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Journal Article

16 February 2017

‘These Streets Are Ours’: Mumbai’s Urban Form and Security in the Vernacular

Using detailed case study material from a group of inner-city neighbourhoods in Mumbai, India, the article suggests that urban form in its physical, political and historical characterisations not only influences how vigilante protection operates, but also interacts in a non-benign manner with the mechanics by which the state endeavours to control violence.

Jaideep Gupte

India

Brief

8 December 2016

Creating Safe and Inclusive Cities That Leave No One Behind

Published by: IDS

Half of humanity now lives in urban areas, and a growing number of cities are leading the way in generating global GDP. However, cities have increasingly become key loci of violence over the last 50 years, which particularly affects the most marginalised.

Jaideep Gupte

Opinion

16 November 2016

Nigeria’s brutal slum wrecking breaks principles of New Urban Agenda

Jaideep Gupte

Brief

19 October 2016

Creating Safe and Inclusive Cities That Leave No One Behind: Seven Key Pathways to Actualising the Principles of the New Urban Agenda

Published by: IDS

This paper serves as a background note for the Habitat III side-event ‘Creating Safe and Inclusive Cities That Leave No One Behind’. It brings together research and practice to understand how well-managed urbanisation can revitalise urban spaces that had either been lost to violence or suffered from a lack of access to basic services and neglect.

Jaideep Gupte

Past Event

Creating Safe and Inclusive Cities That Leave No One Behind

At the Habitat III Conference, this event will focus on how well-managed urbanisation can revitalise urban spaces that had either been lost to violence or suffered from a lack of access to basic services and neglect.

19 October 2016

UN Habitat III: Creating Safe and Inclusive Cities That Leave No One Behind

Project

UN Habitat III: Creating Safe and Inclusive Cities That Leave No One Behind

Addressing security and inclusion in cities as universal issues, at this side-event we will focus on how well-managed urbanisation can revitalise urban spaces that had either been lost to violence or suffered from a lack of access to basic services and neglect.

Latest work

Creating Safe and Inclusive Cities That Leave No One Behind

Opinion

22 July 2016

A New Urban Agenda for creating safe and secure cities?

Jaideep Gupte

Journal Article

3 May 2016

The Dialectics of Urban Form and Violence

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Violence is increasingly a defining characteristic of urban living in both conflict and non-conflict settings. This has important consequences for the relatively under-researched links between urban violence, the processes of state building, and wider development goals.

Jaideep Gupte

Hadeer El Shafie

Brief

26 February 2016

Rethinking Approaches to Peace-Building and Political Settlements in an Increasingly Urbanised World

Published by: IDS

Violence in cities significantly compromises development and can have detrimental consequences for peace-building and political settlements in both conflict and non-conflict settings.

Jaideep Gupte

Cities, Violence and Order Policy Anticipation, Response and Evaluation

Journal Article

26 February 2016

Cities, Violence and Order: the Challenges and Complex Taxonomy of Security Provision in Cities of Tomorrow

Published by: IDS

How will security in cities be understood in the future? For whom will it be provided? What are the ways by which urban security provision will be governed? And, what impact will violence and order in cities have on the processes of state-building in fragile contexts in the future? These questions are uppermost in the minds of policymakers and academics.

Jaideep Gupte

Stephen Commins

Policy Anticipation, Response and Evaluation Brazil Central and South Asia India Latin America and the Caribbean

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‘These Streets Are Ours’: Mumbai’s Urban Form and Security in the Vernacular

Creating Safe and Inclusive Cities That Leave No One Behind

Nigeria’s brutal slum wrecking breaks principles of New Urban Agenda

Creating Safe and Inclusive Cities That Leave No One Behind: Seven Key Pathways to Actualising the Principles of the New Urban Agenda

Creating Safe and Inclusive Cities That Leave No One Behind

UN Habitat III: Creating Safe and Inclusive Cities That Leave No One Behind

Latest work

A New Urban Agenda for creating safe and secure cities?

The Dialectics of Urban Form and Violence

Rethinking Approaches to Peace-Building and Political Settlements in an Increasingly Urbanised World

Cities, Violence and Order: the Challenges and Complex Taxonomy of Security Provision in Cities of Tomorrow