Urbanization Beyond Municipal Boundaries

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821398401

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Urbanization Beyond Municipal Boundaries by World Bank Pdf

Urbanization beyond Municipal Boundaries informs policy priorities to manage India's urbanization. Incisive analysis of the patterns of India's urbanization using geo-referenced data from various rounds of the population and economic census highlights rapid suburbanization of people and fi rms around the country's largest metropolitan areas. However, the move to the suburbs is accelerated by land and housing shortages in metropolitan cores, coupled with high transport costs between the metropolitan core and its periphery, and much worse infrastructure access and quality for water, electricity, and sanitation in the urban periphery. What are priorities for policy reform? First, investing in India's institutional and informational foundations that can enable land and housing markets to function effi ciently while deregulating land use in urban areas. To achieve this, planning for land use and planning for infrastructure must be coordinated so that densifi cation of metropolitan areas can be accompanied by infrastructure improvements. Second, expanding and delivering better infrastructure services to improve livability. Policy makers need to institute reforms that would help providers recover costs yet reach out to poorer neighborhoods and peripheral areas. Last, strengthening physical connectivity between metropolitan hubs and their peripheries to improve those areas that attract the majority of people and businesses over the medium term. Investments in network infrastructure alongside logistics improvements can facilitate the smoother movement of goods. Land policy, infrastructure services, and connectivity--coordinated improvements in this triad can help India reap dividends from improved spatial equity and greater economic effi ciency that come with urbanization.

Author : The World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821398661

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Urbanization beyond Municipal Boundaries by The World Bank Pdf

This study identifies priority areas for India's policymakers as they try to harness economic efficiency and manage spatial equity associated with urbanization.

Author : Graeme Hugo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351914956

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New Forms of Urbanization by Graeme Hugo Pdf

There is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is an important element in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes. An important element in context is the type of settlement in which people live and work and so, it is vital to be able to categorise people into particular settlements types. This book brings together a leading team of social scientists to present the latest information on urbanization around the world, highlighting examples of development patterns that are not adequately captured by the UN's type of reporting systems and drawing attention to other ways of representing current trends.

Author : Bibek Debroy,Ashley J Tellis,Reece Trevor
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788184006117

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Getting India Back on Track by Bibek Debroy,Ashley J Tellis,Reece Trevor Pdf

Getting India Back on Track brings together some of India’s most accomplished analysts to spur a public debate about the reform agenda the new government should pursue in order to return the country to a path of high growth. It explores the challenges and opportunities faced by one of the most important–yet least understood–nations on earth and convenes some of India’s most leading policymakers to recommend policies in every major sector of the Indian economy. These seventeen focused and concise memoranda offer the next generation of leaders and the general public alike a clear blueprint for India’s future.

Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 0415191963

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Urban Geography by Michael Pacione Pdf

This text is an introduction to the study of towns and cities. The book synthesizes a wealth of material to provide a comprehensive introduction for students of urban geography, drawing on a rich blend of theoretical and empirical information, to advance their knowledge of the city. For the first time in the history of humankind, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is destined to continue. Urban places, towns and cities are of fundamental importance: for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of economic production, distribution and exchange; in the structuring of social reproduction and cultural life; and in the allocation and exercise of power. Even those living beyond the administrative or functional boundaries of a town or city, will have their lifestyle influenced to some degree by a nearby or distant city.

Author : Khee Giap Tan,Tao Oei Lim,Yanjiang Zhang,Isaac Yang En Tan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811211560

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Global Liveable And Smart Cities Index: Ranking Analysis, Simulation And Policy Evaluation by Khee Giap Tan,Tao Oei Lim,Yanjiang Zhang,Isaac Yang En Tan Pdf

A rising proportion of the global population are moving to cities in search of a better standard of living. However, although urbanisation has its benefits, unchecked urbanisation can lead to a host of challenges, such as congestion and limited access to public services. As such, the concept of urban liveability has been garnering more attention from policymakers and academics who are interested in mitigating the negative effects of urbanisation.In this context, the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) has released the 2018 Global Liveable and Smart Cities Index (GLSCI), the third in its series of liveability indices. The GLSCI attempts to measure the liveability of an average resident in a city. More importantly, this year's edition has added considerations to the concept of smart cities and the role that these technologies can play in augmenting the liveability of a city's residents. It also builds on ACI's past liveability indices by expanding the number of cities in the index to 78, notably with African cities for the first time. In addition, this book includes two case studies on liveability. The first one concerns the relationship between a city's liveability, smartness, connectivity, and agglomeration, while the other is a case study on the 99-year lease of public housing in Singapore.

Author : Gail Easley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015042163512

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Staying Inside the Lines by Gail Easley Pdf

Planners can use urban growth boundaries to meet state and local growth goals. This report shows how urban growth boundaries can concentrate new development within mapped areas to ensure efficient delivery of urban services, preserve more open land and farmland, and prevent the costly and detremental effects of urban sprawl. The report defines various types of urban growth areas, discusses the criteria for mapping boundaries for these areas, and tells how to make the boundaries work. It features case studies of communities in four states.

Author : Tim Edensor,Mark Jayne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136629761

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Urban Theory Beyond the West by Tim Edensor,Mark Jayne Pdf

Since the late eighteenth century academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural, and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities in the ‘Global North’. This volume seeks to redress that balance and focuses on theoretical engagements with cities beyond ‘the West’.

Author : Ankit Sikarwar,Aparajita Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031280054

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Peri-Urban Dynamics by Ankit Sikarwar,Aparajita Chattopadhyay Pdf

Urban expansion beyond the city’s administrative boundaries has altered villages to a great extent. These peri-urban villages are experiencing unforeseen changes in demographic, economic, land-use, and environmental characteristics. The concept of peri-urbanization is grabbing the attention of urban planners and policymakers globally. To understand the dynamics of the peri-urban region it is crucial to examine multiple rural and urban characteristics. This book studies major changes in population, land and development with the integration of remotely sensed data and census data for 615 peri-urban villages surrounding Ahmedabad city of India. The chapters of the book are designed to cover key aspects of peri-urban change with geospatial methods. This book offers a comprehensive understanding and importance of analyzing peri-urban dynamics at the smallest spatial unit. It provides a detailed conceptual and methodological framework for the students and researchers to study peri-urbanization as well as for the policymakers to redefine the urban policies.

Author : Inter American Development Bank,United Nations Human Settlements Programme,Development Bank of Latin America
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597823111

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Steering the Metropolis by Inter American Development Bank,United Nations Human Settlements Programme,Development Bank of Latin America Pdf

A distinctive feature of urbanization in the last 50 years is the expansion of urban populations and built development well beyond what was earlier conceived as the city limit, resulting in metropolitan areas. This is challenging the relevance of traditional municipal boundaries, and by extension, traditional governing structures and institutions. "Steering the Metropolis: Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development,” encompasses the reflections of thought and practice leaders on the underlying premises for governing metropolitan space, sectoral adaptations of those premises, and dynamic applications in a wide variety of contexts. Those reflections are structured into three sections. Section 1 discusses the conceptual underpinnings of metropolitan governance, analyzing why political, technical, and administrative arrangements at this level of government are needed. Section 2 deepens the discussion by addressing specific sectoral themes of mobility, land use planning, environmental management, and economic production, as well as crosscutting topics of metropolitan governance finance, and monitoring and evaluation. Section 3 tests the concepts and their sectoral adaptations against the practice, with cases from Africa, America, Asia, and Europe.

Author : United Nations Publications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9211483190

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World Urbanization Prospects by United Nations Publications Pdf

The report presents findings from the 2018 revision of World Urbanization Prospects, which contains the latest estimates of the urban and rural populations or areas from 1950 to 2018 and projections to 2050, as well as estimates of population size from 1950 to 2018 and projections to 2030 for all urban agglomerations with 300,000 inhabitants or more in 2018. The world urban population is at an all-time high, and the share of urban dwellers, is projected to represent two thirds of the global population in 2050. Continued urbanization will bring new opportunities and challenges for sustainable development.

Author : Ivan Turok
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Urban policy
ISBN : 9211326400

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The Evolution of National Urban Policies by Ivan Turok Pdf

Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0415252717

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The City: Land use, structure, and change in the Western city by Michael Pacione Pdf

Author : Taimur Samad,Nancy Lozano-Gracia,Alexandra Panman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821395240

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Colombia Urbanization Review by Taimur Samad,Nancy Lozano-Gracia,Alexandra Panman Pdf

This book provides diagnostic tools to inform policy dialogue and investment priorities on urbanization in Colombia, addresssing the need to deepen economic connectivity, enhance coordination at a regional and metropolitan scale, and foster efficiency and innovativeness in how cities finance themselves.

Author : Nick R. Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452965444

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The End of the Village by Nick R. Smith Pdf

How China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. Centered on the mountainous region of Chongqing, which serves as an experimental site for the country’s new urban development policies, The End of the Village analyzes the radical expansion of urbanization and its consequences for China’s villagers. It reveals a fundamental rewriting of the nation’s social contract, as villages that once organized rural life and guaranteed rural livelihoods are replaced by an increasingly urbanized landscape dominated by state institutions. Throughout this comprehensive study of China’s “urban–rural coordination” policy, Nick R. Smith traces the diminishing autonomy of the country’s rural populations and their subordination to larger urban networks and shared administrative structures. Outside Chongqing’s urban centers, competing forces are at work in reshaping the social, political, and spatial organization of its villages. While municipal planners and policy makers seek to extend state power structures beyond the boundaries of the city, village leaders and inhabitants try to maintain control over their communities’ uncertain futures through strategies such as collectivization, shareholding, real estate development, and migration. As China seeks to rectify the development crises of previous decades through rapid urban growth, such drastic transformations threaten to displace existing ways of life for more than 600 million residents. Offering an unprecedented look at the country’s contentious shift in urban planning and policy, The End of the Village exposes the precarious future of rural life in China and suggests a critical reappraisal of how we think about urbanization.