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作者

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.42,Issue3,P.263-288

语言

英文

关键字

Techno-managerial urban development,social-ecological systems change,water infrastructure,Bengaluru,Sanitary cities

作者单位

a Urban Institute, ICOSS, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK;b School of Development, Azim Premji University, PES Institute of Technology Campus, Bangalore, India

摘要

This paper uses the example of a lost urban lake – the Dharmambudhi within the south Indian city of Bengaluru to illustrate the profound and long-standing effects of historical socio-technical infrastructural change. We demonstrate processes by which capitalist urban development and notions of the sanitary city in the nineteenth century led to the collapse of the lake system and its conversion into a bus station. We also show how by removing the use of the water body, it became possible to destroy a critical urban ecological infrastructure, thus making it unusable to people who depended upon it to sustain their lives and livelihoods. This coupled with technocratic narratives of efficiency and scarcity led to the co-opting of the resource rendering them separate from urban life.KEYWORDS: Techno-managerial urban developmentsocial-ecological systems changewater infrastructureBengaluruSanitary citiesAcknowledgmentsThis study was enabled through a British Academy funded Newton International Fellowship granted to HU, funding from Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize awarded to VCB. The authors are deeply grateful to the Karnataka State Archives, Bengaluru; the Divisional Archives, Mysuru; the National Archives, New Delhi; the India Office of the British Library, London, the Mythic Society, Bengaluru; and the Survey of India, Bengaluru Office for granting us access to historical material housed within their collections. We also thank Seema Mundoli for her help with obtaining some of the archival material used in this study.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Newton Fund [NF171305]; Azim Premji University; Leverhulme Trust (GB).