Ph.D. Candidate
Mr Diganta Kumar DAS

Digital Divisions: Urban Splintering in High-Tech Hyderabad

Advances in information technology have led to the restructuring of cities. Over the past few decades such advances have engulfed the developed countries, and more recently spread to the developing countries.

Cities or city-regions have become the core of the global economy in this new informational mode of development. My study is focused on Hyderabad which provides an important context to examine the growing social polarization, city-centric development, urban fragmentation (splintering) and emerging disparities at different scales due to the impact of globalization and informational mode of development.

My research is focused around three main objectives, first, to understand the critical geographical analysis of the state's effort and its role in post-1991 scenario to make a new urban intelligent 'Hi-Tech' space in Hyderabad.

Second, to examine the changing urban space of Hyderabad due to the informatonal mode of development, the subsequent socio-spatial changes and its relationships with the socio-spatial politics of urban high-tech space making.

Third, I will explore the issues of digital divide and its multidimensionality aspect in and around Hyderabad.