Machine generated contents note: 1.World-Class City Making -- 2.Gentrifying the State: Governing Through Property -- 3.Nuisance Talk: From Sensory Disgust to Urban Abjection -- 4.Aesthetic Criminalization: The Nuisance of Slums -- 5.World-Class Detritus: The Sense of Unbelonging -- 6.The Propriety of Property: Resettlement and the Pursuit of Belonging.
Summary:
'Rule by Aesthetics' draws on extensive fieldwork in Delhi's slums, courtrooms and state offices to shed fresh light on the violent underpinnings of contemporary city making. Presenting a new theory of urban power, Ghertner shows how aesthetic codes replaced conventional city planning tools in Delhi's millennial slum clearance drive.