A G L Shaw

Biographic Data

ID745802
NAMEA G L Shaw
GIVEN NAMESA G L
FAMILY NAMEShaw
SIGNATURESHAW A G L
AFFILIATIONSIndian Institute of Management Calcutta
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS116
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1946
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX6

  • Urban development-induced displacement and quality of life in Kolkata

    Open AccessA G L Shaw, Annapurna Shaw et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Urbanization2018Cited by: 6References: 3

    This paper draws together issues of urban development-induced displacement and resettlement and the quality of life of the affected population over the longer term. It reviews settlement strategies related to the Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project, exploring residents’ recollection of the relocation process and comparing and contrasting the situation over time of two groups of low-income households: those who refused a resettlement package…

  • Inner-city and Outer-city Neighbourhoods in Kolkata: Their Changing Dynamics Post Liberalization

    Open AccessA G L Shaw, Annapurna ShawARTICLEEnvironment and Urbanization Asia2015

    The central areas of the largest metropolitan cities in India are slowing down. Outer suburbs continue to grow but the inner city consisting of the oldest wards is stagnating and even losing population. This trend needs to be studied carefully as its implications are deep and far-reaching. The objective of this article is to focus on what is happening to the internal structure of the city post liberalization by highlighting the changing dynamics …

  • Metropolitan City Growth and Management in Post-liberalized India

    A G L ShawARTICLEEurasian Geography and Economics2012Cited by: 4References: 3

    A noted Indian urban geographer examines the growth and management of metropolitan cities in India since the country's economic liberalization was introduced in 1991. The author discusses the significant changes in urban policy that have been initiated over the last two decades, with the state diluting its presence in many sectors and inviting private capital participation in the economy. Also covered are metropolitan growth and investment patter…

  • Town Planning in Postcolonial India, 1947-1965: Chandigarh Re-Examined 1

    A G L Shaw, Annapurna ShawARTICLEUrban Geography2009Cited by: 5References: 6

    The objective of this article is to reassess the new town building movement in India from 1947 to 1965 through a re-examination of the making of Chandigarh, to show how nationalism, modernism, and local regional influences affected the design and building of new towns. Chandigarh emerged as part of the post-Partition need for a new capital for the Punjab, and involved the efforts of several people and levels of government. The context of newly ac…

  • Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City 1

    A G L Shaw, Annapurna Shaw et al.ARTICLEUrban Geography2009Cited by: 2References: 6

    (2009). Introduction—Decolonization and Urban Change in the Asian City1. Urban Geography: Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 809-814

  • Metropolitan restructuring in post-liberalized India: Separating the global and the local

    Open AccessA G L Shaw, Annapurna Shaw et al.ARTICLECities2007Cited by: 13References: 8

  • Planning and Local Economies in Navi Mumbai: Processes of Growth and Governance

    A G L Shaw, Annapurna ShawARTICLEUrban Geography2003Cited by: 2References: 4

    The objective of this article is to situate the development of unplanned settlements in the newly planned city of Navi Mumbai (New Bombay) in terms of the increasing contradictions in global interconnectedness experienced by the larger Mumbai (Bombay) metropolitan region. The article distinguishes between a global and a local economy operating in the urban region. Using the governance approach to urban poverty in Third World cities, it highlights…

  • The Geography of Segmentation of Informal Labor Markets: The Case of Motor Vehicle Repair in Calcutta

    A G L Shaw, Annapurna Shaw et al.ARTICLEEconomic Geography2001Cited by: 1References: 14

    Although the informal sector has been the subject of enormous academic interest since the mid-1970s, one topic that has received relatively little scholarly attention is the spatial dynamics of informal sector activities and their labor markets. Our study examines the processes giving rise to the spatial segmentation of informal labor markets using a case study of motor vehicle repair workers in two areas of Calcutta. Our findings indicate that l…

  • Book

    Jan Kociumbas, A G L Shaw et al.ARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies1999

    Convict Women. By Kay Daniels. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xi + 276. $24.95 paper. Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Labour Forced Migration. Edited by Ian Duffield and James Bradley. Leicester University Press, London, 1997. Pp. xxii + 224. £49.95 cloth. Irish Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Trevor McClaughlin. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xvii + 229. $24.95 paper. Catherine: On Catherine Currie's Diary, 1878–190…

  • The Planning and Development of New Bombay

    Open AccessA G L Shaw, Annapurna ShawARTICLEModern Asian Studies1999Cited by: 2References: 1

    Since independence (1947), foremost among the issues related to the growth of Bombay has been the decision to build New Bombay, a new city on the mainland across from Bombay island. In this paper, I examine first, the emergence of the idea of New Bombay and the interest groups who influenced the planning process. Secondly, I examine the actual achievements of the New Bombay project and the disjuncture between planning and reality. The New Bombay …

  • Satellite Town Development in Asia: The Case of New Bombay, India

    A G L Shaw, Annapurna ShawARTICLEUrban Geography1995Cited by: 4References: 4

    In the 1960s and 1970s, Asian urban development policies centered on slowing down the rate of urbanization through controlson the growth of the large metropolitan cities. Satellite towns and greenbelts have been among the most widely adopted means to achieve this. However, on the whole, satellite towns have proved to be ineffectual in meeting original objectives, and those towns built to be self-contained have been most successful. Although the o…

  • Urban growth and land-use conflicts: The case of New Bombay

    A G L Shaw, Annapurna ShawARTICLEBulletin of Concerned Asian…1994References: 1

    Until about the 1950s, growth in Indian cities remained largely confined within municipal boundaries. After this period the conversion of agricultural land to urban uses began to occur at a faster rate when rapid population growth necessitated the lateral spread of the city and its incursion into surrounding rural areas. To make land readily available for urban uses, increasingly powerful legislation has been enacted enabling the state to take ov…

  • British policy towards the Australian aborigines, 1830–1850

    A G L ShawARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies1992Cited by: 9References: 4

  • Fertility and child spacing among the urban Poor in a Third World city: The case of Calcutta, India

    Open AccessA G L Shaw, Annapurna ShawARTICLEHuman Ecology1988

  • The Income Security Function of the Rural Sector: The Case of Calcutta, India

    A G L Shaw, Annapurna ShawARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1988Cited by: 3

  • Commentary on “A Politics of Failure: The Political Geography of Ghanaian Elections, 1954–1979”

    A G L Shaw, Annapurna ShawARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…1986Cited by: 2References: 3

  • The informal sector in a Third World urban economy: A case study of Calcutta, India

    A G L Shaw, Annapurna ShawARTICLEBulletin of Concerned Asian…1985Cited by: 4References: 2

    An unresolved controversy exists in development literature over the nature and function of the informal sector in urban areas of the Third World. The controversy revolves around the presumed relationship between the modern system of industrial production (often termed the “formal sector”) and that part of the urban economy operating outside it (the “informal sector”). The earlier view that the informal sector is a source of employment which can b…

  • Sir George Arthur, Bart, 1784-1854: Superintendent of British Honduras, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land and of Upper Canada, Governor of the Bombay Presidency

    Samuel Clyde Mcculloch, A G L ShawARTICLEThe American Historical Review1981Cited by: 2

  • Books reviewed

    Irwin Yellowitz, Joseph R Starobin et al.ARTICLELabor History1977

    The Communist Party in Canada. By Ivan Avakumovic. Toronto: McClellan & Steward Ltd, 1975. 275 pp. $5.95, paper. Sozialismus in der Propaganda: Das Werben der “Völkischen Beobachter” um die österreichische Arbeiterschaft 1938/1939. By Robert Schwartz. “Materialien zur Arbeiterbewegung,” no. 2. Vienna, 1975. 159 pp. The Town Labourer and the Industrial Revolution. By Malcolm I. Thomis. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1975. 247 pp. $11.00. Economics an…

  • Discovering Monaro. A Study of Man's Impact on His Environment

    A G L Shaw, W K HancockARTICLEThe Economic History Review1973Cited by: 14

    Discovering Monaro, a fascinating local history of an Australian region, is at the same time a contribution to the current debate on the environment and man's manipulation of it. Sir Keith Hancock examines critically the indictment, heralded by Plato in the Critias, that man is a creature who spoils his environment and in so doing spoils himself. He discovers in Monaro, as he did on the terraced hillsides of Tuscany forty years ago, a rhythm of s…

  • Great Britain and the Colonies, 1815-1865

    Walter M Stern, A G L ShawARTICLEEconomica1971

  • Great Britain and the Colonies, 1815-1865

    D K Fieldhouse, A G L ShawARTICLEThe Economic History Review1971

  • The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism: Classical Political Economy and the Empire of Free Trade and Imperialism, 1750-1850

    A G L Shaw, Bernard SemmelARTICLEThe Economic History Review1971

  • British Attitudes to the Colonies, ca. 1820-1850

    Open AccessA G L ShawARTICLEJournal of British Studies1969Cited by: 9References: 4

    In an article in the Journal of British Studies in November 1965, Helen Taft Manning, referring particularly to the period 1830 to 1850, asked the question, “Who ran the British Empire?” She was especially concerned with the influence of the famous James Stephen, but her question raises matters of wider concern. “Patterns of historical writing are notoriously difficult to change,” she wrote. Much of what is still being written about colonial admi…

  • The Evolution of Australian Foreign Policy 1938-1965

    C Hartley Grattan, Alan Watts et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1968