1 octobre 2013
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Tawa Lama-Rewal Stéphanie et al., « Introduction. Urban Democracy: A South Asian Perspective », South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, ID : 10.4000/samaj.3188
The ‘urban question’ has attracted increasing attention since the 1990s in the South Asian context because the issues at stake take on a particular urgency in the subcontinent for several reasons. A first, obvious reason is the increasing (and even strategic) importance of cities from a demographic, political and economic perspective. South Asia is home to 5 of the 10 largest cities—in fact, megacities—in the world. At the same time, with an urban population of 485 million, South Asia remains...