(Un)bundling Bangalore: Infrastructure bundling ‘best practices’ and assembling novel scapes

Geoforum

Volumn 79, Issue , 2017, Pages 46-57

  Sadoway, David ^a   Gopakumar, Govind ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assemblage urbanism; Bangalore Bengaluru; Best practices; India; Infrastructure bundling; Urban infrastructure

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN POLICY;

BENGALURU; INDIA; KARNATAKA;

EID: 85007043766     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.12.006     Document Type: Article

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