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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : LCCN:2002286995
Author : Joël Ruet,Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136518225
First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : N. T. K. Naik,S. Mansoor Rahman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Urbanization
ISBN : UOM:39015070113587
There Are Three Great Socio-Economic Revolutions Namely The Industrial Revolution, The Agrarian Revolution And Transport Revolution That In Turn Sparked Of Another Great Revolution, That Is The Urban Revolution . Now The World Is Experiencing An Urban Explosion. The Population Avalanche In Developing Countries Is Mainly Responsible For The Spurt Of Urban Population In The World. The Explosive Increase In Population And The Sprawling Urban Growth Have Far Reaching Social, Economic, Demographic, Ecological And Political Implications In Developing Countries, As It Brings In The Strenuous Burden On The Weary Shoulders Of The Developing Nations To Create And Provide Urban Infrastructure, Facilities And Services For The Surging Population
Author : Viswambhar Nath
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 8180694127
Author : Joel Kotkin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781588361400
In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come, and why. He examines the new role of cities in America and takes us into the new American neighborhood. The New Geography is a brilliant and indispensable guidebook to a fundamentally new landscape.
Author : Archana Ghosh,Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064774246
This book presents the findings of an empirical study of the implementation of women s reservations in four Indian mega-cities: Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. It offers a detailed and lively account of what it means to be a woman Councillor in an Indian mega-city today, and a critical view of the functioning of Municipal Corporations, with specific emphasis on women s roles and opportunities to participate and perform in their new environment. By choosing to consider the decentralization policy in general and women s reservations in particular as an experiment in democratization, the authors provide useful and useable insights into a range of issues at stake.To what extent, in what ways and under which conditions can increased political representation of women at the local level empower women?Is the functioning of urban local bodies truly participatory and inclusive?What are the (other) reforms needed to make women elected to urban local bodies more effective agents of urban development?Archana Ghosh, an economist, is Senior Faculty and Head of the Urban Studies Department in the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, and is based in its Eastern Regional Centre at Kolkata.Stéphanie Tawa Lama Rewal, a political scientist, is a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of India and South Asia (CNRS EHESS), Paris, and a visiting scholar at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi.
Author : S. K. Kulshrestha
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811654695
This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America. These cities are not be seen in isolation from their respective influence regions. They complement each other. Most of the solutions to the problems of such cities are found in their respective regions, and, on the other hand, the regions derive their strength from their respective megacities. There is a need for promoting integrated spatial planning of megacity regions. The five chapters in this book highlight the spatial planning of such regions.
Author : R.B. Singh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9784431550433
In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments in Asia and examined emerging resilience themes from the point of view of sustainability and public policy. The world’s urban population in 2009 was approximately 3.4 billion and Asia’s urban population was about 1.72 billion. Between 2010 and 2020, 411 million people will be added to Asian cities (60 % of the growth in the world’s urban population). By 2020, of the world’s urban population of 4.2 billion, approximately 2.2 billion will be in Asia. China and India will contribute 31.3 % of the total world urban population by 2025. Developing Asia’s projected global share of CO2 emissions for energy consumption will increase from 30 % in 2006 to 43 % by 2030. City regions serve as magnets for people, enterprise, and culture, but with urbanisation , the worst form of visible poverty becomes prominent. The Asian region, with a slum population of an estimated 505.5 million people, remains host to over half of the world’s slum population . The book provides information on a comprehensive range of environmental threats faced by the inhabitants of megacities. It also offers a wide and multidisciplinary group of case studies from rapidly growing megacities (with populations of more than 5 million) from developed and developing countries of Asia.
Author : Frauke Kraas,Surinder Aggarwal,Martin Coy,Günter Mertins
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789048134175
As urbanization continues, and even accelerates, scientists estimate that by 2015 the world will have up to 60 ‘megacities’ – urban areas with more than five million inhabitants. With the irresistible economic attractions of urban centers, particularly in developing countries, making the influx of citizens unstoppable, many of humankind’s coming social, economic and political dramas will be played out in megacities. This book shows how geographers and Earth scientists are contributing to a better understanding of megacities. The contributors analyze the impact of socio-economic and political activities on environmental change and vice versa, and identify solutions to the worst problems. They propose ways of improving the management of megacities and achieving a greater degree of sustainability in their development. The goals, of wise use of human and natural resources, risk reduction (both social and environmental) and quality of life enhancement, are agreed upon. But, as this text proves, the means of achieving these ends are varied. Hence, chapters cover an array of topics, from health management in Indian megacities, to planning in New York, to transport solutions for the chronically traffic-choked Bangkok. Authors cover the impact of climate change on megacities, as well as less tangible issues such as socio-political fragmentation in the urban areas of Rio de Janeiro. This exploration of some of the most crucial issues that we face as a species sets out research that is of the utmost importance, with the potential to contribute substantially to global justice and peace – and thereby prosperity.
Author : Ravindra Kumar Srivastava
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811524103
This book offers essential insights into potential catastrophic events that might befall upon the emerging urban landscape in South Asia, and which are due to hazards, risks and vulnerabilities inherent in the region’s geophysical location, as well as due to climate change and unplanned urbanization. It highlights major physio-graphic, demographic, geological and geophysical indicators that are responsible for changing the pattern and trend of urbanization in South Asia – a crucial issue in view of emerging threats of climate change, and changes in the demographic profile. The book addresses the disaster management scenario in South Asia, manifestations of climate change in the region and various urban setups under climate-change-induced risks. Further, it elaborates on the challenges of urbanization-based neo-risks and vulnerabilities, which manifest in the form of slum area growth, piling and littering of waste and filth, new health risks, groundwater contamination, air pollution, highly energy-dependent lifestyles, poverty, socio-economic tensions, etc. It also critically examines the institutional mechanisms for disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation (CCA) and urban governance, and suggests appropriate changes in the governing structure to mitigate these risks. The book draws the attention of urban planners and policymakers to current shortcomings in the administrative and financial structures of local urban bodies. While outlining climate-associated risks and adaptation strategies in South Asia, it also suggests measures for integrating climate change and urban adaption with state's planning processes, and puts forward a risk alleviation platform to bring the risk managers working in different fields together, so that they make concerted efforts to achieve sustainable development. It offers valuable takeaways for researchers, urban planners, those working in industry, consultants, and policymakers.
Author : Partha Dasgupta,Peter Raven,Anna McIvor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108482288
Questions why species are becoming extinct, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend.
Author : Ashok Kumar,Sanjeev Vidyarthi,Poonam Prakash
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000091212
This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in post-independence India. It explores how the nature and orientation of city planning have evolved in India’s changing sociopolitical context over the past hundred or so years. The book situates India’s experience within a historical framework in order to illustrate continuities and disjunctions between the pre- and post-independent Indian laws, policies, and programs for city planning and development. It focuses on the development, scope, and significance of professional planning work in the midst of rapid economic transition, migration, social disparity, and environmental degradation. The volume also highlights the need for inclusive planning processes that can provide clean air, water, and community spaces to large, diverse, and fast growing communities. Detailed and insightful, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of public administration, civil engineering, architecture, geography, economics, and sociology. It will also be useful for policy makers and professionals working in the areas of town and country planning.
Author : Un-Habitat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136556715
Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive. They are like a journey that never ends. Their evolution is determined by their ascent into greatness or their descent into decline. They are the past, the present and the future. Cities contain both order and chaos. In them reside beauty and ugliness, virtue and vice. They can bring out the best or the worst in humankind. They are the physical manifestation of history and culture and incubators of innovation, industry, technology, entrepreneurship and creativity. Cities are the materialization of humanity's noblest ideas, ambitions and aspirations but when not planned or governed properly, can be the repository of society's ills. Cities drive national economies by creating wealth, enhancing social development and providing employment but they can also be the breeding grounds for poverty, exclusion and environmental degradation. The 21st Century is the Century of the City. Half of humanity now lives in cities, and within the next two decades, 60 per cent of the world's people will reside in urban areas. How can city planners and policymakers harmonize the various interests, diversity and inherent contradictions within cities? What ingredients are needed to create harmony between the physical, social, environmental and cultural aspects of a city and the human beings that inhabit it? This report adopts the concept of Harmonious Cities as a theoretical framework in order to understand today's urban world, and also as an operational tool to confront the most important challenges facing urban areas and their development processes. It recognizes that tolerance, diversity, social justice and good governance, all of which are inter-related, are as important to sustainable urban development as physical planning. It addresses national concerns by searching for solutions at the city level. For that purpose, it focuses on three key areas: spatial or regional harmony, which examines the main drivers of urban growth in the developing world and explores the spatial nuances of economic and social policies; social harmony, which presents and analyzes new data on urban inequalities worldwide and describes the types of shelter deprivations experienced by slum dwellers in developing world regions; and environmental harmony, which examines the role of cities in the climate change debate, and the impact of global warming on the most vulnerable cities. The report also assesses the various intangible assets within cities that contribute to harmony, such as cultural heritage, sense of place and memory and the complex set of social and symbolic relationships that give cities meaning. It argues that these intangible assets represent the soul of the city and are as important for harmonious urban development as tangible assets. Harmony within cities, argues the report, is both a journey and a destination. Published with UN-HABITAT
Author : Dr. Abhay Krishna Singh
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781365604324
This book is an endeavor to look into the various aspects of urbanisation and its dynamics. The work offers policy alternatives for the sustainable Urban Planning and Development in less developed States of India.
Author : Ashok K. Dutt,F.J. Costa,Surinder Aggarwal,A.G. Noble
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0792331354
In The Asian City the Asian urbanisation processes, nature and characteristics of the 1990s have been analyzed by countries, by comparing different countries and in an international context. The authors are urban specialists from four continents. This volume has been divided into six parts: Part I Urbanisation in an international context; Part II Comparative urban setting; Part III Urbanisation characteristics by country; Part IV Urban planning; Part V The urban poor, and Part VI Perspectives on urbanization. This work allows the reader to understand Asian urban forms, their evolution, the nature of urbanisation, its impact on economic growth in cities, the living and working conditions of the poor, and urban planning and problems.
