Urbanization in India: Socio-Spatial Issues and Dimensions
Contents: 1. Urbanization in India: A Study of Sociological Implications, Environment and Costs/Suresh Kumar Gigoo and Amit Kumar Soni. 2. The Rise of the Creative Class in Urban India/Anirban Mukherjee. 3. Micro-Analysis of Smart Urbanization in India/Udai Bhan Singh and N.K. Singh. 4. Geospatial Technologies for Various Urban Applications/Susham Biswas. 5. Contextualizing ‘Urban Governance’ in Modern India: The Space for ‘Citizens’/Pradip Kumar Parida. 6. Popularizing Urban Geospatial Studies in an Academically Deficient Curriculum/Suddhasheel Ghosh. 7. Urbanizing in India and Schemes to Implement Electric Vehicles/Subhankar Mazumdar. 8. City Gas Distribution (CGD) in Smart Cities/Sayandeep Chandra. 9. Study of Noise Pollution in Indian Cities Around the Flyovers/Susham Biswas, Anirban Mukherjee, Shruti Bhardwaj, Athar Ullah, Saurabh Tiwary, Sushant Bajpai and Md. Iltaf Zafar.
The book attempts to offer an in-depth understanding of urbanization in India from socio-spatial perspectives. The chapters are variedly oriented in discussing various problems of urbanization, suggesting sustainable solutions to some of the potent problems, and highlighting the changes that urbanism has brought to the daily lives of individuals. This book therefore offers a kaleidoscopic view of urbanization in India and propounds some stimulating reads on unexplored dimensions of the process.
