- Participatory planning in the era of public-private-partnerships: complexities and contradictions in a migrant city in India   217 kb by    Chatterji, Thagatha | tatchatterji@gmail.com    Short Outline This paper explores the role of planning in bridging the gap between local rural residents and new urban middleclass and poor migrants in the context of globalisation. Abstract This paper explores how local political factors, rural-urban divide and conflicts between multiple tiers of government, impact participation of the migrant communities in the urban planning and governance process in a dynamic urban region, through a case study of Gurgaon, India. In two decades Gurgaon transformed from being a small agricultural town at the outer periphery of Delhi, to Northern India’s premier corporate destination and a global hub for the outsourcing industry. The new city is largely made up of migrants from all over India. However, this largely unplanned, market driven, rapid urban makeover has also created a complex settlement pattern marked by overlapping layers of socio-spatial relations. The everyday tensions and contradictions of this transitional journey, which came out sharply with the formation of a new municipal corporation, form the immediate backdrop the study. Keywords migrant Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper