Gated Luxury Condominiums in India

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Verticality and prestige: bungalows to gated luxury condominiums

PART I: Conception

1. The allure of exclusivity: imagery, investment and identity

2. Liminal luxury: identity and spatial constructs

3. Dwellings and social prestige - vernacular, colonial, postcolonial India

PART II: Occupation - Case studies from Mumbai and Pune

4. The new cosmopolitans - modern domesticity

5. Old discriminations, new spatial mechanisms: the spectacle of consumption

PART III: Evolution

6. From global to neocolonial? Progression of type

7. Beyond the Gates: unpacking social mobility and spatial politics

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Index

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• Arquitectura
• Sociologia
• Planeamento urbano e municipal
• Estudos sobre o desenvolvimento
• Classes sociais
• As questões sociais e processos
• Comunidades urbanas
• Ambiente
• Antropologia

Gated Luxury Condominiums;New Cosmopolitans;neoliberalism;India's urban development;spatial ethnography;postcolonial critiques