ABSTRACT The Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent migrant crisis has exposed and magnified the cracks in the politico-economic arrangements of our cities. Going beyond the pandemic, however, the article argues that the crisis is rooted in the manner in which our cities have been imagined, planned, and developed under the modernist paradigm and further guided by the neoliberal framework. The problems that have surfaced today have been always present but been brushed aside or given symptomatic treatment in the governance and policy sphere. Engaging with the planning and its interrelated dynamics in Delhi from a social justice perspective, the article explores the imagination of the city as formulated over the years through urban planning, how it impacts the integration of the migrant labor in the city and how the state capacity is central to these questions.

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危机中的城市：通过城市规划和国家能力审查大流行

摘要 Covid-19 大流行和随后的移民危机暴露并放大了我们城市政治经济安排中的裂痕。然而，除了大流行之外，文章认为，这场危机的根源在于我们的城市在现代主义范式下的想象、规划和发展方式，并进一步受到新自由主义框架的指导。今天浮出水面的问题一直存在，但在治理和政策领域却被忽视或对症处理。从社会正义的角度探讨德里的规划及其相互关联的动态，本文探讨了多年来通过城市规划制定的城市想象力，