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Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi

Ghertner, D. Asher

Oxford University Press, 2015

How aesthetic governance displaces communities; relevant to disaster gentrification and equitable recovery

Cited in the thesis endnotes on displacement risks in riverfront development. Ghertner’s analysis of how aesthetic governance displaces communities in Delhi informs the thesis’s warning that green infrastructure and riverfront beautification must not become gentrification tools, a concern applied directly to Lahaina’s riparian buffer and coastal park proposals.