Coelho, K., Mahadevia, D. and Williams, G. orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-5574 (2020) Outsiders in the periphery: studies of the peripheralisation of low income housing in Ahmedabad and Chennai, India. International Journal of Housing Policy, 22 (4). pp. 543-569. ISSN 1461-6718
Abstract
The growing emphasis on affordable housing and the sharp increase in its supply in Indian cities over the past two decades is characterised by two features that diminish the inclusive and integrative role of affordable urban housing. The first is the move toward constructing new housing stock rather than upgrading existing stock. Second, most of this new housing, increasingly in the form of multi-storied tenement buildings, is located on urban peripheries in isolated or poorly connected sites. In focusing on the peripheralisation of formal low-income housing, this paper adds a new dimension to studies of peripheral urbanisation in India, which have hitherto focused on high-end speculative developments or informal settlements of the poor. Drawing on mixed-method field studies of four formal low-income settlements in Ahmedabad and Chennai, this paper argues that residents of these settlements experience a multifaceted dynamic of disconnection, not only from the city but also from other peripheral developments, rendering them outsiders in the periphery. Three dynamics of disconnection are studied: first, the allocation of fully built housing units disconnects residents from processes of housing production. Second, spatial dislocation constrains their mobility, both physical and socioeconomic. Third, these two dynamics, combined with substandard infrastructure and housing conditions, alienate residents from the new settlements, and curtail their engagement in processes of place-making or the production of neighborhoods.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in European Journal of Housing Policy. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | peripheralisation; low-income housing; resettlement; disconnection; Ahmedabad; Chennai |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2020 07:28 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2024 07:56 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/19491247.2020.1785660 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:161935 |