http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP-nv93G2v4
I knew nothing about the city of Gurgaon, India before watching this.... its current building boom...
Nonetheless, this video is a clear example of how worldwide discourses of 'globalization' often lack nuance. Notions of growth (w/o development) are largely unproblematized (they lead with talk of multinationals coming to the city)--as painted by interviews with urban planners, discussions of infrastructure, the problems with predatory developers, etc.
What do we think when we imagine we can actually affect a large swathe of reality - seething with hundreds of thousands of living souls who all have volition and are actors struggling themselves ....
