Urbanisation and Urban Planning in India : Vision and Reality
Contents: I. Urbanisation and urban vision: 1. Urbanisation and urban planning in India: vision for sustainable urbanisation and urban development/R.N. Dubey. 2. Beyond the present: vision of a new urban future for South Asia/R.P. Misra. 3. Varanasi, a heritage city of India: perspectives, visions and strategies for sustainable urban development/Rana P.B. Singh. 4. Urban expansion in context to global economy: some experiences from underdeveloped regions/Anand Prasad Mishra. 5. Urban pattern in India: some reinterpretations/Bikramaditya Kumar Choudhary. 6. Metropolitisation in India -- trends and problems/Jitender Singh Saroha. II. Urban planning: 7. National urban information system: Govt. of India Scheme for 3 Tiered GIS database in urban planning/J.B. Kshirsagar and Pawan Kumar. 8. Botanical considerations in town planning and cardiovascular health/S. Dwivedi and Bineet Sinha. 9. Application of GIS for identification of landfill sites: a case study of Delhi/Suraj Mal. 10. Application of RS and GIS for urban green space mapping: a case study of Hisar City, Haryana/Anurag, Kartar Singh, R.S. Hooda Dilbag Singh and Prem Prashant. 11. Identification of ground water potential areas in Jaipur city/Parthsarthy Sharma. 12. Urbanization scenario and development planning in Madhya Pradesh/Sunil Singh and Bhagwat Pravin. III. Urban governance: 13. Decentralized urban governance in Haryana: trends, policies and strategies/Suresh Misra. 14. Reforms for good urban governance and management: some experiences in India/Nimish Jha. 15. Governance and local administration: Post 74th Constitutional Amendment/Lalit Kumar. IV. Urban reality: 16. Urban wastewater treatment and pollution control by microorganisms: towards promoting its application in developing countries/Anu and R.B. Singh. 17. Vehicular traffic strategy in National Capital Region -- A case study/Hasan Ansari. 18. Urban environment and health: chronic cardiovascular diseases/Amitesh Aggarwal. 19. Urban air pollution in India: issues and challenges/Mohinder Singh Kadayan, G.S. Chauhan and Ravi Chanchal. 20. Role of waste pickers in urban solid waste management in Delhi/Subhash Anand. 21. Population dynamics and settlements in Bhiwani District: strategies for sustainable development/K.V. Chamar, Sumitra Bairagi and Purushotam. 22. Haryana: Urban--rural differentials in literacy/Sneh Sangwan and Randhir Suingh Sangwan. List of contributors. Index.
"Even in India, cities are associated with higher income, improved health, higher literacy, improved quality of life and are considered to be engine of economic growth. Despite many benefits, urbanisation, which is continuous concentration of economic activities and people in urban areas, has left many scars on the face of cities. Slums, poor housing, lack of urban infrastructure and sanitation facilities, unsatisfactory waste disposal mechanism and environmental degradation have made our cities unliveable. Still cities are attraction for millions of rural folks. If urban planners are to be believed then this trend will continue in future too and it is expected that urban population in India would be 60 percent by 2050 from 28 percent in 2001. Hence, we can estimate the gravity of the problem. All these facts call for a clear vision for the future cities and a paradigm shift in the policies of urbanization and urban planning in India.
This book is indeed a small contribution in this direction. It consists of 22 articles bringing together varieties of issues related to urbanization and urban planning in India. Along with analyzing the process of urbanization in explores clear vision and strategies for future cities and villages. The book has several articles with different issues on application of Geographical Information System and Remote Sensing (GIS and RS) techniques for spatial planning of cities and towns. It also examines urban governance in the light of 74th Constitutional Amendment Act (CAA) citing success story from different parts of the country. Finally, it examines various urban problems with interdisciplinary approaches. The book has articles from a number of eminent geographers, urban and regional planners, medical practitioners, political scientists, public administrators etc.
The book would serve the need of research scholars, planners, policy makers, administrators working in the field of urban studies."
