Chapter 19: Watering India’s smart cities
Cat Button School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Abstract
Water is often absent from discourse on smart places. India's smart city drive detracts from the need for basic infrastructure, even while setting it as a priority in policy. The very act of framing it as “smart” overshadows service provision with headline-grabbing projects that are aimed at wealthy residents and leave those without access to basic infrastructure further behind. This chapter puts water at the center of discussions of smart places in India by considering the situation in Mumbai in the context of India's smart cities agenda. Rainwater harvesting could become ...
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