Agents of Change and Obstruction: Municipal Councilors and Urban D/Development in the Mumbai Metropolitan

Human Geography(United Kingdom)

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 31-47

  van Dijk, Tara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bur cratas callejeros; concejales municipales; desarrollo urbano; gobernanza urbana; Mumbai; municipal councilors; political society; sociedad pol tica; street level bureaucrats; urban development; urban governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996172472     PISSN: 19427786     EISSN: 2633674X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/194277861100400203     Document Type: Article

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