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Asher Ghertner gives us a rich, multidimensional view of city making in the Global South as we rarely see and feel it. His work is grounded in sharp observations and revealing interviews that expose Delhi's slum clearance efforts like a gaping wound. Theoretically adventurous and politically aware, Ghertner shows a decisive shift in world city building from statistics to aesthetics, yet with little improvement in the lives of the poor. -Sharon Zukin, Professor of Sociology, City University of New York, and author of Naked City In the early 21st century, as slum populations are expanding rapidly in the world's megacities, new governmental programs of eviction are being mobilized to 'make room' for land uses considered more appropriate to elite visions of the global city. In this original, meticulous investigation, Asher Ghertner explores how such transformations have been implemented and contested in millennial Delhi. In so doing, he offers an illuminating, if disturbing, portrait of emergent patterns of legal struggle, displacement, and resistance in that city, while also provoking urbanists to devote more attention to the role of 'aesthetic governmentality' in the contemporary remaking of urban space. -Neil Brenner, Professor of Urban Theory, Harvard University, and author of New State Spaces

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D. Asher Ghertner is an interdisciplinary scholar who uses the contemporary politics of slum demolition and urban renewal in India to challenge conventional theories of economic transition, city planning and political rule. He is Assistant Professor in Geography and Director of the South Asian Studies Program at Rutgers University. He previously taught at the London School of Economics.

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