Message in a Metro: Building Urban Rail Infrastructure and Image in Delhi, India

Siemiatycki, Matti

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00664.x

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“…10 PUIs are defined as a 'model of intervention aimed at transforming positively, through social, physical and inter-institutional components, a specific urban space, by incorporating all elements of development in a parallel and planned manner, through infrastructure works with the highest quality standards, and with an ingredient of community participation so as to ensure their sustainability' (Medellín-EDU, 2011 the level of comuna and cannot be further disaggregated to examine the possible impact that the cable-cars might have had within a given distance of the stations. 14 The search for normalising the informal is also a feature of the Delhi metro, inaugurated in 2002 (Semiaticky, 2006). The Medellín Metro company has long promoted what it calls 'Cultura Metro', a set of norms of behaviour strictly enforced within the space of the Metro system, supplemented by a system of lending libraries.…”

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Mobility innovation at the urban margins

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2011

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With the consolidation of democratic governments in the 1980s and 1990s, wholesale evictions of entire neighbourhoods ceased to be a solution to urban problems in Latin America. This paper discusses an example of a new generation of municipal programmes aimed at physically upgrading informal settlements while integrating them both physically and socially into the fabric of the city. In Medellín, a city with a recent history of violence and social inequality, the audacious use of well-established ski-slope aerial cable-car technology in dense and hilly low-income informal settlements was followed by major neighbourhood upgrading comprising new social housing, schools and other social infrastructure, as well as support to micro-enterprises. Although lack of mobility contributes to social inequality and poverty, the paper argues that the introduction of quick-fix highly visible transport technology on its own is unlikely to help reduce poverty. Although urban upgrading programmes and the symbolic value of cable-car systems have instilled among the local population a feeling of inclusion and integration into the 'modern' city, they can also be understood as mechanisms for the 'normalisation' of informal sectors of the city.

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Mobility innovation at the urban margins

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“…A particularly virulent field for infrastructural politics is the area of privatisation and the debate around public-private partnerships (Siemiatycki 2006, Torrance 2009). This area has been of increasing importance as solidary cost-sharing agreements and more centre-hierarchical arrangements of payment and public commitments to capital investments have waned and new funding models have been experimented with under neoliberal hegemony.…”

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Contested Infrastructures: Tension, Inequity and Innovation in the Global Suburb

Filion

Keil

2016

Urban Policy and Research

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The article explores the suburban infrastructure reality at a global scale. It does so by acknowledging both the wide diversity of suburban forms across the world and the existence of common features that warrant the apprehension of suburbs as a unified object of study. Due to their rapid growth rate and an insufficient infrastructure development response, suburbs are perceived as more severely afflicted by infrastructure tensions than other urban sectors. They thus provide an ideal object of study to identify urban infrastructure shortcomings in the present age. At the same time, by virtue of their infrastructure difficulties and ongoing expansion, suburbs can be seen as a foremost source of infrastructure innovation.

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“…Most of the research studies focus on urban megaprojects covering sectors such as metro, river front developments, and urban investments corridor. Siemiatycki analyzed the physical and societal implications of metro project in Delhi and concluded that the project failed to meet the transportation needs of the city [14]. The Information Technology (IT) corridor in Chennai,a prominent urban megaproject, was examined by Vijayabaskar & Babu for understanding employment creation, mobility patterns and quality of urban development [10].…”

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Analysis of reasons for cost and time overrun in Indian megaprojects

Mevada

Devkar

2017

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. Megaprojects are becoming increasingly common in developing countries. In India, the need for and trend of rapid infrastructure development has resulted in design and implementation of projects of large scope and size, in terms of complexity and costs. As a result, megaprojects are being implemented in almost all infrastructure sectors in the country. The implementation of a megaproject attracts a lot of attention among the policy makers and researchers owing to their enormous economic, social and environmental impacts. The performance of megaprojects in terms of two key parameters -cost and time -is closely monitored by the Government of India, and this has resulted in the publication a set of reports to disclose information on project progress. Althoughquantitative analyses of the information available in these reports have been performed by the researchers, very few qualitative analysis reports are available. In this context, a qualitative research study has been undertaken in this work, to analyse the reasons for time and cost overrun in megaprojects. The analysis furthers the knowledge on megaprojects implementation by providing inference on not only key reasons for time and cost overruns but also factors and trajectories leading to the manifestation of a particular cause. The analysis indicates that delay in land acquisition, capability of contractors and contractual complexity were the major causes of time and cost overruns and these issues traverse through different layers -policy, institutional and project associated with megaprojects. The study findings are useful to policy makers to design interventions at these three layers for addressing the cause of time and cost overruns, and ensuring effective implementation of megaprojects.

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Message in a Metro: Building Urban Rail Infrastructure and Image in Delhi, India

Cited by 89 publications

References 8 publications

Mobility innovation at the urban margins

Mobility innovation at the urban margins

Contested Infrastructures: Tension, Inequity and Innovation in the Global Suburb

Analysis of reasons for cost and time overrun in Indian megaprojects

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