01545nam a22001457a 4500999001900000008004100019100007400060245002900134260003400163300003200197520102200229773003401251942000701285952010701292  c533126d533126260427b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a Das, Keshab  Fatima, Sheema Gandhi, Kanchan  and Sood, Ashima960238  aLocating urban knowledge  aEconomic & Political Weekly    a61(6), Feb 7, 2026: p.41-43  aMuch like the fields of law, management, policy, design and architecture, which remain informed by applied social sciences in both practice and research, urban planning in India has its cross-disciplinary cognate in urban studies. The relationship has been ambivalent and sometimes conflicted (Vidyarthi et al 2012). Arriving at or often speaking to similar problematics of inclusion, sustainability and even practicality with respect to land, resource access and allocation of space, urban practice across planning and policy domains has often disavowed the critical traditions that shape the field of urban studies (Chatterji and Soni 2016). In particular, as a professional arena of practice, urban planning has tended to neglect the vast “informal” systems across housing, retail, waste, transport and even climate change that undergird urban “people” as infrastructure in India (Simone 2014; Hussain et al 2024).-Reproduced 

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