ABSTRACT

From 1960–1973, the Ford Foundation and the Calcutta Metropolitan Planning Organization (CMPO) engaged in a unique partnership that produced the Basic Development Plan, a bold strategy for the development of the world’s ‘most troubled city.’ The Ford-CMPO partnership brought together leading planning experts from the United States and India and resulted in innovative and abortive development plans and programmes, and was beset by the economic and political crises that came to define post-Independence Calcutta. This paper provides a detailed history of the Ford-CMPO partnership and highlights the myriad of political dilemmas that challenged the project and that provide a window in the politics of planning and urban development in post-Independence India.

摘要

从 1960 年到 1973 年，福特基金会和加尔各答大都会规划组织 (CMPO) 建立了独特的合作伙伴关系，制定了基本发展计划，这是发展世界上“问题最严重的城市”的大胆战略。福特与 CMPO 的合作伙伴关系汇集了来自美国和印度的领先规划专家，产生了创新和失败的发展计划和计划，并受到了定义独立后加尔各答的经济和政治危机的困扰。本文详细介绍了福特与 CMPO 合作的历史，并强调了挑战该项目的无数政治困境，并为了解独立后印度的规划和城市发展政治提供了一个窗口。