01/urban-journal-show-them-what-youre-making
PATEL, BIMAL, MATHUR, N. & FIRST SATURDAYS MEETING GROUP. (Enero 2012): Dark Side of Planning: Riverfront Development of Ahmedabad. Discusión Pública en First Saturday Meetings, St. Xavier’s Social Service Society. Ahmedabad, India.
PATEL, BINA. (2011). Development of Water Quality Index: A Case of Sabarmati River Front Development Project. Conference on Inclusive and Sustainable Growth, Nagpur. 1st ed. Vol. 1. Houston: International Journal of Academic Conference Proceedings. Recuperado de: http://ojs.ijacp.org/index.php/ISG/article/view/16/19
RITTEL, H. & WEBBER, M. (1973): Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning. Policy Sciences, 4(2): 155-69.
SHAH, N. (Agosto, 2010). Conversation with Project Manager Niki Shah at HCP Office. (V. Diwadkar, Entrevistador).
SWYNGEDOUW, E. & KAIKA, M. (2003). The making of ‘glocal’ urban modernities. City, 7(1), 5-21.
TOUCHALEAUME, E. & MOREAU, G. (Eds.); Vigo, M. (Col.). (2010). Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret. L’aventure indienne / The Indian Adventure. Design - Art - Architecture. París, Montreui: Éric Touchaleaume Galerie 54, Gourcuff Gradenigo.
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VAKIL, S. (1995). Gujari: A Concept of Contemporality. National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad [Tesis de grado].
YAGNIK, A. & SHETH, S. (2005). The shaping of modern Gujarat: plurality, Hindutva, and beyond. Nueva Deli: Penguin Books.
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