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Urban experiments and climate change: securing zero carbon development in Bangalore

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  • Harriet Bulkeley
  • Vanesa Castán Broto

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Climate change is an increasingly important issue on urban policy and research agendas. As this agenda gathers pace, this paper argues for an approach that recognises the critical role of climate change experiments in meditating the response to climate change in the city. Drawing on a case study of a green housing development in the outskirts of Bangalore in India--Towards Zero Carbon Development (T-Zed)--the paper follows the emergence of an experiment in the simultaneous processes of making, maintaining and living low carbon alongside and in between existing infrastructure regimes. It is argued that this experiment has created space for social and technical innovation, reworking notions of urban development in Bangalore. At the same time, it has reconfigured existing urban infrastructure networks through new discourses and practices of urban ecological security, enabling the emergence of a new rhetoric of low carbon living within the city that effectively marries green forms of consumption with urban development. While the experiment serves as a means for modifying urbanism in Bangalore, its results are ambivalent in the context of ongoing inequalities within the city and beyond.

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  • Harriet Bulkeley & Vanesa Castán Broto, 2014. "Urban experiments and climate change: securing zero carbon development in Bangalore," Contemporary Social Science, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(4), pages 393-414, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsocxx:v:9:y:2014:i:4:p:393-414
    DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2012.692483
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    1. Vanesa Castán Broto & HS Sudhira, 2019. "Engineering modernity: Water, electricity and the infrastructure landscapes of Bangalore, India," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(11), pages 2261-2279, August.
    2. Patrik Zapata & María José Zapata Campos, 2019. "Cities, institutional entrepreneurship and the emergence of new environmental policies: The organizing of waste prevention in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 37(2), pages 339-359, March.
    3. Katarina Buhr & Karolina Isaksson & Pernilla Hagbert, 2018. "Local Interpretations of Degrowth—Actors, Arenas and Attempts to Influence Policy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(6), pages 1-14, June.
    4. Broto, Vanesa Castán, 2017. "Energy landscapes and urban trajectories towards sustainability," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 755-764.

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